1 Notmuch 0.38.3 (2024-03-09)
2 ===========================
7 Fix a bug in configuration code that caused the notmuch command to
8 erroneously report "Error: could not locate database" under some
11 Notmuch 0.38.2 (2023-12-01)
12 ===========================
17 Make sorting of string maps lexicographic on (key,value) pairs. This
18 avoids some test failures due to variation in message property output
24 Avoid extra separators after the last address in `notmuch-emacs-mua`.
27 Notmuch 0.38.1 (2023-10-26)
28 ===========================
33 Report parse errors in config files.
38 Fix image toggling for Emacs >= 29.1.
43 Fix syntax error in script.
45 Notmuch 0.38 (2023-09-12)
46 =========================
51 Support relative lastmod queries (see notmuch-sexp-queries(7) and
52 notmuch-search-terms(7) for details).
54 Support indexing of designated attachments as text (see
55 notmuch-config(1) for details).
60 Add options --offset and --limit to notmuch-show(1).
65 New commands notmuch-search-edit-search and notmuch-tree-edit-search.
67 Introduce notmuch-tree-outline-mode.
69 Some compatibility fixes for Emacs 29. At least one issue (hiding
70 images) remains in 0.38.
72 Support completion when piping to external command.
74 Fix regression in updating tag display introduced by 0.37.
79 Fix bug creating database when database.path is not set.
81 Incremental performance improvements for message deletion.
83 Catch Xapian exceptions when deleting messages.
85 Sync removed message properties to the database.
87 Replace use of thread-unsafe Query::MatchAll in the infix query
93 Be more careful when clearing the results directory.
98 Use `database_open_with_config`, and provide compatible path search
101 Bugfix for query.get_sort
106 Support testing installed version of notmuch.
108 Adapt to some breaking changes in glib handling of init files.
110 Replace OpenPGP key used in test suite.
115 Update signatures for performance test corpus.
117 Notmuch 0.37 (2022-08-21)
118 =========================
123 Fix uninitialized field in message objects.
125 Improve exception handling and error propagation for message objects.
130 Add one sided lastmod ranges for sexp queries.
132 Expand macro parameters inside regex and wildcard modifiers.
134 Command Line Interface
135 ----------------------
137 `notmuch help` now works for external commands.
139 `NOTMUCH_CONFIG` is now passed to external commands and hooks.
141 Promote the development tool `nmbug` to a user facing tool
142 `notmuch-git`. See notmuch-git(1) for details.
147 The function `notmuch-mua-mail` now moves point depending on the
150 Restrict what mime types are inlined in replies and on refresh.
152 The functions in notmuch-query.el are now obsolete and may be removed
153 in a future version of Notmuch.
155 Add some controls for lazy display of message bodies (See "Dealing
156 with large messages and threads" in the notmuch-emacs documentation).
158 Allow the user to select (with '%') a different duplicate message file
161 Use `message-dont-reply-to-names` in `notmuch-message-mode`.
163 Support custom header-line format for notmuch-show mode.
165 Notmuch 0.36 (2022-04-25)
166 =========================
171 Add the `sexp` prefix to the infix (traditional) query parser. This
172 allows specific subqueries to be parsed by the sexp parser (with
173 appropriate quoting). See `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
175 Add another heuristic to regexp fields to prevent phrase parsing of
176 bracketed sub-expressions.
178 Command Line Interface
179 ----------------------
181 Envelope from ("From ") headers are now escaped as X-Envelope-From: in
182 input to `notmuch-insert`. This prevents creating mbox files when
183 calling `notmuch-insert` from e.g. `postfix`.
185 Python (CFFI) Bindings
186 ----------------------
188 Use the `config_pairs` API in ConfigIterator. This returns all
189 matching key-value pairs, not just those that happen to be stored in
195 Reorganize documentation for `notmuch-config`. Add a few links from
201 Bind the usual undo key sequences to new command
202 "notmuch-tag-undo". This allows transparent undo of tagging
208 Fix smime.4 with newer gmime. Unset `XDG_DATA_HOME` and `MAILDIR` for tests.
210 New add-on tool: notmuch-web
211 -----------------------------
213 The new devel/ tool `notmuch-web` is a very thin web client. It
214 supports a full search interface for one user: there is no facility
215 for multiple users provided today. See the notmuch-web README file
216 for more information.
