1 Notmuch 0.26 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
10 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
11 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
14 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
15 ===========================
20 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
23 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
24 =========================
29 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
31 Skip HTML tags when indexing
33 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
35 Command Line Interface
36 ----------------------
38 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
40 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
45 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
47 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
48 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
51 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
56 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
58 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
59 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
61 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
63 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
64 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
67 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
69 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
71 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
73 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
74 ===========================
76 Command Line Interface
77 ----------------------
79 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
84 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
86 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
87 ===========================
92 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
94 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
95 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
98 Command Line Interface
99 ----------------------
101 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
103 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
105 Fix bug in dump header
107 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
108 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
109 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
114 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
116 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
117 =========================
122 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
124 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
127 Command Line Interface
128 ----------------------
130 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
132 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
133 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
134 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
136 New default output format to 3
138 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
139 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
140 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
141 default format changes.
146 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
148 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
149 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
150 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
151 or tree view to resume.
153 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
154 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
155 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
158 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
159 they were when you postponed in the final message.
163 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
164 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
165 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
166 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
167 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
171 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
172 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
173 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
174 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
175 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
176 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
180 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
181 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
183 Stop display of `application/*` parts
185 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
186 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
187 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
188 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
189 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
190 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
191 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
192 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
195 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
197 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
198 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
199 only tagged the current thread.)
201 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
203 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
204 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
205 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
207 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
209 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
210 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
211 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
212 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
213 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
214 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
215 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
217 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
219 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
220 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
221 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
226 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
228 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
231 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
233 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
236 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
237 ===========================
242 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
244 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
245 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
246 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
249 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
250 ===========================
252 Command Line Interface
253 ----------------------
255 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
260 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
262 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
263 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
264 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
266 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
267 ===========================
272 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
273 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
275 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
276 ===========================
278 Command Line Interface
279 ----------------------
281 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
283 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
284 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
285 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
290 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
292 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
293 ===========================
295 Command Line Interface
296 ----------------------
298 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
303 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
305 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
306 ===========================
311 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
313 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
314 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
315 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
317 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
319 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
321 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
322 ===========================
327 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
329 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
334 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
336 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
337 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
338 the original colours.
340 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
341 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
343 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
345 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
346 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
347 bug, and hence the test.
349 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
350 =========================
352 General (Xapian 1.4+)
353 ---------------------
355 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
357 Support for single argument date: queries
359 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
361 Support for blocking opens
363 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
364 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
366 Support for named queries
368 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
369 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
370 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
377 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
378 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
379 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
380 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
382 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
384 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
389 Support for compile time options
391 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
392 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
395 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
397 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
398 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
399 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
400 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
401 scripts to ignore it.
406 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
408 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
409 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
410 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
412 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
413 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
414 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
415 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
416 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
417 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
418 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
420 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
421 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
424 Make internal address completion customizable
426 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
427 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
428 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
429 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
432 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
434 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
435 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
436 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
437 completion for the current buffer.
439 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
440 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
441 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
445 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
446 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
447 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
448 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
449 will be added instead.
451 Face customization is easier
453 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
454 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
455 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
456 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
458 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
463 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
468 Go bindings moved to contrib
470 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
472 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
474 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
475 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
477 The same issue occured with sort modes.
479 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
480 ===========================
487 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
488 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
490 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
492 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
494 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
495 ===========================
500 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
502 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
507 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
512 Use `env` to locate perl.
517 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
519 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
521 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
523 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
525 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
526 =========================
533 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
534 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
536 Limited support for S/MIME messages
538 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
539 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
540 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
545 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
546 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
547 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
549 Command Line Interface
550 ----------------------
552 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
554 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
559 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
564 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
566 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
567 parts are now included in replies.
569 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
570 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
571 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
572 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
574 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
576 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
578 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
580 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
581 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
582 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
583 forwards only the current message.
585 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
587 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
588 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
589 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
590 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
591 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
592 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
593 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
594 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
597 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
598 longer generate empty buffers
600 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
601 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
602 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
603 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
604 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
606 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
608 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
611 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
613 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
616 Address completion improvements
618 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
619 you previously configured one, customize the variable
620 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
621 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
622 interactive address completion.
