1 Notmuch 0.26 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
10 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
11 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
14 Command Line Interface
15 ----------------------
17 Support for re-indexing existing messages
19 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
20 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
21 change the way specific messages are indexed.
23 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
24 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
25 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
27 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
29 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
31 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
33 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
34 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
35 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
36 the setting of `new.tags`.
38 --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
40 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
41 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
42 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
47 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
49 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
50 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
51 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
52 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
53 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
54 config set index.decrypt true".
56 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
57 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
58 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
59 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
60 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
61 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
62 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
63 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
65 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
66 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
67 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
68 this feature without considering the security of your index.
73 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
75 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
76 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
77 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
78 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
80 New functions to count files
82 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
83 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
85 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
87 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
88 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
89 possibility of NULL was not documented.
91 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
93 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
94 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
95 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
96 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
97 operator may decide to change from message to message.
102 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
104 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
105 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
107 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
109 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
111 Add python bindings for notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*
113 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
118 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
119 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
121 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
122 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
123 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
124 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
125 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
126 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
128 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
129 ===========================
134 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
135 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
138 Command Line Interface
139 ----------------------
141 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
142 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
145 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
146 ===========================
148 Command Line Interface
149 ----------------------
151 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
152 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
157 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
160 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
161 ===========================
166 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
169 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
170 =========================
175 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
177 Skip HTML tags when indexing
179 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
181 Command Line Interface
182 ----------------------
184 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
186 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
191 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
193 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
194 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
197 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
202 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
204 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
205 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
207 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
209 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
210 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
213 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
215 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
217 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
219 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
220 ===========================
222 Command Line Interface
223 ----------------------
225 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
230 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
232 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
233 ===========================
238 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
240 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
241 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
244 Command Line Interface
245 ----------------------
247 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
249 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
251 Fix bug in dump header
253 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
254 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
255 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
260 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
262 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
263 =========================
268 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
270 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
273 Command Line Interface
274 ----------------------
276 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
278 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
279 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
280 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
282 New default output format to 3
284 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
285 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
286 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
287 default format changes.
292 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
294 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
295 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
296 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
297 or tree view to resume.
299 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
300 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
301 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
304 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
305 they were when you postponed in the final message.
309 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
310 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
311 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
312 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
313 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
317 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
318 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
319 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
320 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
321 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
322 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
326 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
327 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
329 Stop display of `application/*` parts
331 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
332 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
333 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
334 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
335 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
336 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
337 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
338 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
341 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
343 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
344 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
345 only tagged the current thread.)
347 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
349 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
350 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
351 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
353 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
355 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
356 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
357 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
358 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
359 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
360 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
361 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
363 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
365 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
366 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
367 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
372 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
374 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
377 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
379 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
382 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
383 ===========================
388 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
390 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
391 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
392 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
395 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
396 ===========================
398 Command Line Interface
399 ----------------------
401 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
406 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
408 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
409 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
410 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
412 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
413 ===========================
418 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
419 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
421 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
422 ===========================
424 Command Line Interface
425 ----------------------
427 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
429 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
430 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
431 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
436 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
438 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
439 ===========================
441 Command Line Interface
442 ----------------------
444 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
449 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
451 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
452 ===========================
457 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
459 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
460 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
461 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
463 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
465 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
467 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
468 ===========================
473 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
475 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
480 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
482 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
483 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
484 the original colours.
486 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
487 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
489 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
491 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
492 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
493 bug, and hence the test.
495 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
496 =========================
498 General (Xapian 1.4+)
499 ---------------------
501 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
503 Support for single argument date: queries
505 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
507 Support for blocking opens
509 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
510 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
512 Support for named queries
514 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
515 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
516 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
523 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
524 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
525 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
526 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
528 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
530 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
535 Support for compile time options
537 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
538 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
541 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
543 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
544 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
545 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
546 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
547 scripts to ignore it.
