1 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
2 ===========================
7 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
8 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
11 Command Line Interface
12 ----------------------
14 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
15 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
18 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
19 ===========================
21 Command Line Interface
22 ----------------------
24 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
25 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
30 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
33 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
34 ===========================
39 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
42 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
43 =========================
48 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
50 Skip HTML tags when indexing
52 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
54 Command Line Interface
55 ----------------------
57 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
59 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
64 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
66 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
67 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
70 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
75 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
77 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
78 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
80 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
82 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
83 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
86 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
88 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
90 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
92 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
93 ===========================
95 Command Line Interface
96 ----------------------
98 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
103 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
105 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
106 ===========================
111 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
113 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
114 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
117 Command Line Interface
118 ----------------------
120 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
122 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
124 Fix bug in dump header
126 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
127 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
128 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
133 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
135 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
136 =========================
141 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
143 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
146 Command Line Interface
147 ----------------------
149 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
151 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
152 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
153 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
155 New default output format to 3
157 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
158 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
159 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
160 default format changes.
165 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
167 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
168 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
169 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
170 or tree view to resume.
172 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
173 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
174 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
177 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
178 they were when you postponed in the final message.
182 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
183 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
184 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
185 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
186 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
190 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
191 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
192 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
193 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
194 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
195 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
199 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
200 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
202 Stop display of `application/*` parts
204 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
205 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
206 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
207 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
208 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
209 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
210 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
211 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
214 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
216 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
217 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
218 only tagged the current thread.)
220 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
222 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
223 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
224 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
226 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
228 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
229 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
230 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
231 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
232 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
233 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
234 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
236 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
238 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
239 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
240 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
245 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
247 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
250 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
252 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
255 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
256 ===========================
261 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
263 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
264 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
265 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
268 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
269 ===========================
271 Command Line Interface
272 ----------------------
274 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
279 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
281 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
282 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
283 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
285 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
286 ===========================
291 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
292 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
294 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
295 ===========================
297 Command Line Interface
298 ----------------------
300 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
302 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
303 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
304 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
309 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
311 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
312 ===========================
314 Command Line Interface
315 ----------------------
317 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
322 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
324 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
325 ===========================
330 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
332 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
333 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
334 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
336 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
338 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
340 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
341 ===========================
346 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
348 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
353 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
355 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
356 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
357 the original colours.
359 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
360 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
362 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
364 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
365 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
366 bug, and hence the test.
368 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
369 =========================
371 General (Xapian 1.4+)
372 ---------------------
374 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
376 Support for single argument date: queries
378 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
380 Support for blocking opens
382 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
383 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
385 Support for named queries
387 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
388 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
389 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
396 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
397 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
398 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
399 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
401 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
403 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
408 Support for compile time options
410 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
411 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
414 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
416 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
417 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
418 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
419 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
420 scripts to ignore it.
425 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
427 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
428 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
429 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
431 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
432 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
433 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
434 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
435 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
436 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
437 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
439 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
440 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
443 Make internal address completion customizable
445 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
446 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
447 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
448 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
451 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
453 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
454 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
455 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
456 completion for the current buffer.
458 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
459 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
460 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
464 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
465 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
466 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
467 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
468 will be added instead.
470 Face customization is easier
472 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
473 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
474 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
475 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
477 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
482 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
487 Go bindings moved to contrib
489 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
491 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
493 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
494 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
496 The same issue occured with sort modes.
498 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
499 ===========================
506 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
507 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
509 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
511 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
513 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
514 ===========================
519 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
521 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
526 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
531 Use `env` to locate perl.
536 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
538 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
540 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
542 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
544 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
545 =========================
552 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
553 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
555 Limited support for S/MIME messages
557 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
558 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
559 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
564 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
565 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
566 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
568 Command Line Interface
569 ----------------------
571 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
573 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
578 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
583 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
585 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
586 parts are now included in replies.
588 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
589 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
590 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
591 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
593 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
595 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
597 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
599 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
600 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
601 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
602 forwards only the current message.
604 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
606 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
607 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
608 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
609 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
610 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
611 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
612 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
613 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
616 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
617 longer generate empty buffers
619 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
620 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
621 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
622 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
623 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
625 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
627 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
630 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
632 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
635 Address completion improvements
637 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
638 you previously configured one, customize the variable
639 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
640 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
641 interactive address completion.