624 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
626 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
627 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
628 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
633 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
634 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
635 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
641 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
642 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
643 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
644 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
645 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
646 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
648 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
649 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
650 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
651 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
652 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
653 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
655 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
656 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
658 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
659 =========================
664 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
667 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
669 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
670 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
671 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
673 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
674 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
676 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
677 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
678 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
680 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
682 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
683 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
684 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
685 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
686 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
687 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
692 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
693 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
696 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
699 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
701 Command Line Interface
702 ----------------------
704 Database revision tracking
706 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
707 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
708 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
709 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
711 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
713 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
714 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
715 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
716 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
717 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
718 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
719 manual page for further information.
724 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
726 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
727 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
729 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
731 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
732 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
733 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
735 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
737 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
739 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
740 customization as well.
742 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
744 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
746 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
748 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
750 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
751 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
752 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
753 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
755 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
757 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
758 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
759 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
760 this variable to 10000.
765 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
766 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
768 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
770 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
771 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
772 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
773 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
774 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
775 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
776 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
777 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
778 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
781 Database revision tracking
783 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
784 query parser and the new function
785 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
787 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
791 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
792 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
793 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
794 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
799 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
801 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
802 ===========================
807 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
809 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
810 ===========================
815 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
817 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
818 =========================
820 Command-Line Interface
821 ----------------------
823 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
825 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
826 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
827 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
829 Path to gpg is now configurable
831 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
832 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
837 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
839 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
844 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
849 Support messages without Message-IDs.
854 Undeprecate single message mboxes
856 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
857 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
859 New error logging facility
861 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
862 output formerly printed to stderr.
864 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
866 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
868 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
870 Fix for rounding of seconds
875 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
877 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
878 docmumentation has been removed.
880 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
882 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
883 some material from the relicensed wiki.
888 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
889 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
890 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
895 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
896 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
897 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
898 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
899 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
900 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
903 git checkout config origin/config
905 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
907 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
908 =========================
913 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
914 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
915 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
916 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
917 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
918 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
919 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
921 Command-Line Interface
922 ----------------------
924 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
926 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
927 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
928 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
929 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
930 script callers should still check the return value.
932 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
934 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
935 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
936 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
937 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
938 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
939 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
940 and returning success even if indexing fails).
942 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
944 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
945 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
946 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
948 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
950 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
951 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
952 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
953 currently unmaintained.
955 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
957 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
958 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
959 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
960 have at least `N` files associated with them.
962 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
964 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
965 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
966 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
967 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
968 count of duplicate addresses.
973 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
975 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
976 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
977 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
980 Improved handling of the unread tag
982 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
983 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
984 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
985 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
986 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
987 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
988 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
990 Expanded default saved search settings
992 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
993 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
995 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
997 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
998 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
999 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1001 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1003 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1004 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1005 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1006 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1007 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1008 the variable for details.
1013 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1015 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1016 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1017 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1018 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1020 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1022 Previously, library users were required to call
1023 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1024 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1025 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1026 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1027 too out of date for that API.
1029 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1031 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1032 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1033 atomic section will be aborted.
1035 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1036 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1038 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1040 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1041 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1042 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1043 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1044 messages into the same thread.
1049 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1050 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1051 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1052 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1053 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1054 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1059 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1060 from the config file. Use something like:
1064 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1065 "footer": "</body></html>",
1074 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1079 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1080 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1081 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1083 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1084 ===========================
1089 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1091 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1093 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1095 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1096 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1098 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1100 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1103 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1104 ===========================
1106 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1111 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1113 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1115 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1117 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1119 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1125 Use --quick when starting emacs
1127 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1129 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1131 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1133 Command-Line Interface
1134 ----------------------
1136 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1137 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1142 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1144 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1145 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1147 Fix for phrase indexing
1149 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1150 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1151 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1156 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1158 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1159 unintentionally removed.
1161 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1162 =========================
1167 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1168 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1169 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1170 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1171 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1172 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1173 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1174 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1175 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1181 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1183 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1184 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1185 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1186 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1187 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1188 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1189 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1190 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1192 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1194 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1195 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1196 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1197 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1200 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1202 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1203 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1204 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1205 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1206 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1207 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1208 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1213 Notmuch database upgrade
1215 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1216 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1217 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1218 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1219 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1220 released version of Notmuch before now.