552 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
554 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
555 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
556 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
558 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
559 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
560 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
561 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
562 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
563 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
564 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
566 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
567 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
570 Make internal address completion customizable
572 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
573 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
574 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
575 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
578 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
580 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
581 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
582 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
583 completion for the current buffer.
585 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
586 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
587 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
591 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
592 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
593 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
594 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
595 will be added instead.
597 Face customization is easier
599 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
600 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
601 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
602 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
604 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
609 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
614 Go bindings moved to contrib
616 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
618 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
620 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
621 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
623 The same issue occured with sort modes.
625 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
626 ===========================
633 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
634 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
636 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
638 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
640 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
641 ===========================
646 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
648 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
653 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
658 Use `env` to locate perl.
663 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
665 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
667 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
669 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
671 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
672 =========================
679 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
680 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
682 Limited support for S/MIME messages
684 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
685 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
686 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
691 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
692 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
693 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
695 Command Line Interface
696 ----------------------
698 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
700 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
705 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
710 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
712 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
713 parts are now included in replies.
715 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
716 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
717 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
718 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
720 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
722 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
724 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
726 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
727 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
728 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
729 forwards only the current message.
731 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
733 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
734 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
735 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
736 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
737 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
738 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
739 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
740 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
743 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
744 longer generate empty buffers
746 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
747 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
748 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
749 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
750 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
752 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
754 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
757 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
759 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
762 Address completion improvements
764 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
765 you previously configured one, customize the variable
766 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
767 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
768 interactive address completion.
770 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
772 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
773 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
774 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
779 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
780 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
781 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
787 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
788 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
789 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
790 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
791 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
792 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
794 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
795 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
796 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
797 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
798 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
799 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
801 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
802 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
804 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
805 =========================
810 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
813 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
815 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
816 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
817 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
819 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
820 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
822 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
823 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
824 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
826 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
828 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
829 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
830 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
831 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
832 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
833 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
838 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
839 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
842 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
845 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
847 Command Line Interface
848 ----------------------
850 Database revision tracking
852 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
853 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
854 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
855 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
857 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
859 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
860 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
861 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
862 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
863 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
864 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
865 manual page for further information.
870 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
872 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
873 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
875 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
877 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
878 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
879 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
881 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
883 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
885 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
886 customization as well.
888 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
890 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
892 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
894 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
896 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
897 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
898 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
899 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
901 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
903 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
904 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
905 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
906 this variable to 10000.
911 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
912 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
914 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
916 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
917 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
918 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
919 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
920 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
921 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
922 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
923 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
924 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
927 Database revision tracking
929 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
930 query parser and the new function
931 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
933 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
937 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
938 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
939 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
940 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
945 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
947 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
948 ===========================
953 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
955 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
956 ===========================
961 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
963 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
964 =========================
966 Command-Line Interface
967 ----------------------
969 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
971 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
972 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
973 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
975 Path to gpg is now configurable
977 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
978 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
983 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
985 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
990 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
995 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1000 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1002 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1003 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1005 New error logging facility
1007 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1008 output formerly printed to stderr.
1010 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1012 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1014 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1016 Fix for rounding of seconds
1021 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1023 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1024 docmumentation has been removed.
1026 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1028 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1029 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1034 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1035 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1036 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1041 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1042 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1043 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1044 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1045 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1046 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1049 git checkout config origin/config
1051 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1053 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1054 =========================
1059 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1060 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1061 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1062 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1063 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1064 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1065 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1067 Command-Line Interface
1068 ----------------------
1070 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1072 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1073 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1074 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1075 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1076 script callers should still check the return value.
1078 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1080 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1081 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1082 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1083 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1084 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1085 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1086 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1088 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1090 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1091 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1092 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1094 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1096 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1097 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1098 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1099 currently unmaintained.
1101 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1103 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1104 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1105 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1106 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1108 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1110 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1111 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1112 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1113 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1114 count of duplicate addresses.
