1 Notmuch 0.21 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
10 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
12 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
13 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
14 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
16 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
19 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
20 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
21 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
23 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
25 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
26 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
27 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
28 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
29 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
30 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
35 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
36 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
39 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
42 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
44 Command Line Interface
45 ----------------------
47 Database revision tracking
49 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
50 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
51 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
52 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
54 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
56 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
57 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
58 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
59 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
60 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
61 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
62 manual page for further information.
67 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
69 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
70 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
72 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
74 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
75 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
76 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
78 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>".
80 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
82 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
83 customization as well.
88 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
89 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`.
91 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
93 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
94 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
95 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
96 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
97 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
98 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
99 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
100 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
101 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
104 Database revision tracking
106 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
107 query parser and the new function
108 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
110 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}.
114 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
115 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
116 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
117 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
122 nmbug-status now supports specifying the sort order for each view
124 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
125 ===========================
130 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
132 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
133 ===========================
138 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
140 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
141 =========================
143 Command-Line Interface
144 ----------------------
146 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
148 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
149 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
150 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
152 Path to gpg is now configurable
154 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
155 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
160 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
162 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
167 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
172 Support messages without Message-IDs.
177 Undeprecate single message mboxes
179 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
180 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
182 New error logging facility
184 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
185 output formerly printed to stderr.
187 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
189 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
191 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
193 Fix for rounding of seconds
198 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
200 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
201 docmumentation has been removed.
203 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
205 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
206 some material from the relicensed wiki.
211 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
212 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
213 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
218 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
219 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
220 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
221 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
222 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
223 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
226 git checkout config origin/config
228 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
230 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
231 =========================
236 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
237 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
238 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
239 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
240 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
241 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
242 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
244 Command-Line Interface
245 ----------------------
247 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
249 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
250 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
251 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
252 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
253 script callers should still check the return value.
255 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
257 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
258 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
259 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
260 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
261 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
262 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
263 and returning success even if indexing fails).
265 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
267 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
268 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
269 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
271 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
273 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
274 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
275 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
276 currently unmaintained.
278 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
280 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
281 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
282 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
283 have at least `N` files associated with them.
285 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
287 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
288 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
289 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
290 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
291 count of duplicate addresses.
296 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
298 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
299 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
300 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
303 Improved handling of the unread tag
305 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
306 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
307 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
308 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
309 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
310 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
311 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
313 Expanded default saved search settings
315 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
316 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
318 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
320 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
321 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
322 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
324 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
326 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
327 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
328 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
329 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
330 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
331 the variable for details.
336 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
338 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
339 Representing these independently of the database version number will
340 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
341 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
343 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
345 Previously, library users were required to call
346 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
347 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
348 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
349 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
350 too out of date for that API.
352 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
354 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
355 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
356 atomic section will be aborted.
358 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
359 `notmuch_database_destroy`
361 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
363 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
364 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
365 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
366 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
367 messages into the same thread.
372 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
373 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
374 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
375 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
376 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
377 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
382 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
383 from the config file. Use something like:
387 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
388 "footer": "</body></html>",
397 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
402 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
403 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
404 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
406 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
407 ===========================
412 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
414 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
416 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
418 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
419 structure for signatures changed slightly.
421 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
423 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
426 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
427 ===========================
429 This is a bug fix and portability release.
434 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
436 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
438 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
440 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
442 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
448 Use --quick when starting emacs
450 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
452 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
454 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
456 Command-Line Interface
457 ----------------------
459 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
460 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
465 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
467 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
468 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
470 Fix for phrase indexing
472 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
473 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
474 will affect only newly indexed messages.
479 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
481 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
482 unintentionally removed.
484 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
485 =========================
490 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
491 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
492 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
493 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
494 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
495 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
496 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
497 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
498 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
504 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
506 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
507 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
508 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
509 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
510 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
511 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
512 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
513 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
515 There is a new `path:` search prefix
517 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
518 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
519 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
520 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
523 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
525 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
526 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
527 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
528 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
529 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
530 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
531 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
536 Notmuch database upgrade
538 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
539 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
540 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
541 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
542 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
543 released version of Notmuch before now.
545 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
547 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
548 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
549 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
550 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
552 Message header parsing changes
554 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
555 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
556 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
557 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
558 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
559 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
561 Command-Line Interface
562 ----------------------
564 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
566 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
568 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
570 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
572 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
574 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
575 user does not want it.