1222 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1224 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1225 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1226 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1227 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1229 Message header parsing changes
1231 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1232 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1233 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1234 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1235 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1236 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1238 Command-Line Interface
1239 ----------------------
1241 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1243 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1245 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1247 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1249 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1251 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1252 user does not want it.
1254 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1256 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1257 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1258 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1259 support formatted output.
1261 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1263 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1264 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1265 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1273 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1274 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1275 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1276 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1277 `~/.emacs` with these.
1279 Changed format for saved searches
1281 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1282 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1283 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1284 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1287 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1288 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1289 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1290 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1292 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1293 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1294 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1296 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1297 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1298 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1299 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1300 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1302 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1304 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1305 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1306 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1308 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1310 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1311 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1312 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1313 message had been unread).
1315 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1316 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1317 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1318 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1320 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1321 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1322 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1324 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1325 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1326 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1327 to tags already present.
1331 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1332 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1333 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1334 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1335 these differ from each other.
1336 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1338 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1340 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1341 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1342 for these Emacs versions.
1344 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1346 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1347 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1349 Bug fixes for sender identities
1351 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1352 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1353 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1355 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1357 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1358 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1359 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1360 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1362 Reply pushes mark before signature
1364 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1365 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1366 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1368 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1370 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1371 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1377 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1378 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1380 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1381 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1382 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1383 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1385 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1386 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1387 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1388 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1389 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1391 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1393 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1394 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1396 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1397 =========================
1399 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1400 ---------------------------------------
1402 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1403 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1404 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1405 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1406 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1407 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1408 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1412 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1413 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1415 Command-Line Interface
1416 ----------------------
1418 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1420 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1421 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1422 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1423 print for each message.
1425 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1426 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1427 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1428 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1430 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1432 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1433 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1434 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1436 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1438 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1439 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1440 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1441 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1443 `notmuch compact` command
1445 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1446 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1447 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1448 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1449 move the compacted database into place.
1454 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1456 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1457 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1458 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1459 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1460 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1461 and multiple threads.
1463 Using `notmuch-tree`
1465 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1467 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1468 search, show and tree mode itself)
1470 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1473 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1474 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1476 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1478 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1479 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1480 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1481 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1482 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1483 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1484 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1486 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1488 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1489 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1490 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1491 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1492 thread when the search was performed.
1494 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1496 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1497 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1498 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1500 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1502 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1503 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1506 Built-in help improvements
1508 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1509 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1510 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1512 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1514 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1515 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1516 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1518 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1520 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1521 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1523 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1525 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1526 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1527 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1528 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1530 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1532 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1533 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1534 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1535 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1537 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1539 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1540 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1541 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1543 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1545 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1546 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1547 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1549 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1551 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1552 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1553 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1554 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1555 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1557 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1559 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1560 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1561 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1562 the body part of the message.
1567 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1568 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1569 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1571 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1572 =========================
1574 Command-Line Interface
1575 ----------------------
1577 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1579 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1580 folder and notmuch index.
1582 `notmuch count --batch` option
1584 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1585 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1587 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1589 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1590 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1591 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1594 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1596 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1597 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1598 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1599 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1600 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1603 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1605 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1606 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1608 Top level option to specify configuration file
1610 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1611 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1613 Bash command-line completion
1615 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1616 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1617 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1618 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1619 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1620 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1621 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1622 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1623 bash-completion package.
1625 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1630 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1632 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1633 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1634 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1635 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1636 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1637 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1638 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1639 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1641 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1643 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1644 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1645 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1647 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1649 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1650 previous thread in the search results.
1652 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1654 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1655 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1657 Faster search and show
1659 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1660 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1661 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1662 threads should show faster.
1666 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1667 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1668 in question was now removed from this release.
1673 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1674 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1679 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1681 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1682 ===========================
1687 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1689 Internal test framework changes
1690 -------------------------------
1692 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1693 being unimplemented.
1695 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1696 ===========================
1698 Internal test framework changes
1699 -------------------------------
1701 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1702 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1704 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1705 =========================
1710 Date range search support
1712 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1713 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1714 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1715 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1716 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1719 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1721 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1722 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1723 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1724 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1725 but may be removed in a future release.
1727 Command-Line Interface
1728 ----------------------
1730 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1732 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1733 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1735 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1737 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1738 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1739 officially deprecated.