1119 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1121 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1122 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1123 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1126 Improved handling of the unread tag
1128 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1129 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1130 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1131 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1132 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1133 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1134 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1136 Expanded default saved search settings
1138 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1139 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1141 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1143 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1144 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1145 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1147 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1149 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1150 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1151 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1152 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1153 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1154 the variable for details.
1159 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1161 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1162 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1163 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1164 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1166 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1168 Previously, library users were required to call
1169 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1170 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1171 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1172 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1173 too out of date for that API.
1175 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1177 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1178 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1179 atomic section will be aborted.
1181 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1182 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1184 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1186 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1187 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1188 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1189 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1190 messages into the same thread.
1195 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1196 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1197 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1198 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1199 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1200 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1205 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1206 from the config file. Use something like:
1210 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1211 "footer": "</body></html>",
1220 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1225 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1226 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1227 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1229 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1230 ===========================
1235 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1237 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1239 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1241 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1242 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1244 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1246 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1249 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1250 ===========================
1252 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1257 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1259 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1261 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1263 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1265 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1271 Use --quick when starting emacs
1273 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1275 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1277 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1279 Command-Line Interface
1280 ----------------------
1282 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1283 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1288 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1290 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1291 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1293 Fix for phrase indexing
1295 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1296 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1297 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1302 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1304 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1305 unintentionally removed.
1307 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1308 =========================
1313 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1314 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1315 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1316 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1317 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1318 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1319 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1320 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1321 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1327 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1329 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1330 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1331 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1332 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1333 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1334 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1335 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1336 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1338 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1340 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1341 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1342 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1343 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1346 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1348 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1349 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1350 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1351 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1352 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1353 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1354 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1359 Notmuch database upgrade
1361 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1362 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1363 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1364 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1365 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1366 released version of Notmuch before now.
1368 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1370 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1371 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1372 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1373 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1375 Message header parsing changes
1377 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1378 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1379 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1380 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1381 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1382 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1384 Command-Line Interface
1385 ----------------------
1387 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1389 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1391 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1393 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1395 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1397 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1398 user does not want it.
1400 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1402 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1403 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1404 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1405 support formatted output.
1407 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1409 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1410 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1411 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1419 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1420 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1421 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1422 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1423 `~/.emacs` with these.
1425 Changed format for saved searches
1427 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1428 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1429 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1430 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1433 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1434 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1435 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1436 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1438 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1439 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1440 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1442 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1443 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1444 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1445 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1446 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1448 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1450 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1451 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1452 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1454 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1456 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1457 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1458 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1459 message had been unread).
1461 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1462 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1463 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1464 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1466 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1467 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1468 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1470 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1471 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1472 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1473 to tags already present.
1477 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1478 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1479 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1480 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1481 these differ from each other.
1482 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1484 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1486 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1487 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1488 for these Emacs versions.
1490 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1492 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1493 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1495 Bug fixes for sender identities
1497 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1498 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1499 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1501 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1503 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1504 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1505 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1506 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1508 Reply pushes mark before signature
1510 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1511 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1512 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1514 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1516 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1517 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1523 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1524 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1526 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1527 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1528 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1529 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1531 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1532 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1533 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1534 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1535 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1537 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1539 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1540 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1542 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1543 =========================
1545 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1546 ---------------------------------------
1548 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1549 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1550 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1551 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1552 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1553 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1554 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1558 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1559 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1561 Command-Line Interface
1562 ----------------------
1564 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1566 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1567 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1568 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1569 print for each message.
1571 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1572 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1573 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1574 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1576 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1578 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1579 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1580 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1582 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1584 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1585 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1586 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1587 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1589 `notmuch compact` command
1591 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1592 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1593 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1594 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1595 move the compacted database into place.
1600 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1602 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1603 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1604 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1605 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1606 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1607 and multiple threads.