577 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
579 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
580 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
581 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
582 support formatted output.
584 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
586 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
587 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
588 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
596 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
597 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
598 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
599 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
600 `~/.emacs` with these.
602 Changed format for saved searches
604 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
605 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
606 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
607 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
610 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
611 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
612 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
613 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
615 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
616 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
617 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
619 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
620 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
621 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
622 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
623 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
625 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
627 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
628 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
629 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
631 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
633 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
634 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
635 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
636 message had been unread).
638 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
639 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
640 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
641 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
643 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
644 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
645 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
647 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
648 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
649 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
650 to tags already present.
654 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
655 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
656 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
657 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
658 these differ from each other.
659 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
661 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
663 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
664 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
665 for these Emacs versions.
667 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
669 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
670 newlines before calling notmuch count.
672 Bug fixes for sender identities
674 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
675 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
676 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
678 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
680 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
681 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
682 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
683 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
685 Reply pushes mark before signature
687 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
688 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
689 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
691 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
693 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
694 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
700 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
701 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
703 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
704 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
705 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
706 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
708 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
709 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
710 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
711 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
712 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
714 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
716 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
717 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
719 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
720 =========================
722 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
723 ---------------------------------------
725 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
726 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
727 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
728 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
729 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
730 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
731 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
735 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
736 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
738 Command-Line Interface
739 ----------------------
741 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
743 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
744 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
745 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
746 print for each message.
748 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
749 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
750 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
751 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
753 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
755 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
756 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
757 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
759 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
761 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
762 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
763 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
764 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
766 `notmuch compact` command
768 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
769 functionality through a more convenient interface than
770 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
771 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
772 move the compacted database into place.
777 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
779 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
780 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
781 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
782 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
783 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
784 and multiple threads.
788 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
790 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
791 search, show and tree mode itself)
793 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
796 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
797 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
799 Customising `notmuch-tree`
801 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
802 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
803 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
804 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
805 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
806 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
807 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
809 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
811 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
812 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
813 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
814 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
815 thread when the search was performed.
817 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
819 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
820 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
821 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
823 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
825 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
826 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
829 Built-in help improvements
831 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
832 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
833 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
835 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
837 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
838 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
839 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
841 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
843 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
844 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
846 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
848 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
849 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
850 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
851 to move some of them to the common keymap.
853 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
855 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
856 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
857 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
858 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
860 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
862 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
863 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
864 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
866 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
868 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
869 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
870 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
872 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
874 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
875 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
876 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
877 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
878 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
880 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
882 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
883 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
884 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
885 the body part of the message.
890 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
891 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
892 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
894 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
895 =========================
897 Command-Line Interface
898 ----------------------
900 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
902 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
903 folder and notmuch index.
905 `notmuch count --batch` option
907 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
908 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
910 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
912 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
913 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
914 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
917 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
919 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
920 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
921 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
922 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
923 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
926 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
928 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
929 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
931 Top level option to specify configuration file
933 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
934 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
936 Bash command-line completion
938 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
939 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
940 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
941 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
942 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
943 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
944 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
945 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
946 bash-completion package.
948 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
953 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
955 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
956 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
957 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
958 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
959 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
960 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
961 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
962 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
964 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
966 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
967 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
968 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
970 Key bindings for next/previous thread
972 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
973 previous thread in the search results.
975 Better handling of errors in search buffers
977 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
978 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
980 Faster search and show
982 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
983 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
984 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
985 threads should show faster.
989 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
990 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
991 in question was now removed from this release.
996 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
997 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1002 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1004 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1005 ===========================
1010 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1012 Internal test framework changes
1013 -------------------------------
1015 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1016 being unimplemented.
1018 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1019 ===========================
1021 Internal test framework changes
1022 -------------------------------
1024 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1025 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1027 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1028 =========================
1033 Date range search support
1035 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1036 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1037 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1038 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1039 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1042 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1044 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1045 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1046 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1047 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1048 but may be removed in a future release.
1050 Command-Line Interface
1051 ----------------------
1053 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1055 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1056 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1058 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1060 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1061 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1062 officially deprecated.
1064 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1066 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1067 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1068 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1070 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1072 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1073 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1076 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1077 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1078 dump/restore format.