1741 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1743 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1744 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1745 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1747 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1749 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1750 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1753 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1754 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1755 dump/restore format.
1757 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1759 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1760 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1761 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1763 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1765 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1766 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1767 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1769 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1771 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1772 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1773 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1774 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1779 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1781 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1782 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1783 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1784 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1786 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1788 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1789 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1790 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1791 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1792 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1793 the behavior of this, see
1794 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1795 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1797 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1798 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1799 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1801 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1803 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1804 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1807 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1809 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1810 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1811 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1812 simply displayed in place of the message.
1814 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1816 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1817 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1819 Improved text/calendar content handling
1821 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1822 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1823 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1824 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1826 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1828 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1829 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1830 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1831 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1833 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1835 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1836 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1837 for HTML email containing images.
1839 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1841 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1843 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1845 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1848 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1850 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1851 the point where it was.
1853 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1855 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1856 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1857 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1858 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1859 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1861 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1863 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1864 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1865 thread instead of the message id.
1867 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1868 -----------------------------
1870 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1871 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1872 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1873 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1874 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1875 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1876 further details and installation.
1881 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1883 Internal test framework changes
1884 -------------------------------
1886 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1888 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1889 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1890 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1891 can result in buggy behavior.
1893 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1894 =========================
1899 Maildir tag synchronization
1901 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1902 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1903 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1904 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1905 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1906 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1909 Command-Line Interface
1910 ----------------------
1912 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1913 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1914 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1915 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1916 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1922 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1924 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1926 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1927 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1928 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1930 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1932 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1933 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1934 span multiple lines.
1936 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1938 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1939 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1940 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1941 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1942 inside the result or message.
1944 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1946 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1947 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1949 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1950 user-specified formatting
1952 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1953 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1954 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1955 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1956 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1958 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1959 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1961 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1962 ===========================
1967 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1968 compilation error for this contrib package.
1970 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1971 ===========================
1976 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1978 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1979 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1980 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1981 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1983 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1984 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1987 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1988 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1989 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1990 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1993 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1995 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1998 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1999 =========================
2001 Command-Line Interface
2002 ----------------------
2006 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2007 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2008 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2009 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2011 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2012 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2013 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2014 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2018 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2019 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2021 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2022 tag in your query, for example:
2024 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2026 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2027 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2029 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2030 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2032 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2034 Raw show format changes
2036 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2037 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2038 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2039 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2040 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2041 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2042 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2043 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2045 Listing configuration items
2047 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2053 Changes to tagging interface
2055 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2056 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2057 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2058 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2059 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2060 for more information.
2062 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2063 may need to update in custom configurations.
2065 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2067 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2068 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2069 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2070 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2073 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2074 -----------------------------
2076 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2077 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2078 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2079 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2080 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2081 contrib/ from now on.
2086 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2087 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2089 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2090 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2092 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2093 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2094 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2096 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2097 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2099 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2100 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2101 returning the new database object or directory object.
2108 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2109 compatible with go 1.
2111 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2112 =========================
2114 Command-Line Interface
2115 ----------------------
2119 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2120 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2121 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2122 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2124 Mail store folder/file ignore
2126 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2127 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2128 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2130 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2131 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2133 Unified help and manual pages
2135 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2136 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2139 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2141 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2142 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2150 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2151 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2152 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2153 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2155 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2157 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2158 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2160 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2163 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2164 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2165 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2167 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2169 should be changed to:
2171 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2173 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2175 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2176 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2178 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2180 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2181 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2182 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2183 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2184 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2185 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2189 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2190 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2191 of Mailing List Archives.
2193 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2195 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2196 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2199 Show view archiving key binding changes
2201 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2202 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2203 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2204 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2205 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2208 Support text/calendar MIME type
2210 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2213 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2215 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2216 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2217 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2218 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2220 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2222 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2223 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2224 messages blue by default in the search view.
2228 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2229 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2236 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2239 Python bindings changes
2240 -----------------------
2242 Python 3.2 compatibility
2244 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2246 Added missing unicode conversions
2248 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2249 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2250 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2255 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2257 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2258 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2259 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2260 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2261 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2263 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2264 ===========================
2269 Fix error handling in python bindings
2271 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2272 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2273 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2274 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2276 Quote MML tags in replies
2278 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2279 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2280 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2281 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2282 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2283 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2284 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2285 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2287 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2288 =========================
2290 Command-Line Interface
2291 ----------------------
2295 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2296 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2297 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2298 importing new messages into the database.