1609 Using `notmuch-tree`
1611 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1613 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1614 search, show and tree mode itself)
1616 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1619 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1620 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1622 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1624 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1625 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1626 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1627 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1628 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1629 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1630 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1632 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1634 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1635 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1636 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1637 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1638 thread when the search was performed.
1640 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1642 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1643 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1644 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1646 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1648 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1649 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1652 Built-in help improvements
1654 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1655 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1656 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1658 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1660 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1661 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1662 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1664 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1666 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1667 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1669 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1671 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1672 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1673 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1674 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1676 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1678 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1679 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1680 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1681 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1683 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1685 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1686 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1687 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1689 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1691 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1692 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1693 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1695 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1697 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1698 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1699 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1700 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1701 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1703 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1705 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1706 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1707 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1708 the body part of the message.
1713 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1714 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1715 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1717 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1718 =========================
1720 Command-Line Interface
1721 ----------------------
1723 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1725 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1726 folder and notmuch index.
1728 `notmuch count --batch` option
1730 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1731 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1733 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1735 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1736 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1737 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1740 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1742 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1743 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1744 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1745 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1746 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1749 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1751 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1752 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1754 Top level option to specify configuration file
1756 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1757 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1759 Bash command-line completion
1761 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1762 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1763 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1764 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1765 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1766 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1767 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1768 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1769 bash-completion package.
1771 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1776 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1778 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1779 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1780 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1781 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1782 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1783 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1784 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1785 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1787 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1789 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1790 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1791 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1793 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1795 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1796 previous thread in the search results.
1798 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1800 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1801 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1803 Faster search and show
1805 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1806 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1807 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1808 threads should show faster.
1812 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1813 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1814 in question was now removed from this release.
1819 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1820 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1825 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1827 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1828 ===========================
1833 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1835 Internal test framework changes
1836 -------------------------------
1838 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1839 being unimplemented.
1841 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1842 ===========================
1844 Internal test framework changes
1845 -------------------------------
1847 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1848 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1850 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1851 =========================
1856 Date range search support
1858 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1859 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1860 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1861 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1862 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1865 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1867 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1868 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1869 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1870 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1871 but may be removed in a future release.
1873 Command-Line Interface
1874 ----------------------
1876 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1878 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1879 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1881 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1883 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1884 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1885 officially deprecated.
1887 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1889 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1890 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1891 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1893 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1895 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1896 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1899 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1900 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1901 dump/restore format.
1903 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1905 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1906 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1907 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1909 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1911 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1912 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1913 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1915 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1917 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1918 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1919 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1920 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1925 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1927 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1928 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1929 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1930 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1932 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1934 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1935 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1936 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1937 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1938 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1939 the behavior of this, see
1940 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1941 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1943 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1944 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1945 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1947 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1949 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1950 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1953 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1955 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1956 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1957 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1958 simply displayed in place of the message.
1960 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1962 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1963 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1965 Improved text/calendar content handling
1967 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1968 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1969 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1970 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1972 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1974 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1975 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1976 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1977 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1979 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1981 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1982 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1983 for HTML email containing images.
1985 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1987 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1989 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1991 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1994 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1996 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1997 the point where it was.
1999 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2001 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2002 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2003 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2004 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2005 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2007 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2009 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2010 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2011 thread instead of the message id.
2013 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2014 -----------------------------
2016 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2017 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2018 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2019 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2020 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2021 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2022 further details and installation.
2027 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2029 Internal test framework changes
2030 -------------------------------
2032 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2034 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2035 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2036 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2037 can result in buggy behavior.
2039 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2040 =========================
2045 Maildir tag synchronization
2047 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2048 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2049 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2050 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2051 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2052 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2055 Command-Line Interface
2056 ----------------------
2058 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2059 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2060 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2061 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2062 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2068 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2070 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2072 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2073 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2074 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2076 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2078 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2079 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2080 span multiple lines.
2082 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2084 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2085 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2086 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2087 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2088 inside the result or message.