1080 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1082 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1083 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1084 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1086 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1088 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1089 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1090 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1092 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1094 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1095 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1096 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1097 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1102 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1104 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1105 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1106 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1107 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1109 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1111 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1112 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1113 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1114 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1115 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1116 the behavior of this, see
1117 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1118 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1120 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1121 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1122 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1124 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1126 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1127 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1130 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1132 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1133 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1134 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1135 simply displayed in place of the message.
1137 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1139 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1140 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1142 Improved text/calendar content handling
1144 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1145 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1146 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1147 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1149 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1151 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1152 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1153 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1154 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1156 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1158 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1159 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1160 for HTML email containing images.
1162 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1164 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1166 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1168 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1171 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1173 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1174 the point where it was.
1176 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1178 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1179 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1180 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1181 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1182 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1184 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1186 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1187 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1188 thread instead of the message id.
1190 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1191 -----------------------------
1193 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1194 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1195 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1196 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1197 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1198 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1199 further details and installation.
1204 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1206 Internal test framework changes
1207 -------------------------------
1209 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1211 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1212 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1213 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1214 can result in buggy behavior.
1216 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1217 =========================
1222 Maildir tag synchronization
1224 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1225 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1226 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1227 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1228 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1229 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1232 Command-Line Interface
1233 ----------------------
1235 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1236 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1237 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1238 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1239 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1245 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1247 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1249 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1250 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1251 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1253 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1255 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1256 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1257 span multiple lines.
1259 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1261 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1262 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1263 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1264 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1265 inside the result or message.
1267 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1269 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1270 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1272 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1273 user-specified formatting
1275 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1276 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1277 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1278 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1279 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1281 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1282 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1284 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1285 ===========================
1290 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1291 compilation error for this contrib package.
1293 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1294 ===========================
1299 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1301 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1302 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1303 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1304 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1306 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1307 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1310 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1311 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1312 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1313 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1316 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1318 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1321 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1322 =========================
1324 Command-Line Interface
1325 ----------------------
1329 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1330 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1331 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1332 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1334 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1335 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1336 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1337 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1341 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1342 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1344 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1345 tag in your query, for example:
1347 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1349 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1350 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1352 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1353 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1355 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1357 Raw show format changes
1359 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1360 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1361 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1362 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1363 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1364 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1365 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1366 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1368 Listing configuration items
1370 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1376 Changes to tagging interface
1378 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1379 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1380 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1381 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1382 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1383 for more information.
1385 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1386 may need to update in custom configurations.
1388 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1390 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1391 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1392 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1393 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1396 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1397 -----------------------------
1399 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1400 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1401 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1402 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1403 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1404 contrib/ from now on.
1409 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1410 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1412 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1413 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1415 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1416 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1417 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1419 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1420 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1422 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1423 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1424 returning the new database object or directory object.
1431 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1432 compatible with go 1.
1434 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1435 =========================
1437 Command-Line Interface
1438 ----------------------
1442 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1443 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1444 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1445 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1447 Mail store folder/file ignore
1449 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1450 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1451 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1453 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1454 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1456 Unified help and manual pages
1458 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1459 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1462 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1464 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1465 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1473 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1474 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1475 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1476 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1478 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1480 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1481 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1483 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1486 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1487 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1488 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1490 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1492 should be changed to:
1494 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1496 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1498 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1499 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1501 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1503 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1504 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1505 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1506 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1507 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1508 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1512 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1513 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1514 of Mailing List Archives.
1516 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1518 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1519 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1522 Show view archiving key binding changes
1524 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1525 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1526 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1527 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1528 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1531 Support text/calendar MIME type
1533 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1536 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1538 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1539 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1540 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1541 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1543 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1545 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1546 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1547 messages blue by default in the search view.
1551 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1552 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1559 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1562 Python bindings changes
1563 -----------------------
1565 Python 3.2 compatibility
1567 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1569 Added missing unicode conversions
1571 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1572 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1573 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1578 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1580 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1581 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1582 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1583 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1584 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1586 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1587 ===========================
1592 Fix error handling in python bindings
1594 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1595 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1596 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1597 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1599 Quote MML tags in replies
1601 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1602 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1603 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1604 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1605 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1606 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1607 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1608 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1610 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1611 =========================
1613 Command-Line Interface
1614 ----------------------
1618 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1619 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1620 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1621 importing new messages into the database.