2300 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2302 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2303 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2304 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2309 Automatic tag query optimization
2311 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2312 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2313 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2315 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2317 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2318 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2319 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2324 Reduction of memory leaks
2326 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2327 and fixed in this release.
2334 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2335 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2336 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2339 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2341 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2342 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2343 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2346 Improvements in saved search management
2348 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2349 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2350 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2352 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2354 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2355 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2356 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2358 New face for crypto parts headers
2360 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2361 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2362 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2365 Use space as default thousands separator
2367 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2368 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2369 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2371 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2372 buttonized id: links
2374 New function notmuch-show-advance
2376 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2377 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2378 be bound to SPC with:
2380 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2382 Various performance improvements
2387 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2388 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2391 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2392 ===========================
2397 Fix crash in python bindings
2399 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2400 for some, but not all users.
2402 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2403 ===========================
2408 Fix `--help` argument
2410 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2411 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2412 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2414 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2415 =========================
2417 New build and testing features
2418 ------------------------------
2420 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2421 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2422 prerequisites is improved.
2424 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2426 New command-line features
2427 -------------------------
2429 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2431 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2432 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2435 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2437 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2438 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2439 favour of using stdout.
2441 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2443 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2444 limit the number of results shown.
2446 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2448 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2449 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2452 New emacs UI features
2453 ---------------------
2455 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2457 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2458 starting with "tag:".
2460 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2462 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2463 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2465 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2467 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2469 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2471 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2472 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2477 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2479 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2481 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2482 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2483 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2484 requires a database rebuild:
2486 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2487 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2489 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2491 New collection of add-on tools
2492 ------------------------------
2494 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2495 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2496 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2499 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2501 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2502 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2503 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2505 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2506 ========================
2508 New, general features
2509 ---------------------
2511 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2513 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2514 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2515 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2516 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2517 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2524 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2525 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2527 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2531 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2532 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2533 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2536 Python bindings changes
2537 -----------------------
2539 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2541 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2542 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2543 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2544 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2545 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2546 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2548 Ruby bindings changes
2549 ---------------------
2551 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2552 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2553 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2554 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2559 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2561 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2562 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2564 Reply formatting cleanup
2565 ------------------------
2567 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2568 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2570 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2571 ========================
2573 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2575 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2576 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2577 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2578 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2581 Improved Build system portability
2583 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2584 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2585 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2587 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2589 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2591 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2593 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2594 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2595 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2597 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2598 ========================
2600 Vim interface improvements
2601 --------------------------
2603 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2605 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2606 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2607 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2608 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2609 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2611 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2613 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2614 * fix compose temp file name
2616 Python Bindings changes
2617 -----------------------
2619 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2621 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2622 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2624 Build-System improvements
2625 -------------------------
2627 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2629 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2632 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2633 ==========================
2638 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2640 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2641 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2643 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2644 =======================
2646 New, general features
2647 ---------------------
2649 Folder-based searching
2651 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2652 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2653 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2657 For example, one might use things such as:
2663 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2664 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2666 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2667 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2668 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2669 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2671 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2672 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2673 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2676 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2677 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2679 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2681 Support for PGP/MIME
2683 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2684 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2685 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2687 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2689 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2690 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2692 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2693 notmuch will receive these tags.
2695 New command-line features
2696 -------------------------
2698 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2700 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2701 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2703 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2705 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2706 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2707 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2709 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2711 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2712 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2713 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2714 which parts a signature part applies).
2716 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2718 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2719 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2720 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2721 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2722 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2725 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2727 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2728 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2729 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2730 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2731 by translating it internally to the new call.
2733 Performance improvements
2734 ------------------------
2736 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2738 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2739 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2740 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2742 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2743 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2745 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2747 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2748 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2749 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2751 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2752 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2753 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2754 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2756 Faster initial indexing
2758 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2759 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2760 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2762 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2764 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2765 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2766 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2767 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2769 New emacs-interface features
2770 ----------------------------
2772 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2774 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2775 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2776 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2777 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2778 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2779 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2781 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2783 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2784 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2785 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2786 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2788 User-selectable From address
2790 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2791 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2792 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2793 will prompt for the from address to use.