643 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
645 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
646 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
647 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
652 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
653 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
654 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
660 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
661 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
662 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
663 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
664 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
665 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
667 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
668 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
669 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
670 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
671 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
672 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
674 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
675 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
677 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
678 =========================
683 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
686 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
688 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
689 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
690 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
692 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
693 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
695 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
696 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
697 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
699 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
701 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
702 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
703 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
704 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
705 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
706 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
711 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
712 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
715 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
718 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
720 Command Line Interface
721 ----------------------
723 Database revision tracking
725 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
726 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
727 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
728 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
730 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
732 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
733 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
734 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
735 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
736 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
737 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
738 manual page for further information.
743 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
745 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
746 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
748 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
750 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
751 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
752 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
754 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
756 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
758 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
759 customization as well.
761 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
763 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
765 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
767 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
769 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
770 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
771 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
772 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
774 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
776 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
777 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
778 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
779 this variable to 10000.
784 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
785 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
787 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
789 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
790 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
791 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
792 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
793 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
794 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
795 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
796 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
797 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
800 Database revision tracking
802 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
803 query parser and the new function
804 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
806 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
810 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
811 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
812 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
813 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
818 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
820 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
821 ===========================
826 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
828 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
829 ===========================
834 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
836 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
837 =========================
839 Command-Line Interface
840 ----------------------
842 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
844 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
845 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
846 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
848 Path to gpg is now configurable
850 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
851 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
856 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
858 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
863 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
868 Support messages without Message-IDs.
873 Undeprecate single message mboxes
875 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
876 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
878 New error logging facility
880 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
881 output formerly printed to stderr.
883 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
885 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
887 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
889 Fix for rounding of seconds
894 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
896 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
897 docmumentation has been removed.
899 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
901 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
902 some material from the relicensed wiki.
907 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
908 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
909 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
914 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
915 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
916 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
917 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
918 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
919 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
922 git checkout config origin/config
924 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
926 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
927 =========================
932 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
933 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
934 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
935 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
936 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
937 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
938 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
940 Command-Line Interface
941 ----------------------
943 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
945 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
946 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
947 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
948 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
949 script callers should still check the return value.
951 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
953 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
954 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
955 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
956 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
957 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
958 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
959 and returning success even if indexing fails).
961 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
963 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
964 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
965 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
967 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
969 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
970 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
971 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
972 currently unmaintained.
974 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
976 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
977 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
978 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
979 have at least `N` files associated with them.
981 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
983 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
984 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
985 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
986 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
987 count of duplicate addresses.
992 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
994 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
995 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
996 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
999 Improved handling of the unread tag
1001 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1002 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1003 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1004 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1005 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1006 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1007 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1009 Expanded default saved search settings
1011 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1012 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1014 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1016 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1017 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1018 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1020 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1022 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1023 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1024 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1025 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1026 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1027 the variable for details.
1032 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1034 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1035 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1036 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1037 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1039 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1041 Previously, library users were required to call
1042 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1043 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1044 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1045 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1046 too out of date for that API.
1048 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1050 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1051 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1052 atomic section will be aborted.
1054 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1055 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1057 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1059 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1060 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1061 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1062 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1063 messages into the same thread.
1068 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1069 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1070 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1071 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1072 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1073 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1078 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1079 from the config file. Use something like:
1083 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1084 "footer": "</body></html>",
1093 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1098 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1099 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1100 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1102 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1103 ===========================
1108 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1110 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1112 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1114 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1115 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1117 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1119 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1122 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1123 ===========================
1125 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1130 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1132 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1134 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1136 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1138 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1144 Use --quick when starting emacs
1146 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1148 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1150 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1152 Command-Line Interface
1153 ----------------------
1155 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1156 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1161 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1163 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1164 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1166 Fix for phrase indexing
1168 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1169 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1170 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1175 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1177 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1178 unintentionally removed.
1180 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1181 =========================
1186 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1187 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1188 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1189 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1190 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1191 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1192 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1193 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1194 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1200 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1202 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1203 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1204 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1205 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1206 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1207 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1208 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1209 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1211 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1213 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1214 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1215 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1216 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1219 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1221 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1222 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1223 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1224 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1225 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1226 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1227 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1232 Notmuch database upgrade
1234 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1235 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1236 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1237 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1238 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1239 released version of Notmuch before now.