218 Be careful about running it on a network-connected system: it will
219 expose a web interface that requires no authentication but exposes
222 Notmuch 0.35 (2022-02-06)
223 =========================
228 Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
230 Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
232 Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
233 `built_with.sexp_queries`.
235 Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
237 Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
242 Improve handling of leading/trailing punctuation and space for
245 Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
247 Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
248 `show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
253 Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
255 Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
258 Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
259 third party completion frameworks.
261 Make citation formatting more robust against whitespace.
263 Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
265 Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
266 signed and/or encrypted messages.
268 Add notmuch-logo.svg and use it in notmuch-hello view, replacing
271 Make header line in show buffers optional.
273 Add customizable names for search buffers.
278 Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
280 Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
281 installed version of notmuch.
283 Ignore more configure options.
288 Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
291 Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
296 Add `matched` property to message objects.
298 Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
299 deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
305 Use `database.mail_root` for path completion in bash/zsh.
307 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
308 ===========================
313 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
314 xapian/ subdirectory.
316 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
317 --------------------------
319 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
320 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
322 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
323 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
325 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
328 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
329 ===========================
334 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
335 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
336 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
338 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
339 --------------------------
341 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
342 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
344 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
345 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
346 and database location options as the library does.
348 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
350 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
351 ===========================
356 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
357 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
358 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
359 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
360 status returns for the same 3 functions.
362 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
363 =========================
368 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
369 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
370 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
371 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
372 s-expression query support.
377 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
382 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
384 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
386 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
388 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
390 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
391 ===========================
396 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
398 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
399 ===========================
404 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
405 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
408 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
409 =========================
414 Correct documentation about transactions.
416 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
417 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
419 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
424 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
430 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
431 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
432 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
434 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
436 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
438 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
440 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
442 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
444 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
447 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
452 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
453 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
454 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
455 split, following an old library API change.
460 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
465 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
467 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
469 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
470 ===========================
475 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
478 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
481 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
482 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
487 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
489 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
490 ===========================
495 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
501 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
506 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
511 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
516 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
517 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
519 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
520 ===========================
525 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
526 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
527 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
529 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
530 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
531 database in a pre-new hook.
533 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
534 default worked only in "notmuch config".
539 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
540 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
542 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
543 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
544 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
546 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
547 =========================
552 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
553 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
554 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
555 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
556 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
557 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
558 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
559 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
560 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
561 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
562 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
567 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
568 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
570 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
571 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
572 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
573 - `notmuch_config_get`
575 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
576 now exposed (and generalized).
578 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
579 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
580 session has been fixed.
582 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
583 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
588 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
589 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
591 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
592 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
597 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
598 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
599 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
600 when prompting for senders.
602 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
603 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
606 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
608 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
610 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
611 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
612 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
613 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
614 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
615 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
616 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
618 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
619 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
621 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
622 you should change it to:
623 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
625 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
626 ===========================
631 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
636 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
638 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
639 ===========================
644 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
649 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
654 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
656 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
657 ===========================
662 Catch one more occurrence of "version" in the build system, which
663 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
665 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
666 ===========================
671 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
676 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
677 with a C++ header for some compilers.
679 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
681 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
682 =========================
687 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
688 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
689 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
691 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
693 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
695 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
697 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
700 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
702 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
703 search, show and tree mode)
705 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
708 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
711 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
712 always be newest first.
717 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
718 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
719 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
725 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
726 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
727 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
728 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
730 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
731 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
732 non-status providing versions.
734 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
735 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
737 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
738 promised in the documentation.
743 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
744 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
745 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
750 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
751 development version).
756 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
761 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
763 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
764 =========================
769 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
770 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
771 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
774 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
780 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
781 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
782 notmuch-properties(7)).
787 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
788 has protected headers (see
789 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
790 notmuch-properties(7)).
795 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
797 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
798 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
804 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
807 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
808 ===========================
813 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
815 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
820 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
822 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
823 ===========================
828 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
829 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
831 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
832 ===========================
837 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
839 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
840 =========================
845 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
846 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
849 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
850 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
851 the set of headers to be indexed.