2090 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2092 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2093 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2095 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2096 user-specified formatting
2098 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2099 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2100 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2101 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2102 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2104 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2105 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2107 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2108 ===========================
2113 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2114 compilation error for this contrib package.
2116 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2117 ===========================
2122 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2124 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2125 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2126 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2127 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2129 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2130 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2133 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2134 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2135 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2136 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2139 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2141 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2144 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2145 =========================
2147 Command-Line Interface
2148 ----------------------
2152 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2153 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2154 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2155 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2157 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2158 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2159 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2160 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2164 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2165 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2167 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2168 tag in your query, for example:
2170 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2172 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2173 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2175 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2176 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2178 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2180 Raw show format changes
2182 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2183 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2184 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2185 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2186 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2187 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2188 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2189 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2191 Listing configuration items
2193 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2199 Changes to tagging interface
2201 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2202 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2203 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2204 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2205 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2206 for more information.
2208 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2209 may need to update in custom configurations.
2211 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2213 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2214 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2215 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2216 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2219 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2220 -----------------------------
2222 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2223 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2224 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2225 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2226 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2227 contrib/ from now on.
2232 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2233 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2235 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2236 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2238 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2239 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2240 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2242 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2243 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2245 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2246 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2247 returning the new database object or directory object.
2254 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2255 compatible with go 1.
2257 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2258 =========================
2260 Command-Line Interface
2261 ----------------------
2265 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2266 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2267 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2268 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2270 Mail store folder/file ignore
2272 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2273 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2274 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2276 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2277 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2279 Unified help and manual pages
2281 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2282 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2285 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2287 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2288 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2296 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2297 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2298 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2299 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2301 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2303 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2304 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2306 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2309 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2310 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2311 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2313 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2315 should be changed to:
2317 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2319 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2321 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2322 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2324 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2326 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2327 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2328 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2329 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2330 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2331 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2335 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2336 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2337 of Mailing List Archives.
2339 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2341 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2342 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2345 Show view archiving key binding changes
2347 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2348 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2349 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2350 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2351 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2354 Support text/calendar MIME type
2356 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2359 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2361 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2362 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2363 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2364 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2366 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2368 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2369 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2370 messages blue by default in the search view.
2374 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2375 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2382 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2385 Python bindings changes
2386 -----------------------
2388 Python 3.2 compatibility
2390 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2392 Added missing unicode conversions
2394 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2395 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2396 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2401 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2403 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2404 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2405 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2406 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2407 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2409 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2410 ===========================
2415 Fix error handling in python bindings
2417 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2418 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2419 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2420 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2422 Quote MML tags in replies
2424 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2425 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2426 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2427 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2428 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2429 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2430 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2431 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2433 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2434 =========================
2436 Command-Line Interface
2437 ----------------------
2441 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2442 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2443 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2444 importing new messages into the database.
2446 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2448 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2449 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2450 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2455 Automatic tag query optimization
2457 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2458 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2459 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2461 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2463 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2464 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2465 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2470 Reduction of memory leaks
2472 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2473 and fixed in this release.
2480 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2481 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2482 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2485 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2487 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2488 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2489 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2492 Improvements in saved search management
2494 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2495 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2496 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2498 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2500 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2501 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2502 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2504 New face for crypto parts headers
2506 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2507 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2508 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2511 Use space as default thousands separator
2513 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2514 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2515 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2517 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2518 buttonized id: links
2520 New function notmuch-show-advance
2522 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2523 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2524 be bound to SPC with:
2526 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2528 Various performance improvements
2533 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2534 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2537 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2538 ===========================
2543 Fix crash in python bindings
2545 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2546 for some, but not all users.
2548 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2549 ===========================
2554 Fix `--help` argument
2556 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2557 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2558 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2560 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2561 =========================
2563 New build and testing features
2564 ------------------------------
2566 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2567 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2568 prerequisites is improved.