1241 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1243 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1244 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1245 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1246 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1248 Message header parsing changes
1250 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1251 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1252 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1253 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1254 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1255 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1257 Command-Line Interface
1258 ----------------------
1260 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1262 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1264 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1266 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1268 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1270 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1271 user does not want it.
1273 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1275 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1276 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1277 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1278 support formatted output.
1280 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1282 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1283 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1284 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1292 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1293 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1294 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1295 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1296 `~/.emacs` with these.
1298 Changed format for saved searches
1300 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1301 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1302 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1303 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1306 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1307 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1308 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1309 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1311 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1312 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1313 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1315 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1316 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1317 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1318 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1319 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1321 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1323 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1324 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1325 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1327 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1329 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1330 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1331 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1332 message had been unread).
1334 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1335 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1336 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1337 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1339 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1340 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1341 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1343 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1344 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1345 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1346 to tags already present.
1350 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1351 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1352 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1353 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1354 these differ from each other.
1355 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1357 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1359 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1360 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1361 for these Emacs versions.
1363 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1365 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1366 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1368 Bug fixes for sender identities
1370 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1371 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1372 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1374 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1376 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1377 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1378 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1379 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1381 Reply pushes mark before signature
1383 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1384 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1385 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1387 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1389 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1390 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1396 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1397 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1399 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1400 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1401 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1402 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1404 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1405 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1406 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1407 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1408 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1410 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1412 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1413 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1415 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1416 =========================
1418 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1419 ---------------------------------------
1421 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1422 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1423 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1424 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1425 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1426 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1427 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1431 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1432 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1434 Command-Line Interface
1435 ----------------------
1437 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1439 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1440 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1441 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1442 print for each message.
1444 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1445 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1446 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1447 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1449 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1451 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1452 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1453 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1455 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1457 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1458 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1459 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1460 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1462 `notmuch compact` command
1464 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1465 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1466 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1467 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1468 move the compacted database into place.
1473 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1475 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1476 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1477 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1478 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1479 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1480 and multiple threads.
1482 Using `notmuch-tree`
1484 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1486 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1487 search, show and tree mode itself)
1489 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1492 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1493 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1495 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1497 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1498 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1499 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1500 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1501 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1502 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1503 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1505 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1507 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1508 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1509 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1510 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1511 thread when the search was performed.
1513 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1515 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1516 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1517 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1519 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1521 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1522 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1525 Built-in help improvements
1527 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1528 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1529 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1531 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1533 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1534 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1535 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1537 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1539 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1540 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1542 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1544 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1545 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1546 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1547 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1549 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1551 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1552 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1553 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1554 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1556 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1558 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1559 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1560 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1562 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1564 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1565 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1566 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1568 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1570 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1571 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1572 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1573 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1574 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1576 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1578 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1579 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1580 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1581 the body part of the message.
1586 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1587 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1588 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1590 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1591 =========================
1593 Command-Line Interface
1594 ----------------------
1596 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1598 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1599 folder and notmuch index.
1601 `notmuch count --batch` option
1603 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1604 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1606 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1608 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1609 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1610 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1613 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1615 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1616 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1617 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1618 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1619 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1622 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1624 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1625 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1627 Top level option to specify configuration file
1629 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1630 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1632 Bash command-line completion
1634 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1635 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1636 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1637 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1638 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1639 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1640 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1641 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1642 bash-completion package.
1644 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1649 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1651 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1652 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1653 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1654 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1655 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1656 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1657 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1658 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1660 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1662 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1663 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1664 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1666 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1668 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1669 previous thread in the search results.
1671 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1673 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1674 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1676 Faster search and show
1678 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1679 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1680 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1681 threads should show faster.
1685 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1686 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1687 in question was now removed from this release.
1692 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1693 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1698 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1700 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1701 ===========================
1706 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1708 Internal test framework changes
1709 -------------------------------
1711 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1712 being unimplemented.
1714 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1715 ===========================
1717 Internal test framework changes
1718 -------------------------------
1720 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1721 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1723 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1724 =========================
1729 Date range search support
1731 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1732 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1733 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1734 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1735 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1738 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1740 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1741 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1742 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1743 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1744 but may be removed in a future release.
1746 Command-Line Interface
1747 ----------------------
1749 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1751 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1752 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1754 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1756 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1757 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1758 officially deprecated.