853 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
856 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
857 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
858 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
861 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
862 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
863 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
865 Command Line Interface
866 ----------------------
868 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
871 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
873 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
874 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
875 more details about what is included there. This status includes
876 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
881 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
882 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
884 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
886 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
888 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
890 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
892 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
895 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
897 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
898 and may be removed in a future release.
900 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
906 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
908 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
909 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
914 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
915 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
916 cryptography support.
921 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
922 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
923 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
925 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
926 ===========================
928 Command line interface
929 ----------------------
931 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
932 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
934 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
935 ===========================
940 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
941 by message properties.
946 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
948 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
949 ===========================
954 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
959 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
960 now needed to build this documentation.
962 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
963 ===========================
968 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
969 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
971 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
972 =========================
979 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
980 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
981 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
982 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
983 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
986 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
988 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
989 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
990 correct encoding for such messages.
992 Command Line Interface
993 ----------------------
995 Support relative database paths
997 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
998 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
999 to $HOME of the invoking user.
1004 Improve stderr handling
1006 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
1007 needed on e.g. macOS.
1009 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
1011 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
1016 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
1017 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
1023 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
1024 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
1030 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
1031 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
1034 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
1035 =========================
1040 Add support for thread:{} queries
1042 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
1043 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
1044 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
1046 Command Line Interface
1047 ----------------------
1049 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
1051 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
1053 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
1055 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
1056 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
1057 does not have to be available during message receipt.
1062 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
1068 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
1069 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
1071 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
1072 ===========================
1077 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
1079 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
1080 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
1081 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
1083 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
1085 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
1086 related abort in `notmuch show`.
1088 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
1089 ===========================
1094 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
1095 better late than never.
1098 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
1099 =========================
1101 Command Line Interface
1102 ----------------------
1104 Support for re-indexing existing messages
1106 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
1107 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
1108 change the way specific messages are indexed.
1110 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
1111 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
1112 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
1114 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
1116 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
1118 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
1120 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
1121 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
1122 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
1123 the setting of `new.tags`.
1125 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
1127 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
1129 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
1131 This inserts into the top level folder.
1133 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
1135 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
1137 New option --output=address for notmuch address
1139 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
1141 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
1143 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
1144 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
1145 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
1147 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
1152 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
1154 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
1155 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
1156 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
1157 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
1158 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
1159 config set index.decrypt true".
1161 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
1162 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
1163 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
1164 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
1165 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
1166 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
1167 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
1168 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
1170 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
1171 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
1172 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
1173 this feature without considering the security of your index.
1178 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
1180 Use make-process when available
1182 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
1183 notmuch command without using temporary files.
1188 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
1190 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
1191 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
1192 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
1193 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
1195 New functions to count files
1197 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
1198 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
1200 New function to remove properties
1202 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
1203 drop all properties with a common pattern:
1204 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
1206 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
1208 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
1209 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
1210 possibility of NULL was not documented.
1212 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
1214 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
1215 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
1216 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
1217 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
1218 operator may decide to change from message to message.
1225 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
1226 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
1227 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
1233 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
1235 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
1236 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
1238 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
1240 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
1242 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
1244 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
1249 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
1250 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
1252 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
1253 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
1254 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
1255 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
1256 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
1257 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
1262 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
1264 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
1265 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
1266 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
1267 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
1269 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
1270 ===========================
1275 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
1276 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
1279 Command Line Interface
1280 ----------------------
1282 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
1283 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
1286 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
1287 ===========================
1289 Command Line Interface
1290 ----------------------
1292 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
1293 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
1298 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
1301 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
1302 ===========================
1307 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1310 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1311 =========================
1316 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1318 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1320 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1322 Command Line Interface
1323 ----------------------
1325 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1327 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1332 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1334 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1335 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1338 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1343 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1345 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1346 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1348 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1350 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1351 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1354 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1356 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1358 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1360 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1361 ===========================
1363 Command Line Interface
1364 ----------------------
1366 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1371 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1373 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1374 ===========================
1379 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1381 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1382 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1385 Command Line Interface
1386 ----------------------
1388 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1390 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1392 Fix bug in dump header
1394 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1395 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1396 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1401 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1403 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1404 =========================
1409 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1411 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1414 Command Line Interface
1415 ----------------------
1417 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1419 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1420 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1421 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1423 New default output format to 3
1425 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1426 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1427 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1428 default format changes.