1623 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1625 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1626 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1627 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1632 Automatic tag query optimization
1634 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1635 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1636 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1638 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1640 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1641 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1642 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1647 Reduction of memory leaks
1649 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1650 and fixed in this release.
1657 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1658 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1659 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1662 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1664 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1665 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1666 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1669 Improvements in saved search management
1671 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1672 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1673 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1675 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1677 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1678 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1679 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1681 New face for crypto parts headers
1683 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1684 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1685 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1688 Use space as default thousands separator
1690 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1691 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1692 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1694 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1695 buttonized id: links
1697 New function notmuch-show-advance
1699 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1700 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1701 be bound to SPC with:
1703 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1705 Various performance improvements
1710 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1711 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1714 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1715 ===========================
1720 Fix crash in python bindings
1722 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1723 for some, but not all users.
1725 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1726 ===========================
1731 Fix `--help` argument
1733 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1734 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1735 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1737 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1738 =========================
1740 New build and testing features
1741 ------------------------------
1743 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1744 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1745 prerequisites is improved.
1747 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1749 New command-line features
1750 -------------------------
1752 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1754 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1755 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1758 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1760 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1761 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1762 favour of using stdout.
1764 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1766 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1767 limit the number of results shown.
1769 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1771 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1772 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1775 New emacs UI features
1776 ---------------------
1778 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1780 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1781 starting with "tag:".
1783 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1785 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1786 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1788 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1790 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1792 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1794 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1795 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1800 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1802 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1804 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1805 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1806 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1807 requires a database rebuild:
1809 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1810 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1812 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1814 New collection of add-on tools
1815 ------------------------------
1817 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1818 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1819 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1822 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1824 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1825 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1826 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1828 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1829 ========================
1831 New, general features
1832 ---------------------
1834 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1836 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1837 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1838 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1839 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1840 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1847 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1848 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1850 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1854 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1855 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1856 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1859 Python bindings changes
1860 -----------------------
1862 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1864 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1865 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1866 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1867 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1868 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1869 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1871 Ruby bindings changes
1872 ---------------------
1874 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1875 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1876 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1877 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1882 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1884 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1885 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1887 Reply formatting cleanup
1888 ------------------------
1890 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1891 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1893 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1894 ========================
1896 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1898 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1899 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1900 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1901 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1904 Improved Build system portability
1906 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1907 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1908 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1910 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1912 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1914 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1916 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1917 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1918 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1920 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1921 ========================
1923 Vim interface improvements
1924 --------------------------
1926 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1928 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1929 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1930 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1931 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1932 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1934 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1936 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1937 * fix compose temp file name
1939 Python Bindings changes
1940 -----------------------
1942 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1944 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1945 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1947 Build-System improvements
1948 -------------------------
1950 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1952 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1955 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1956 ==========================
1961 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1963 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1964 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1966 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1967 =======================
1969 New, general features
1970 ---------------------
1972 Folder-based searching
1974 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1975 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1976 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1980 For example, one might use things such as:
1986 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1987 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1989 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1990 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1991 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1992 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1994 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1995 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1996 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1999 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2000 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2002 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2004 Support for PGP/MIME
2006 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2007 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2008 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2010 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2012 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2013 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2015 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2016 notmuch will receive these tags.
2018 New command-line features
2019 -------------------------
2021 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2023 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2024 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2026 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2028 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2029 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2030 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2032 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2034 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2035 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2036 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2037 which parts a signature part applies).
2039 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2041 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2042 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2043 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2044 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2045 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2048 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2050 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2051 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2052 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2053 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2054 by translating it internally to the new call.
2056 Performance improvements
2057 ------------------------
2059 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2061 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2062 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2063 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2065 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2066 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2068 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2070 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2071 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2072 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2074 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2075 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2076 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2077 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2079 Faster initial indexing
2081 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2082 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2083 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2085 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2087 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2088 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2089 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2090 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2092 New emacs-interface features
2093 ----------------------------
2095 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2097 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2098 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2099 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2100 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2101 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2102 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2104 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2106 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2107 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2108 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2109 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2111 User-selectable From address
2113 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2114 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2115 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2116 will prompt for the from address to use.