1760 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1762 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1763 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1764 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1766 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1768 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1769 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1772 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1773 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1774 dump/restore format.
1776 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1778 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1779 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1780 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1782 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1784 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1785 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1786 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1788 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1790 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1791 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1792 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1793 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1798 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1800 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1801 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1802 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1803 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1805 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1807 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1808 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1809 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1810 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1811 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1812 the behavior of this, see
1813 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1814 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1816 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1817 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1818 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1820 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1822 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1823 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1826 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1828 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1829 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1830 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1831 simply displayed in place of the message.
1833 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1835 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1836 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1838 Improved text/calendar content handling
1840 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1841 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1842 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1843 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1845 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1847 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1848 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1849 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1850 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1852 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1854 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1855 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1856 for HTML email containing images.
1858 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1860 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1862 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1864 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1867 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1869 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1870 the point where it was.
1872 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1874 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1875 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1876 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1877 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1878 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1880 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1882 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1883 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1884 thread instead of the message id.
1886 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1887 -----------------------------
1889 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1890 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1891 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1892 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1893 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1894 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1895 further details and installation.
1900 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1902 Internal test framework changes
1903 -------------------------------
1905 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1907 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1908 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1909 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1910 can result in buggy behavior.
1912 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1913 =========================
1918 Maildir tag synchronization
1920 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1921 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1922 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1923 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1924 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1925 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1928 Command-Line Interface
1929 ----------------------
1931 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1932 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1933 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1934 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1935 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1941 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1943 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1945 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1946 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1947 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1949 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1951 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1952 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1953 span multiple lines.
1955 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1957 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1958 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1959 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1960 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1961 inside the result or message.
1963 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1965 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1966 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1968 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1969 user-specified formatting
1971 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1972 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1973 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1974 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1975 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1977 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1978 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1980 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1981 ===========================
1986 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1987 compilation error for this contrib package.
1989 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1990 ===========================
1995 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1997 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1998 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1999 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2000 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2002 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2003 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2006 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2007 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2008 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2009 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2012 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2014 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2017 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2018 =========================
2020 Command-Line Interface
2021 ----------------------
2025 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2026 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2027 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2028 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2030 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2031 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2032 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2033 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2037 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2038 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2040 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2041 tag in your query, for example:
2043 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2045 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2046 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2048 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2049 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2051 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2053 Raw show format changes
2055 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2056 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2057 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2058 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2059 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2060 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2061 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2062 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2064 Listing configuration items
2066 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2072 Changes to tagging interface
2074 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2075 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2076 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2077 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2078 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2079 for more information.
2081 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2082 may need to update in custom configurations.
2084 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2086 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2087 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2088 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2089 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2092 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2093 -----------------------------
2095 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2096 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2097 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2098 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2099 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2100 contrib/ from now on.
2105 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2106 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2108 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2109 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2111 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2112 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2113 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2115 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2116 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2118 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2119 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2120 returning the new database object or directory object.
2127 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2128 compatible with go 1.
2130 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2131 =========================
2133 Command-Line Interface
2134 ----------------------
2138 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2139 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2140 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2141 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2143 Mail store folder/file ignore
2145 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2146 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2147 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2149 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2150 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2152 Unified help and manual pages
2154 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2155 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2158 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2160 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2161 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2169 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2170 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2171 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2172 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2174 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2176 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2177 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2179 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2182 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2183 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2184 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2186 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2188 should be changed to:
2190 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2192 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2194 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2195 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2197 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2199 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2200 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2201 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2202 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2203 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2204 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2208 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2209 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2210 of Mailing List Archives.
2212 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2214 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2215 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2218 Show view archiving key binding changes
2220 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2221 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2222 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2223 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2224 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2227 Support text/calendar MIME type
2229 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2232 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2234 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2235 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2236 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2237 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2239 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2241 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2242 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2243 messages blue by default in the search view.
2247 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2248 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2255 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2258 Python bindings changes
2259 -----------------------
2261 Python 3.2 compatibility
2263 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2265 Added missing unicode conversions
2267 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2268 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2269 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2274 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2276 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2277 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2278 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2279 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2280 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2282 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2283 ===========================
2288 Fix error handling in python bindings
2290 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2291 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2292 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2293 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2295 Quote MML tags in replies
2297 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2298 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2299 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2300 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2301 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2302 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2303 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2304 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2306 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2307 =========================
2309 Command-Line Interface
2310 ----------------------
2314 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2315 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2316 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2317 importing new messages into the database.