1433 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1435 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1436 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1437 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1438 or tree view to resume.
1440 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1441 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1442 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1445 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1446 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1450 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1451 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1452 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1453 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1454 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1458 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1459 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1460 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1461 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1462 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1463 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1467 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1468 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1470 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1472 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1473 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1474 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1475 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1476 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1477 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1478 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1479 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1482 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1484 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1485 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1486 only tagged the current thread.)
1488 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1490 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1491 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1492 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1494 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1496 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1497 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1498 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1499 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1500 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1501 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1502 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1504 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1506 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1507 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1508 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1513 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1515 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1518 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1520 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1523 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1524 ===========================
1529 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1531 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1532 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1533 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1536 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1537 ===========================
1539 Command Line Interface
1540 ----------------------
1542 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1547 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1549 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1550 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1551 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1553 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1554 ===========================
1559 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1560 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1562 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1563 ===========================
1565 Command Line Interface
1566 ----------------------
1568 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1570 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1571 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1572 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1577 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1579 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1580 ===========================
1582 Command Line Interface
1583 ----------------------
1585 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1590 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1592 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1593 ===========================
1598 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1600 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1601 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1602 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1604 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1606 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1608 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1609 ===========================
1614 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1616 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1621 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1623 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1624 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1625 the original colours.
1627 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1628 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1630 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1632 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1633 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1634 bug, and hence the test.
1636 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1637 =========================
1639 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1640 ---------------------
1642 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1644 Support for single argument date: queries
1646 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1648 Support for blocking opens
1650 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1651 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1653 Support for named queries
1655 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1656 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1657 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1662 Message property API
1664 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1665 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1666 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1667 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1669 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1671 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1676 Support for compile time options
1678 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1679 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1682 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1684 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1685 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1686 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1687 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1688 scripts to ignore it.
1693 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1695 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1696 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1697 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1699 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1700 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1701 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1702 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1703 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1704 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1705 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1707 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1708 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1711 Make internal address completion customizable
1713 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1714 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1715 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1716 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1719 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1721 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1722 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1723 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1724 completion for the current buffer.
1726 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1727 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1728 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1732 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1733 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1734 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1735 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1736 will be added instead.
1738 Face customization is easier
1740 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1741 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1742 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1743 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1745 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1750 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1755 Go bindings moved to contrib
1757 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1759 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1761 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1762 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1764 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1766 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1767 ===========================
1774 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1775 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1777 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1779 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1781 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1782 ===========================
1787 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1789 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1794 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1799 Use `env` to locate perl.
1804 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1806 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1808 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1810 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1812 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1813 =========================
1820 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1821 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1823 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1825 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1826 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1827 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1832 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1833 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1834 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1836 Command Line Interface
1837 ----------------------
1839 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1841 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1846 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1851 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1853 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1854 parts are now included in replies.
1856 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1857 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1858 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1859 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1861 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1863 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1865 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1867 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1868 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1869 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1870 forwards only the current message.
1872 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1874 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1875 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1876 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1877 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1878 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1879 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1880 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1881 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1884 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1885 longer generate empty buffers
1887 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1888 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1889 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1890 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1891 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1893 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1895 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1898 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1900 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1903 Address completion improvements
1905 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1906 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1907 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1908 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1909 interactive address completion.
1911 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1913 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1914 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1915 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1920 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1921 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1922 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1928 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1929 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1930 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1931 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1932 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1933 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1935 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1936 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1937 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1938 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1939 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1940 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1942 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1943 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1945 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1946 =========================
1951 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1954 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1956 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1957 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1958 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1960 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1961 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1963 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1964 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1965 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1967 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1969 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1970 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1971 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1972 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1973 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1974 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1979 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1980 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1983 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1984 option to configure.
1986 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1988 Command Line Interface
1989 ----------------------
1991 Database revision tracking
1993 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1994 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1995 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1996 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1998 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
2000 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
2001 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
2002 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
2003 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
2004 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
2005 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
2006 manual page for further information.