2118 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2119 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2120 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2122 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2123 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2124 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2127 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2129 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2130 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2132 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2134 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2136 ----- Original Message -----
2138 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2139 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2140 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2141 citations work much like conventional citations.
2143 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2145 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2146 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2147 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2148 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2149 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2151 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2152 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2154 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2156 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2157 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2158 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2160 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2162 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2163 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2164 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2165 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2166 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2168 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2170 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2173 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2175 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2177 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2179 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2182 Vim interface improvements
2183 --------------------------
2185 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2187 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2188 * Implementing archive in show view
2189 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2190 * Add delete commands
2193 Bindings improvements
2194 ---------------------
2196 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2198 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2199 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2201 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2203 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2207 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2208 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2209 `list(Messages)` works now
2210 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2212 These allow, for example:
2214 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2216 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2218 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2224 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2226 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2229 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2231 New build-system features
2232 -------------------------
2234 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2236 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2237 the configure script from some other directory:
2244 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2246 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2247 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2248 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2249 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2250 manual invocation of configure.
2252 New test-suite feature
2253 ----------------------
2255 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2257 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2258 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2259 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2260 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2261 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2264 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2266 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2267 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2268 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2269 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2270 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2271 are updated to take advantage of this.
2273 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2275 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2276 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2277 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2278 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2284 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2286 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2287 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2288 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2290 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2292 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2294 to:user@elsewhere.com
2296 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2298 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2300 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2302 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2303 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2304 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2307 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2308 from the Received headers in some cases
2310 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2311 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2313 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2315 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2317 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2319 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2320 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2321 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2323 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2324 -------------------------
2326 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2328 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2329 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2330 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2332 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2334 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2335 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2336 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2339 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2341 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2342 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2343 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2344 fixed to avoid this bug.
2346 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2348 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2349 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2351 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2352 ========================
2354 New, general features
2355 ---------------------
2357 Maildir-flag synchronization
2359 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2360 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2369 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2371 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2372 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2373 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2374 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2376 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2377 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2378 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2379 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2382 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2384 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2385 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2386 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2388 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2389 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2391 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2392 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2394 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2395 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2396 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2398 New library features
2399 --------------------
2401 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2403 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2404 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2405 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2406 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2408 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2409 message with the new function:
2411 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2413 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2414 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2415 over all available filenames for a given message.
2417 New command-line features
2418 -------------------------
2420 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2422 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2423 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2424 access to the mail store itself.
2426 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2427 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2428 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2429 name of a script containing:
2431 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2433 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2434 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2440 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2442 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2444 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2446 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2447 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2448 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2449 now produces nothing).
2451 Emacs interface improvements
2452 ----------------------------
2454 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2456 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2458 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2460 Display current thread subject in a header line
2462 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2464 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2466 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2467 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2468 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2469 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2470 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2471 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2472 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2474 Vim interface improvements
2475 --------------------------
2477 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2479 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2480 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2486 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2488 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2489 ========================
2491 New command-line features
2492 -------------------------
2494 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2496 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2497 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2498 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2500 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2501 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2502 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2503 scripts. For example:
2505 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2506 <operations-on> "$file"
2509 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2511 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2512 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2513 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2514 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2515 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2516 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2518 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2520 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2521 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2522 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2523 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2525 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2527 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2528 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2529 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2530 default rather than Bcc.
2532 New library features
2533 --------------------
2535 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2537 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2538 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2543 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2545 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2546 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2547 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2548 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2549 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2550 notmuch customize interface.
2552 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2554 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2555 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2556 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2557 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2559 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2561 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2562 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2563 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2564 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2566 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2568 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2569 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2570 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2571 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2572 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2573 notmuch customize interface.
2575 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2577 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2578 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2579 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2580 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2581 notmuch customize interface.
2583 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2585 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2586 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2587 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2588 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2591 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2593 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2594 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2595 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2598 New build-system features
2599 -------------------------
2601 Various portability fixes have been applied
2603 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2604 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2605 more portable than ever before.
2607 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2609 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2610 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2611 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2613 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2614 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2615 automatically run ldconfig.
2617 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2618 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2619 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2621 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2622 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2623 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2624 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2626 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2628 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2629 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2630 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2631 used in the resulting Makefile.