2319 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2321 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2322 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2323 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2328 Automatic tag query optimization
2330 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2331 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2332 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2334 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2336 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2337 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2338 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2343 Reduction of memory leaks
2345 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2346 and fixed in this release.
2353 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2354 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2355 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2358 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2360 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2361 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2362 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2365 Improvements in saved search management
2367 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2368 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2369 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2371 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2373 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2374 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2375 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2377 New face for crypto parts headers
2379 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2380 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2381 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2384 Use space as default thousands separator
2386 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2387 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2388 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2390 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2391 buttonized id: links
2393 New function notmuch-show-advance
2395 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2396 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2397 be bound to SPC with:
2399 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2401 Various performance improvements
2406 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2407 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2410 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2411 ===========================
2416 Fix crash in python bindings
2418 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2419 for some, but not all users.
2421 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2422 ===========================
2427 Fix `--help` argument
2429 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2430 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2431 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2433 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2434 =========================
2436 New build and testing features
2437 ------------------------------
2439 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2440 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2441 prerequisites is improved.
2443 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2445 New command-line features
2446 -------------------------
2448 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2450 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2451 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2454 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2456 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2457 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2458 favour of using stdout.
2460 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2462 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2463 limit the number of results shown.
2465 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2467 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2468 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2471 New emacs UI features
2472 ---------------------
2474 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2476 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2477 starting with "tag:".
2479 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2481 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2482 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2484 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2486 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2488 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2490 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2491 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2496 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2498 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2500 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2501 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2502 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2503 requires a database rebuild:
2505 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2506 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2508 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2510 New collection of add-on tools
2511 ------------------------------
2513 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2514 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2515 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2518 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2520 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2521 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2522 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2524 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2525 ========================
2527 New, general features
2528 ---------------------
2530 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2532 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2533 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2534 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2535 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2536 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2543 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2544 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2546 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2550 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2551 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2552 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2555 Python bindings changes
2556 -----------------------
2558 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2560 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2561 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2562 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2563 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2564 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2565 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2567 Ruby bindings changes
2568 ---------------------
2570 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2571 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2572 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2573 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2578 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2580 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2581 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2583 Reply formatting cleanup
2584 ------------------------
2586 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2587 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2589 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2590 ========================
2592 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2594 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2595 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2596 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2597 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2600 Improved Build system portability
2602 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2603 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2604 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2606 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2608 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2610 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2612 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2613 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2614 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2616 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2617 ========================
2619 Vim interface improvements
2620 --------------------------
2622 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2624 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2625 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2626 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2627 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2628 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2630 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2632 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2633 * fix compose temp file name
2635 Python Bindings changes
2636 -----------------------
2638 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2640 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2641 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2643 Build-System improvements
2644 -------------------------
2646 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2648 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2651 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2652 ==========================
2657 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2659 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2660 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2662 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2663 =======================
2665 New, general features
2666 ---------------------
2668 Folder-based searching
2670 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2671 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2672 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2676 For example, one might use things such as:
2682 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2683 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2685 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2686 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2687 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2688 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2690 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2691 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2692 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2695 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2696 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2698 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2700 Support for PGP/MIME
2702 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2703 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2704 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2706 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2708 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2709 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2711 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2712 notmuch will receive these tags.
2714 New command-line features
2715 -------------------------
2717 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2719 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2720 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2722 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2724 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2725 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2726 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2728 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2730 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2731 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2732 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2733 which parts a signature part applies).
2735 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2737 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2738 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2739 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2740 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2741 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2744 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2746 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2747 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2748 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2749 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2750 by translating it internally to the new call.
2752 Performance improvements
2753 ------------------------
2755 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2757 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2758 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2759 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2761 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2762 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2764 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2766 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2767 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2768 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2770 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2771 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2772 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2773 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2775 Faster initial indexing
2777 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2778 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2779 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2781 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2783 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2784 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2785 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2786 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2788 New emacs-interface features
2789 ----------------------------
2791 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2793 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2794 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2795 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2796 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2797 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2798 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2800 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2802 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2803 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2804 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2805 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2807 User-selectable From address
2809 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2810 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2811 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2812 will prompt for the from address to use.