2011 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
2013 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
2014 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
2016 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
2018 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
2019 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
2020 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
2022 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
2024 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
2026 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
2027 customization as well.
2029 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
2031 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
2033 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
2035 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
2037 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
2038 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
2039 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
2040 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2042 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
2044 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
2045 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
2046 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
2047 this variable to 10000.
2052 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
2053 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
2055 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
2057 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
2058 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
2059 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
2060 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
2061 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
2062 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
2063 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
2064 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
2065 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
2068 Database revision tracking
2070 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
2071 query parser and the new function
2072 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
2074 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
2076 Deprecated functions
2078 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
2079 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
2080 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
2081 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
2086 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
2088 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
2089 ===========================
2094 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
2096 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
2097 ===========================
2102 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
2104 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
2105 =========================
2107 Command-Line Interface
2108 ----------------------
2110 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
2112 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
2113 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
2114 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
2116 Path to gpg is now configurable
2118 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
2119 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
2124 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
2126 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
2131 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
2136 Support messages without Message-IDs.
2141 Undeprecate single message mboxes
2143 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
2144 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
2146 New error logging facility
2148 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
2149 output formerly printed to stderr.
2151 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
2153 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
2155 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
2157 Fix for rounding of seconds
2162 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
2164 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
2165 documentation has been removed.
2167 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
2169 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
2170 some material from the relicensed wiki.
2175 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
2176 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
2177 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
2182 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
2183 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
2184 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
2185 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
2186 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
2187 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
2190 git checkout config origin/config
2192 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
2194 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
2195 =========================
2200 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
2201 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
2202 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
2203 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
2204 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
2205 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
2206 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
2208 Command-Line Interface
2209 ----------------------
2211 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
2213 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
2214 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
2215 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
2216 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
2217 script callers should still check the return value.
2219 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
2221 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
2222 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
2223 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
2224 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
2225 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
2226 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
2227 and returning success even if indexing fails).
2229 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
2231 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
2232 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
2233 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
2235 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
2237 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
2238 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
2239 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
2240 currently unmaintained.
2242 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
2244 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
2245 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
2246 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
2247 have at least `N` files associated with them.
2249 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
2251 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
2252 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
2253 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
2254 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
2255 count of duplicate addresses.
2260 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
2262 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
2263 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
2264 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
2267 Improved handling of the unread tag
2269 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
2270 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
2271 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
2272 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
2273 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
2274 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
2275 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
2277 Expanded default saved search settings
2279 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
2280 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
2282 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
2284 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
2285 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
2286 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
2288 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
2290 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
2291 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
2292 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
2293 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
2294 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
2295 the variable for details.
2300 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
2302 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2303 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2304 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2305 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2307 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2309 Previously, library users were required to call
2310 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2311 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2312 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2313 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2314 too out of date for that API.
2316 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2318 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2319 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2320 atomic section will be aborted.
2322 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2323 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2325 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2327 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2328 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2329 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2330 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2331 messages into the same thread.
2336 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2337 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2338 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2339 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2340 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2341 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2346 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2347 from the config file. Use something like:
2351 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2352 "footer": "</body></html>",
2361 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2366 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2367 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2368 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2370 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2371 ===========================
2376 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2378 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2380 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2382 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2383 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2385 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2387 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2390 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2391 ===========================
2393 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2398 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2400 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2402 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2404 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2406 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2412 Use --quick when starting emacs
2414 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2416 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2418 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2420 Command-Line Interface
2421 ----------------------
2423 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2424 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2429 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2431 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2432 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2434 Fix for phrase indexing
2436 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2437 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2438 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2443 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2445 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2446 unintentionally removed.
2448 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2449 =========================
2454 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2455 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2456 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2457 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2458 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2459 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2460 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2461 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2462 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2468 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2470 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2471 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2472 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2473 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2474 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2475 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2476 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2477 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2479 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2481 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2482 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2483 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2484 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2487 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2489 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2490 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2491 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2492 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2493 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2494 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2495 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2500 Notmuch database upgrade
2502 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2503 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2504 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2505 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2506 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2507 released version of Notmuch before now.