2570 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2572 New command-line features
2573 -------------------------
2575 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2577 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2578 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2581 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2583 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2584 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2585 favour of using stdout.
2587 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2589 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2590 limit the number of results shown.
2592 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2594 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2595 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2598 New emacs UI features
2599 ---------------------
2601 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2603 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2604 starting with "tag:".
2606 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2608 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2609 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2611 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2613 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2615 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2617 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2618 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2623 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2625 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2627 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2628 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2629 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2630 requires a database rebuild:
2632 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2633 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2635 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2637 New collection of add-on tools
2638 ------------------------------
2640 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2641 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2642 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2645 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2647 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2648 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2649 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2651 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2652 ========================
2654 New, general features
2655 ---------------------
2657 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2659 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2660 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2661 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2662 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2663 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2670 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2671 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2673 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2677 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2678 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2679 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2682 Python bindings changes
2683 -----------------------
2685 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2687 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2688 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2689 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2690 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2691 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2692 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2694 Ruby bindings changes
2695 ---------------------
2697 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2698 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2699 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2700 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2705 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2707 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2708 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2710 Reply formatting cleanup
2711 ------------------------
2713 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2714 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2716 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2717 ========================
2719 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2721 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2722 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2723 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2724 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2727 Improved Build system portability
2729 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2730 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2731 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2733 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2735 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2737 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2739 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2740 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2741 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2743 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2744 ========================
2746 Vim interface improvements
2747 --------------------------
2749 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2751 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2752 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2753 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2754 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2755 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2757 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2759 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2760 * fix compose temp file name
2762 Python Bindings changes
2763 -----------------------
2765 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2767 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2768 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2770 Build-System improvements
2771 -------------------------
2773 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2775 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2778 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2779 ==========================
2784 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2786 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2787 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2789 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2790 =======================
2792 New, general features
2793 ---------------------
2795 Folder-based searching
2797 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2798 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2799 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2803 For example, one might use things such as:
2809 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2810 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2812 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2813 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2814 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2815 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2817 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2818 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2819 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2822 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2823 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2825 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2827 Support for PGP/MIME
2829 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2830 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2831 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2833 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2835 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2836 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2838 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2839 notmuch will receive these tags.
2841 New command-line features
2842 -------------------------
2844 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2846 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2847 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2849 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2851 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2852 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2853 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2855 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2857 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2858 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2859 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2860 which parts a signature part applies).
2862 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2864 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2865 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2866 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2867 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2868 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2871 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2873 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2874 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2875 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2876 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2877 by translating it internally to the new call.
2879 Performance improvements
2880 ------------------------
2882 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2884 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2885 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2886 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2888 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2889 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2891 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2893 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2894 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2895 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2897 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2898 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2899 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2900 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2902 Faster initial indexing
2904 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2905 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2906 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2908 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2910 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2911 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2912 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2913 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2915 New emacs-interface features
2916 ----------------------------
2918 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2920 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2921 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2922 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2923 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2924 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2925 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2927 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2929 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2930 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2931 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2932 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2934 User-selectable From address
2936 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2937 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2938 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2939 will prompt for the from address to use.
2941 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2942 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2943 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2945 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2946 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2947 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2950 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2952 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2953 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2955 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2957 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2959 ----- Original Message -----
2961 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2962 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2963 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2964 citations work much like conventional citations.
2966 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2968 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2969 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2970 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2971 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2972 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2974 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2975 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2977 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2979 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2980 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2981 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2983 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2985 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2986 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2987 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2988 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2989 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2991 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2993 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2996 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2998 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3000 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3002 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3005 Vim interface improvements
3006 --------------------------
3008 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3010 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3011 * Implementing archive in show view
3012 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3013 * Add delete commands
3016 Bindings improvements
3017 ---------------------
3019 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3021 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3022 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3024 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3026 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3030 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3031 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3032 `list(Messages)` works now
3033 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3035 These allow, for example:
3037 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3039 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3041 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3047 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3049 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3052 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3054 New build-system features
3055 -------------------------
3057 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3059 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3060 the configure script from some other directory:
3067 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3069 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3070 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3071 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3072 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3073 manual invocation of configure.