2814 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2815 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2816 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2818 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2819 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2820 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2823 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2825 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2826 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2828 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2830 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2832 ----- Original Message -----
2834 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2835 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2836 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2837 citations work much like conventional citations.
2839 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2841 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2842 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2843 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2844 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2845 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2847 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2848 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2850 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2852 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2853 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2854 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2856 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2858 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2859 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2860 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2861 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2862 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2864 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2866 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2869 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2871 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2873 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2875 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2878 Vim interface improvements
2879 --------------------------
2881 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2883 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2884 * Implementing archive in show view
2885 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2886 * Add delete commands
2889 Bindings improvements
2890 ---------------------
2892 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2894 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2895 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2897 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2899 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2903 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2904 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2905 `list(Messages)` works now
2906 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2908 These allow, for example:
2910 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2912 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2914 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2920 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2922 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2925 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2927 New build-system features
2928 -------------------------
2930 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2932 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2933 the configure script from some other directory:
2940 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2942 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2943 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2944 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2945 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2946 manual invocation of configure.
2948 New test-suite feature
2949 ----------------------
2951 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2953 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2954 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2955 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2956 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2957 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2960 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2962 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2963 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2964 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2965 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2966 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2967 are updated to take advantage of this.
2969 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2971 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2972 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2973 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2974 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2980 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2982 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2983 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2984 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2986 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2988 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2990 to:user@elsewhere.com
2992 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2994 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2996 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2998 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2999 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3000 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3003 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3004 from the Received headers in some cases
3006 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3007 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3009 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3011 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3013 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3015 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3016 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3017 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3019 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3020 -------------------------
3022 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3024 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3025 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3026 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3028 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3030 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3031 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3032 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3035 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3037 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3038 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3039 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3040 fixed to avoid this bug.
3042 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3044 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3045 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3047 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3048 ========================
3050 New, general features
3051 ---------------------
3053 Maildir-flag synchronization
3055 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3056 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3065 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3067 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3068 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3069 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3070 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3072 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3073 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3074 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3075 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3078 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3080 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3081 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3082 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3084 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3085 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3087 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3088 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3090 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3091 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3092 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3094 New library features
3095 --------------------
3097 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3099 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3100 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3101 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3102 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3104 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3105 message with the new function:
3107 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3109 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3110 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3111 over all available filenames for a given message.
3113 New command-line features
3114 -------------------------
3116 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3118 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3119 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3120 access to the mail store itself.
3122 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3123 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3124 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3125 name of a script containing:
3127 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3129 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3130 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3136 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3138 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3140 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3142 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3143 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3144 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3145 now produces nothing).
3147 Emacs interface improvements
3148 ----------------------------
3150 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3152 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3154 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3156 Display current thread subject in a header line
3158 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3160 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3162 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3163 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3164 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3165 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3166 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3167 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3168 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3170 Vim interface improvements
3171 --------------------------
3173 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3175 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3176 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3182 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3184 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3185 ========================
3187 New command-line features
3188 -------------------------
3190 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3192 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3193 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3194 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3196 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3197 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3198 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3199 scripts. For example:
3201 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3202 <operations-on> "$file"
3205 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3207 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3208 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3209 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3210 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3211 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3212 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3214 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3216 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3217 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3218 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3219 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3221 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3223 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3224 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3225 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3226 default rather than Bcc.
3228 New library features
3229 --------------------
3231 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3233 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3234 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3239 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3241 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3242 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3243 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3244 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3245 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3246 notmuch customize interface.
3248 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3250 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3251 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3252 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3253 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3255 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3257 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3258 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3259 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3260 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3262 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3264 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3265 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3266 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3267 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3268 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3269 notmuch customize interface.
3271 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3273 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3274 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3275 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3276 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3277 notmuch customize interface.
3279 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3281 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3282 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3283 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3284 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3287 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3289 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3290 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3291 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3294 New build-system features
3295 -------------------------
3297 Various portability fixes have been applied
3299 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3300 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3301 more portable than ever before.
3303 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3305 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3306 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3307 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3309 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3310 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3311 automatically run ldconfig.
3313 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3314 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3315 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3317 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3318 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3319 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3320 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3322 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3324 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3325 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3326 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3327 used in the resulting Makefile.