2795 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2796 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2797 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2799 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2800 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2801 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2804 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2806 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2807 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2809 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2811 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2813 ----- Original Message -----
2815 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2816 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2817 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2818 citations work much like conventional citations.
2820 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2822 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2823 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2824 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2825 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2826 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2828 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2829 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2831 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2833 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2834 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2835 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2837 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2839 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2840 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2841 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2842 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2843 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2845 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2847 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2850 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2852 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2854 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2856 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2859 Vim interface improvements
2860 --------------------------
2862 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2864 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2865 * Implementing archive in show view
2866 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2867 * Add delete commands
2870 Bindings improvements
2871 ---------------------
2873 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2875 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2876 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2878 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2880 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2884 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2885 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2886 `list(Messages)` works now
2887 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2889 These allow, for example:
2891 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2893 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2895 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2901 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2903 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2906 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2908 New build-system features
2909 -------------------------
2911 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2913 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2914 the configure script from some other directory:
2921 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2923 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2924 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2925 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2926 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2927 manual invocation of configure.
2929 New test-suite feature
2930 ----------------------
2932 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2934 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2935 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2936 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2937 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2938 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2941 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2943 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2944 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2945 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2946 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2947 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2948 are updated to take advantage of this.
2950 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2952 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2953 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2954 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2955 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2961 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2963 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2964 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2965 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2967 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2969 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2971 to:user@elsewhere.com
2973 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2975 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2977 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2979 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2980 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2981 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2984 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2985 from the Received headers in some cases
2987 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2988 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2990 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2992 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2994 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2996 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2997 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2998 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3000 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3001 -------------------------
3003 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3005 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3006 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3007 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3009 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3011 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3012 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3013 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3016 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3018 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3019 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3020 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3021 fixed to avoid this bug.
3023 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3025 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3026 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3028 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3029 ========================
3031 New, general features
3032 ---------------------
3034 Maildir-flag synchronization
3036 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3037 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3046 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3048 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3049 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3050 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3051 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3053 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3054 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3055 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3056 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3059 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3061 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3062 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3063 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3065 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3066 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3068 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3069 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3071 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3072 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3073 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3075 New library features
3076 --------------------
3078 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3080 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3081 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3082 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3083 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3085 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3086 message with the new function:
3088 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3090 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3091 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3092 over all available filenames for a given message.
3094 New command-line features
3095 -------------------------
3097 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3099 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3100 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3101 access to the mail store itself.
3103 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3104 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3105 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3106 name of a script containing:
3108 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3110 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3111 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3117 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3119 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3121 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3123 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3124 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3125 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3126 now produces nothing).
3128 Emacs interface improvements
3129 ----------------------------
3131 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3133 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3135 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3137 Display current thread subject in a header line
3139 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3141 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3143 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3144 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3145 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3146 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3147 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3148 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3149 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3151 Vim interface improvements
3152 --------------------------
3154 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3156 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3157 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3163 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3165 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3166 ========================
3168 New command-line features
3169 -------------------------
3171 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3173 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3174 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3175 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3177 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3178 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3179 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3180 scripts. For example:
3182 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3183 <operations-on> "$file"
3186 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3188 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3189 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3190 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3191 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3192 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3193 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3195 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3197 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3198 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3199 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3200 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3202 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3204 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3205 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3206 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3207 default rather than Bcc.
3209 New library features
3210 --------------------
3212 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3214 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3215 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3220 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3222 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3223 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3224 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3225 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3226 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3227 notmuch customize interface.
3229 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3231 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3232 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3233 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3234 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3236 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3238 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3239 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3240 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3241 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3243 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3245 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3246 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3247 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3248 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3249 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3250 notmuch customize interface.
3252 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3254 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3255 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3256 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3257 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3258 notmuch customize interface.
3260 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3262 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3263 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3264 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3265 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3268 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3270 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3271 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3272 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3275 New build-system features
3276 -------------------------
3278 Various portability fixes have been applied
3280 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3281 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3282 more portable than ever before.
3284 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3286 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3287 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3288 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3290 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3291 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3292 automatically run ldconfig.
3294 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3295 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3296 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3298 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3299 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3300 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3301 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3303 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3305 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3306 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3307 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3308 used in the resulting Makefile.