2633 New test-suite features
2634 -----------------------
2636 New modularization of test suite
2638 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2639 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2640 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2641 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2642 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2643 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2644 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2645 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2647 New testing of emacs interface
2649 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2650 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2651 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2652 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2653 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2654 database via the FCC setting.
2659 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2661 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2662 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2663 persistent error of the form:
2665 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2667 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2668 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2670 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2672 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2673 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2674 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2676 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2678 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2679 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2680 parsing the notmuch results).
2682 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2684 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2687 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2688 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2689 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2694 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2696 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2697 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2698 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2699 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2700 the emacs interface.
2702 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2704 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2705 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2706 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2708 Python-binding fixes
2709 --------------------
2711 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2713 Debian-specific fixes
2714 ---------------------
2716 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2718 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2719 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2720 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2723 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2724 ==========================
2729 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2731 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2732 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2733 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2734 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2736 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2738 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2739 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2740 want notmuch to crash.
2745 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2747 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2748 directory does not exist
2753 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2755 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2756 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2758 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2759 ========================
2761 New command-line features
2762 -------------------------
2764 User-configurable tags for new messages
2766 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2767 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2768 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2769 to specify this value.
2771 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2773 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2774 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2775 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2777 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2779 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2780 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2782 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2784 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2785 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2786 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2787 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2788 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2791 Indication of author names that match a search
2793 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2794 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2795 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2796 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2797 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2798 messages in the thread are listed first.
2800 New: Python bindings
2801 --------------------
2803 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2804 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2805 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2806 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2808 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2809 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2810 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2813 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2814 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2815 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2817 Emacs interface improvements
2818 ----------------------------
2820 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2822 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2823 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2824 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2825 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2826 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2827 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2828 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2829 but without any of the disadvantages).
2831 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2832 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2833 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2836 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2837 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2838 instead running something like:
2840 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2842 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2843 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2844 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2847 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2849 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2850 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2851 tweaked by the user.
2853 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2854 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2855 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2858 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2859 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2860 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2863 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2865 This support currently relies on an external program,
2866 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2867 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2868 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2869 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2870 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2873 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2874 notmuch) is available via:
2876 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2878 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2879 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2880 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2882 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2884 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2885 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2886 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2887 making this automatic in a future release.
2889 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2891 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2892 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2893 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2894 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2895 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2896 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2899 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2901 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2902 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2903 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2905 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2907 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2908 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2909 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2911 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2912 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2913 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2914 other representation.
2916 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2917 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2920 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2922 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2923 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2924 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2926 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2927 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2928 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2930 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2932 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2933 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2934 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2935 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2936 to display the search result.
2938 More flexible handling of header visibility
2940 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2941 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2942 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2943 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2944 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2945 with the 'h' keybinding.
2947 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2948 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2949 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2951 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2953 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2955 Customizable formatting of search results
2957 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2958 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2959 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2961 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2963 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2965 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2970 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2972 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2973 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2974 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2975 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2981 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2983 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2984 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2986 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2988 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2989 accept are now all accepted.
2994 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2996 Better display of output from failed tests
2998 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2999 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3001 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3002 ========================
3004 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3005 detailed release notes this time!
3007 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3008 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3010 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3011 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3012 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3013 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3020 Better guessing of From: header
3022 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3023 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3024 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3025 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3026 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3029 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3031 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3032 guaranteed to match all messages.
3034 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3036 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3037 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3038 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3039 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3040 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3043 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3046 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3047 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3048 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3049 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3054 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3056 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3057 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3058 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3059 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3061 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3063 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3065 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3066 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3067 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3069 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3071 Previously, the user might see:
3073 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3077 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3079 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3080 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3081 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3082 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3084 Emacs client features
3085 ---------------------
3087 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3089 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3090 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3091 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3092 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3093 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3095 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3098 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3099 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3100 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3101 search with the '*' binding.
3103 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3105 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3106 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3109 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3111 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3112 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3113 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3115 Build-system features
3116 ---------------------
3118 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3120 Add support to configure for many standard options
3122 We include actual support for:
3124 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3126 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3128 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3129 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3131 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3132 separate "make install-emacs"
3134 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3136 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3137 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3138 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3140 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3143 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3144 ========================
3146 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3148 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3149 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3151 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3152 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3153 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3154 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3155 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3156 tags from messages in a thread.
3163 indent-tabs-mode: nil