3329 New test-suite features
3330 -----------------------
3332 New modularization of test suite
3334 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3335 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3336 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3337 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3338 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3339 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3340 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3341 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3343 New testing of emacs interface
3345 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3346 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3347 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3348 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3349 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3350 database via the FCC setting.
3355 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3357 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3358 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3359 persistent error of the form:
3361 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3363 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3364 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3366 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3368 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3369 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3370 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3372 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3374 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3375 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3376 parsing the notmuch results).
3378 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3380 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3383 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3384 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3385 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3390 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3392 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3393 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3394 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3395 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3396 the emacs interface.
3398 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3400 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3401 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3402 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3404 Python-binding fixes
3405 --------------------
3407 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3409 Debian-specific fixes
3410 ---------------------
3412 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3414 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3415 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3416 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3419 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3420 ==========================
3425 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3427 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3428 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3429 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3430 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3432 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3434 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3435 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3436 want notmuch to crash.
3441 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3443 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3444 directory does not exist
3449 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3451 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3452 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3454 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3455 ========================
3457 New command-line features
3458 -------------------------
3460 User-configurable tags for new messages
3462 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3463 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3464 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3465 to specify this value.
3467 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3469 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3470 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3471 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3473 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3475 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3476 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3478 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3480 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3481 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3482 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3483 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3484 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3487 Indication of author names that match a search
3489 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3490 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3491 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3492 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3493 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3494 messages in the thread are listed first.
3496 New: Python bindings
3497 --------------------
3499 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3500 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3501 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3502 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3504 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3505 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3506 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3509 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3510 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3511 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3513 Emacs interface improvements
3514 ----------------------------
3516 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3518 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3519 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3520 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3521 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3522 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3523 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3524 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3525 but without any of the disadvantages).
3527 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3528 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3529 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3532 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3533 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3534 instead running something like:
3536 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3538 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3539 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3540 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3543 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3545 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3546 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3547 tweaked by the user.
3549 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3550 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3551 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3554 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3555 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3556 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3559 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3561 This support currently relies on an external program,
3562 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3563 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3564 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3565 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3566 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3569 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3570 notmuch) is available via:
3572 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3574 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3575 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3576 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3578 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3580 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3581 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3582 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3583 making this automatic in a future release.
3585 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3587 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3588 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3589 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3590 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3591 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3592 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3595 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3597 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3598 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3599 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3601 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3603 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3604 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3605 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3607 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3608 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3609 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3610 other representation.
3612 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3613 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3616 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3618 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3619 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3620 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3622 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3623 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3624 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3626 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3628 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3629 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3630 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3631 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3632 to display the search result.
3634 More flexible handling of header visibility
3636 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3637 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3638 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3639 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3640 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3641 with the 'h' keybinding.
3643 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3644 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3645 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3647 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3649 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3651 Customizable formatting of search results
3653 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3654 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3655 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3657 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3659 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3661 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3666 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3668 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3669 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3670 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3671 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3677 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3679 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3680 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3682 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3684 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3685 accept are now all accepted.
3690 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3692 Better display of output from failed tests
3694 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3695 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3697 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3698 ========================
3700 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3701 detailed release notes this time!
3703 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3704 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3706 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3707 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3708 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3709 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3716 Better guessing of From: header
3718 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3719 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3720 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3721 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3722 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3725 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3727 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3728 guaranteed to match all messages.
3730 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3732 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3733 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3734 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3735 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3736 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3739 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3742 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3743 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3744 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3745 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3750 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3752 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3753 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3754 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3755 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3757 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3759 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3761 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3762 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3763 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3765 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3767 Previously, the user might see:
3769 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3773 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3775 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3776 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3777 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3778 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3780 Emacs client features
3781 ---------------------
3783 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3785 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3786 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3787 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3788 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3789 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3791 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3794 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3795 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3796 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3797 search with the '*' binding.
3799 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3801 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3802 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3805 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3807 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3808 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3809 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3811 Build-system features
3812 ---------------------
3814 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3816 Add support to configure for many standard options
3818 We include actual support for:
3820 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3822 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3824 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3825 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3827 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3828 separate "make install-emacs"
3830 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3832 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3833 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3834 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3836 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3839 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3840 ========================
3842 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3844 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3845 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3847 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3848 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3849 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3850 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3851 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3852 tags from messages in a thread.
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