3075 New test-suite feature
3076 ----------------------
3078 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3080 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3081 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3082 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3083 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3084 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3087 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3089 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3090 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3091 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3092 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3093 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3094 are updated to take advantage of this.
3096 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3098 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3099 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3100 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3101 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3107 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3109 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3110 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3111 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3113 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3115 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3117 to:user@elsewhere.com
3119 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3121 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3123 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3125 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3126 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3127 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3130 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3131 from the Received headers in some cases
3133 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3134 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3136 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3138 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3140 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3142 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3143 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3144 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3146 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3147 -------------------------
3149 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3151 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3152 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3153 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3155 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3157 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3158 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3159 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3162 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3164 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3165 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3166 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3167 fixed to avoid this bug.
3169 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3171 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3172 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3174 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3175 ========================
3177 New, general features
3178 ---------------------
3180 Maildir-flag synchronization
3182 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3183 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3192 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3194 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3195 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3196 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3197 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3199 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3200 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3201 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3202 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3205 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3207 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3208 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3209 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3211 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3212 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3214 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3215 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3217 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3218 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3219 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3221 New library features
3222 --------------------
3224 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3226 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3227 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3228 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3229 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3231 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3232 message with the new function:
3234 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3236 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3237 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3238 over all available filenames for a given message.
3240 New command-line features
3241 -------------------------
3243 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3245 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3246 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3247 access to the mail store itself.
3249 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3250 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3251 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3252 name of a script containing:
3254 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3256 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3257 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3263 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3265 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3267 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3269 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3270 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3271 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3272 now produces nothing).
3274 Emacs interface improvements
3275 ----------------------------
3277 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3279 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3281 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3283 Display current thread subject in a header line
3285 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3287 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3289 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3290 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3291 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3292 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3293 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3294 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3295 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3297 Vim interface improvements
3298 --------------------------
3300 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3302 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3303 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3309 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3311 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3312 ========================
3314 New command-line features
3315 -------------------------
3317 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3319 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3320 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3321 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3323 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3324 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3325 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3326 scripts. For example:
3328 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3329 <operations-on> "$file"
3332 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3334 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3335 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3336 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3337 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3338 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3339 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3341 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3343 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3344 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3345 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3346 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3348 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3350 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3351 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3352 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3353 default rather than Bcc.
3355 New library features
3356 --------------------
3358 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3360 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3361 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3366 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3368 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3369 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3370 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3371 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3372 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3373 notmuch customize interface.
3375 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3377 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3378 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3379 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3380 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3382 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3384 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3385 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3386 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3387 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3389 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3391 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3392 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3393 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3394 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3395 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3396 notmuch customize interface.
3398 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3400 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3401 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3402 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3403 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3404 notmuch customize interface.
3406 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3408 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3409 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3410 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3411 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3414 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3416 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3417 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3418 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3421 New build-system features
3422 -------------------------
3424 Various portability fixes have been applied
3426 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3427 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3428 more portable than ever before.
3430 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3432 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3433 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3434 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3436 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3437 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3438 automatically run ldconfig.
3440 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3441 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3442 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3444 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3445 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3446 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3447 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3449 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3451 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3452 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3453 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3454 used in the resulting Makefile.
3456 New test-suite features
3457 -----------------------
3459 New modularization of test suite
3461 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3462 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3463 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3464 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3465 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3466 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3467 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3468 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3470 New testing of emacs interface
3472 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3473 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3474 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3475 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3476 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3477 database via the FCC setting.
3482 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3484 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3485 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3486 persistent error of the form:
3488 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3490 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3491 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3493 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3495 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3496 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3497 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3499 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3501 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3502 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3503 parsing the notmuch results).