2509 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2511 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2512 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2513 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2514 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2516 Message header parsing changes
2518 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2519 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2520 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2521 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2522 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2523 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2525 Command-Line Interface
2526 ----------------------
2528 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2530 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2532 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2534 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2536 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2538 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2539 user does not want it.
2541 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2543 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2544 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2545 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2546 support formatted output.
2548 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2550 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2551 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2552 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2560 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2561 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2562 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2563 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2564 `~/.emacs` with these.
2566 Changed format for saved searches
2568 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2569 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2570 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2571 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2574 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2575 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2576 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2577 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2579 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2580 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2581 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2583 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2584 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2585 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2586 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2587 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2589 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2591 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2592 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2593 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2595 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2597 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2598 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2599 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2600 message had been unread).
2602 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2603 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2604 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2605 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2607 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2608 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2609 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2611 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2612 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2613 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2614 to tags already present.
2618 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2619 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2620 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2621 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2622 these differ from each other.
2623 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2625 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2627 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2628 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2629 for these Emacs versions.
2631 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2633 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2634 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2636 Bug fixes for sender identities
2638 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2639 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2640 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2642 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2644 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2645 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2646 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2647 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2649 Reply pushes mark before signature
2651 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2652 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2653 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2655 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2657 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2658 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2664 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2665 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2667 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2668 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2669 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2670 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2672 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2673 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2674 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2675 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2676 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2678 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2680 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2681 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2683 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2684 =========================
2686 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2687 ---------------------------------------
2689 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2690 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2691 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2692 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2693 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2694 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2695 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2699 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2700 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2702 Command-Line Interface
2703 ----------------------
2705 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2707 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2708 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2709 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2710 print for each message.
2712 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2713 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2714 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2715 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2717 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2719 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2720 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2721 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2723 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2725 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2726 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2727 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2728 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2730 `notmuch compact` command
2732 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2733 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2734 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2735 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2736 move the compacted database into place.
2741 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2743 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2744 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2745 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2746 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2747 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2748 and multiple threads.
2750 Using `notmuch-tree`
2752 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2754 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2755 search, show and tree mode itself)
2757 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2760 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2761 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2763 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2765 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2766 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2767 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2768 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2769 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2770 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2771 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2773 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2775 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2776 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2777 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2778 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2779 thread when the search was performed.
2781 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2783 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2784 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2785 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2787 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2789 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2790 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2793 Built-in help improvements
2795 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2796 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2797 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2799 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2801 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2802 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2803 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2805 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2807 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2808 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2810 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2812 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2813 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2814 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2815 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2817 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2819 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2820 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2821 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2822 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2824 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2826 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2827 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2828 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2830 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2832 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2833 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2834 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2836 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2838 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2839 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2840 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2841 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2842 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2844 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2846 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2847 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2848 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2849 the body part of the message.
2854 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2855 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2856 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2858 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2859 =========================
2861 Command-Line Interface
2862 ----------------------
2864 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2866 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2867 folder and notmuch index.
2869 `notmuch count --batch` option
2871 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2872 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2874 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2876 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2877 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2878 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2881 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2883 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2884 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2885 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2886 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2887 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2890 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2892 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2893 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2895 Top level option to specify configuration file
2897 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2898 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2900 Bash command-line completion
2902 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2903 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2904 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2905 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2906 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2907 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2908 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2909 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2910 bash-completion package.
2912 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2917 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2919 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2920 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2921 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2922 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2923 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2924 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2925 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2926 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2928 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2930 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2931 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2932 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2934 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2936 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2937 previous thread in the search results.
2939 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2941 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2942 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2944 Faster search and show
2946 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2947 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2948 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2949 threads should show faster.
2953 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2954 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2955 in question was now removed from this release.
2960 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2961 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2966 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2968 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2969 ===========================
2974 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2976 Internal test framework changes
2977 -------------------------------
2979 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2980 being unimplemented.
2982 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2983 ===========================
2985 Internal test framework changes
2986 -------------------------------
2988 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2989 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2991 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2992 =========================
2997 Date range search support
2999 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
3000 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
3001 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
3002 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
3003 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
3006 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
3008 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
3009 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
3010 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
3011 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
3012 but may be removed in a future release.