3310 New test-suite features
3311 -----------------------
3313 New modularization of test suite
3315 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3316 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3317 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3318 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3319 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3320 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3321 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3322 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3324 New testing of emacs interface
3326 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3327 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3328 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3329 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3330 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3331 database via the FCC setting.
3336 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3338 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3339 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3340 persistent error of the form:
3342 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3344 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3345 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3347 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3349 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3350 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3351 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3353 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3355 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3356 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3357 parsing the notmuch results).
3359 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3361 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3364 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3365 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3366 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3371 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3373 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3374 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3375 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3376 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3377 the emacs interface.
3379 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3381 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3382 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3383 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3385 Python-binding fixes
3386 --------------------
3388 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3390 Debian-specific fixes
3391 ---------------------
3393 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3395 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3396 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3397 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3400 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3401 ==========================
3406 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3408 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3409 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3410 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3411 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3413 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3415 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3416 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3417 want notmuch to crash.
3422 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3424 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3425 directory does not exist
3430 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3432 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3433 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3435 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3436 ========================
3438 New command-line features
3439 -------------------------
3441 User-configurable tags for new messages
3443 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3444 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3445 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3446 to specify this value.
3448 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3450 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3451 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3452 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3454 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3456 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3457 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3459 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3461 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3462 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3463 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3464 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3465 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3468 Indication of author names that match a search
3470 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3471 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3472 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3473 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3474 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3475 messages in the thread are listed first.
3477 New: Python bindings
3478 --------------------
3480 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3481 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3482 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3483 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3485 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3486 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3487 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3490 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3491 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3492 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3494 Emacs interface improvements
3495 ----------------------------
3497 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3499 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3500 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3501 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3502 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3503 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3504 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3505 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3506 but without any of the disadvantages).
3508 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3509 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3510 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3513 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3514 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3515 instead running something like:
3517 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3519 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3520 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3521 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3524 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3526 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3527 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3528 tweaked by the user.
3530 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3531 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3532 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3535 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3536 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3537 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3540 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3542 This support currently relies on an external program,
3543 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3544 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3545 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3546 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3547 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3550 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3551 notmuch) is available via:
3553 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3555 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3556 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3557 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3559 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3561 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3562 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3563 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3564 making this automatic in a future release.
3566 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3568 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3569 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3570 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3571 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3572 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3573 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3576 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3578 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3579 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3580 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3582 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3584 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3585 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3586 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3588 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3589 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3590 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3591 other representation.
3593 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3594 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3597 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3599 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3600 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3601 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3603 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3604 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3605 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3607 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3609 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3610 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3611 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3612 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3613 to display the search result.
3615 More flexible handling of header visibility
3617 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3618 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3619 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3620 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3621 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3622 with the 'h' keybinding.
3624 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3625 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3626 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3628 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3630 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3632 Customizable formatting of search results
3634 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3635 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3636 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3638 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3640 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3642 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3647 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3649 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3650 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3651 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3652 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3658 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3660 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3661 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3663 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3665 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3666 accept are now all accepted.
3671 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3673 Better display of output from failed tests
3675 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3676 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3678 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3679 ========================
3681 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3682 detailed release notes this time!
3684 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3685 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3687 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3688 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3689 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3690 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3697 Better guessing of From: header
3699 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3700 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3701 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3702 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3703 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3706 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3708 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3709 guaranteed to match all messages.
3711 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3713 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3714 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3715 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3716 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3717 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3720 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3723 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3724 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3725 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3726 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3731 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3733 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3734 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3735 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3736 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3738 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3740 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3742 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3743 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3744 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3746 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3748 Previously, the user might see:
3750 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3754 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3756 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3757 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3758 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3759 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3761 Emacs client features
3762 ---------------------
3764 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3766 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3767 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3768 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3769 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3770 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3772 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3775 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3776 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3777 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3778 search with the '*' binding.
3780 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3782 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3783 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3786 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3788 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3789 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3790 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3792 Build-system features
3793 ---------------------
3795 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3797 Add support to configure for many standard options
3799 We include actual support for:
3801 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3803 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3805 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3806 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3808 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3809 separate "make install-emacs"
3811 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3813 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3814 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3815 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3817 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3820 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3821 ========================
3823 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3825 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3826 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3828 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3829 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3830 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3831 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3832 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3833 tags from messages in a thread.
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