3505 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3507 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3510 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3511 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3512 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3517 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3519 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3520 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3521 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3522 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3523 the emacs interface.
3525 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3527 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3528 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3529 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3531 Python-binding fixes
3532 --------------------
3534 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3536 Debian-specific fixes
3537 ---------------------
3539 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3541 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3542 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3543 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3546 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3547 ==========================
3552 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3554 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3555 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3556 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3557 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3559 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3561 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3562 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3563 want notmuch to crash.
3568 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3570 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3571 directory does not exist
3576 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3578 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3579 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3581 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3582 ========================
3584 New command-line features
3585 -------------------------
3587 User-configurable tags for new messages
3589 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3590 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3591 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3592 to specify this value.
3594 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3596 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3597 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3598 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3600 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3602 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3603 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3605 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3607 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3608 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3609 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3610 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3611 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3614 Indication of author names that match a search
3616 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3617 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3618 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3619 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3620 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3621 messages in the thread are listed first.
3623 New: Python bindings
3624 --------------------
3626 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3627 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3628 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3629 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3631 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3632 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3633 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3636 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3637 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3638 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3640 Emacs interface improvements
3641 ----------------------------
3643 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3645 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3646 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3647 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3648 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3649 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3650 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3651 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3652 but without any of the disadvantages).
3654 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3655 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3656 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3659 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3660 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3661 instead running something like:
3663 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3665 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3666 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3667 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3670 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3672 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3673 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3674 tweaked by the user.
3676 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3677 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3678 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3681 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3682 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3683 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3686 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3688 This support currently relies on an external program,
3689 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3690 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3691 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3692 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3693 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3696 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3697 notmuch) is available via:
3699 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3701 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3702 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3703 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3705 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3707 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3708 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3709 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3710 making this automatic in a future release.
3712 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3714 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3715 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3716 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3717 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3718 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3719 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3722 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3724 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3725 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3726 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3728 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3730 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3731 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3732 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3734 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3735 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3736 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3737 other representation.
3739 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3740 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3743 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3745 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3746 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3747 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3749 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3750 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3751 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3753 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3755 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3756 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3757 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3758 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3759 to display the search result.
3761 More flexible handling of header visibility
3763 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3764 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3765 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3766 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3767 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3768 with the 'h' keybinding.
3770 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3771 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3772 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3774 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3776 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3778 Customizable formatting of search results
3780 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3781 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3782 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3784 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3786 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3788 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3793 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3795 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3796 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3797 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3798 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3804 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3806 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3807 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3809 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3811 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3812 accept are now all accepted.
3817 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3819 Better display of output from failed tests
3821 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3822 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3824 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3825 ========================
3827 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3828 detailed release notes this time!
3830 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3831 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3833 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3834 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3835 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3836 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3843 Better guessing of From: header
3845 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3846 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3847 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3848 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3849 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3852 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3854 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3855 guaranteed to match all messages.
3857 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3859 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3860 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3861 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3862 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3863 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3866 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3869 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3870 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3871 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3872 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3877 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3879 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3880 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3881 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3882 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3884 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3886 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3888 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3889 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3890 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3892 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3894 Previously, the user might see:
3896 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3900 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3902 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3903 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3904 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3905 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3907 Emacs client features
3908 ---------------------
3910 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3912 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3913 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3914 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3915 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3916 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3918 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3921 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3922 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3923 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3924 search with the '*' binding.
3926 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3928 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3929 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3932 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3934 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3935 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3936 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3938 Build-system features
3939 ---------------------
3941 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3943 Add support to configure for many standard options
3945 We include actual support for:
3947 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3949 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3951 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3952 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3954 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3955 separate "make install-emacs"
3957 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3959 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3960 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3961 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3963 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3966 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3967 ========================
3969 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3971 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3972 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3974 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3975 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3976 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3977 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3978 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3979 tags from messages in a thread.
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