3014 Command-Line Interface
3015 ----------------------
3017 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
3019 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
3020 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
3022 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
3024 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
3025 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
3026 officially deprecated.
3028 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
3030 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
3031 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
3032 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
3034 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
3036 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
3037 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
3040 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
3041 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
3042 dump/restore format.
3044 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
3046 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
3047 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
3048 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
3050 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
3052 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
3053 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
3054 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
3056 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
3058 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
3059 output separated by null characters rather than newline
3060 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
3061 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
3066 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
3068 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
3069 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
3070 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
3071 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
3073 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
3075 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
3076 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
3077 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
3078 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
3079 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
3080 the behavior of this, see
3081 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
3082 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
3084 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
3085 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
3086 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
3088 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
3090 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
3091 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
3094 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
3096 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
3097 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
3098 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
3099 simply displayed in place of the message.
3101 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
3103 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
3104 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
3106 Improved text/calendar content handling
3108 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
3109 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
3110 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
3111 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
3113 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
3115 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
3116 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
3117 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
3118 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
3120 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
3122 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
3123 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
3124 for HTML email containing images.
3126 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
3128 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
3130 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
3132 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
3135 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
3137 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
3138 the point where it was.
3140 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
3142 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
3143 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
3144 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
3145 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
3146 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
3148 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
3150 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
3151 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
3152 thread instead of the message id.
3154 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
3155 -----------------------------
3157 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
3158 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
3159 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
3160 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
3161 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
3162 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
3163 further details and installation.
3168 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
3170 Internal test framework changes
3171 -------------------------------
3173 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
3175 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
3176 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
3177 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
3178 can result in buggy behavior.
3180 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
3181 =========================
3186 Maildir tag synchronization
3188 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
3189 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
3190 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
3191 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
3192 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
3193 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
3196 Command-Line Interface
3197 ----------------------
3199 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
3200 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
3201 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
3202 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
3203 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
3209 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
3211 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
3213 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
3214 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
3215 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
3217 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
3219 It is now possible to embed newlines in
3220 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
3221 span multiple lines.
3223 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
3225 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
3226 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
3227 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
3228 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
3229 inside the result or message.
3231 Search now uses the JSON format internally
3233 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
3234 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
3236 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
3237 user-specified formatting
3239 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
3240 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
3241 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
3242 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
3243 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
3245 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
3246 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
3248 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
3249 ===========================
3254 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
3255 compilation error for this contrib package.
3257 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
3258 ===========================
3263 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
3265 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
3266 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
3267 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
3268 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
3270 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
3271 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
3274 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
3275 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
3276 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
3277 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
3280 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
3282 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
3285 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
3286 =========================
3288 Command-Line Interface
3289 ----------------------
3293 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
3294 for a reply message and full information about the original message
3295 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
3296 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
3298 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
3299 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
3300 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
3301 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3305 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3306 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3308 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3309 tag in your query, for example:
3311 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3313 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3314 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3316 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3317 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3319 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3321 Raw show format changes
3323 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3324 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3325 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3326 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3327 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3328 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3329 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3330 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3332 Listing configuration items
3334 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3340 Changes to tagging interface
3342 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3343 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3344 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3345 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3346 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3347 for more information.
3349 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3350 may need to update in custom configurations.
3352 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3354 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3355 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3356 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3357 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3360 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3361 -----------------------------
3363 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3364 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3365 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3366 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3367 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3368 contrib/ from now on.
3373 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3374 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3376 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3377 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3379 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3380 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3381 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3383 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3384 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3386 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3387 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3388 returning the new database object or directory object.
3395 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3396 compatible with go 1.
3398 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3399 =========================
3401 Command-Line Interface
3402 ----------------------
3406 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3407 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3408 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3409 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3411 Mail store folder/file ignore
3413 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3414 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3415 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3417 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3418 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3420 Unified help and manual pages
3422 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3423 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3426 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3428 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3429 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3437 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3438 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3439 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3440 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3442 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3444 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3445 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3447 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3450 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3451 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3452 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3454 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3456 should be changed to:
3458 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3460 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3462 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3463 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3465 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3467 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3468 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3469 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3470 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3471 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3472 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3476 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3477 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3478 of Mailing List Archives.
3480 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3482 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3483 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3486 Show view archiving key binding changes
3488 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3489 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3490 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3491 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3492 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3495 Support text/calendar MIME type
3497 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3500 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3502 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3503 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3504 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3505 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3507 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3509 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3510 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3511 messages blue by default in the search view.
3515 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3516 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3523 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3526 Python bindings changes
3527 -----------------------
3529 Python 3.2 compatibility
3531 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3533 Added missing unicode conversions
3535 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3536 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3537 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3542 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3544 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3545 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3546 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3547 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3548 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3550 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3551 ===========================
3556 Fix error handling in python bindings
3558 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3559 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3560 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3561 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3563 Quote MML tags in replies
3565 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3566 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3567 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3568 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3569 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3570 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3571 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3572 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3574 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3575 =========================
3577 Command-Line Interface
3578 ----------------------
3582 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3583 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3584 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3585 importing new messages into the database.
3587 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3589 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3590 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3591 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3596 Automatic tag query optimization
3598 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3599 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3600 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3602 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3604 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3605 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3606 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3611 Reduction of memory leaks
3613 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3614 and fixed in this release.
3621 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3622 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3623 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3626 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3628 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3629 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3630 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3633 Improvements in saved search management
3635 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3636 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3637 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3639 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3641 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3642 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3643 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3645 New face for crypto parts headers
3647 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3648 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3649 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3652 Use space as default thousands separator
3654 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3655 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3656 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3658 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3659 buttonized id: links
3661 New function notmuch-show-advance
3663 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3664 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3665 be bound to SPC with:
3667 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3669 Various performance improvements
3674 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3675 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3678 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3679 ===========================
3684 Fix crash in python bindings
3686 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3687 for some, but not all users.
3689 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3690 ===========================
3695 Fix `--help` argument
3697 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3698 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3699 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3701 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3702 =========================
3704 New build and testing features
3705 ------------------------------
3707 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3708 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3709 prerequisites is improved.
3711 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3713 New command-line features
3714 -------------------------
3716 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3718 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3719 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3722 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3724 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3725 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3726 favour of using stdout.
3728 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3730 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3731 limit the number of results shown.
3733 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3735 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3736 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3739 New emacs UI features
3740 ---------------------
3742 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3744 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3745 starting with "tag:".
3747 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3749 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3750 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3752 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3754 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3756 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3758 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3759 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3764 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3766 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3768 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3769 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3770 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3771 requires a database rebuild:
3773 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3774 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3776 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3778 New collection of add-on tools
3779 ------------------------------
3781 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3782 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3783 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3786 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3788 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3789 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3790 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3792 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3793 ========================
3795 New, general features
3796 ---------------------
3798 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3800 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3801 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3802 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3803 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3804 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3811 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3812 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3814 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3818 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3819 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3820 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3823 Python bindings changes
3824 -----------------------
3826 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3828 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3829 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3830 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3831 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3832 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3833 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3835 Ruby bindings changes
3836 ---------------------
3838 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3839 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3840 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3841 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3846 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3848 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3849 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3851 Reply formatting cleanup
3852 ------------------------
3854 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3855 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3857 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3858 ========================
3860 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3862 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3863 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3864 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3865 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3868 Improved Build system portability
3870 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3871 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3872 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3874 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3876 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3878 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3880 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3881 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3882 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3884 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3885 ========================
3887 Vim interface improvements
3888 --------------------------
3890 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3892 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3893 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3894 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3895 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3896 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3898 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3900 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3901 * fix compose temp file name
3903 Python Bindings changes
3904 -----------------------
3906 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3908 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3909 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3911 Build-System improvements
3912 -------------------------
3914 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3916 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3919 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3920 ==========================
3925 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3927 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3928 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3930 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3931 =======================
3933 New, general features
3934 ---------------------
3936 Folder-based searching
3938 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3939 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3940 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3944 For example, one might use things such as:
3950 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3951 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3953 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3954 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3955 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3956 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3958 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3959 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3960 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3963 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3964 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3966 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3968 Support for PGP/MIME
3970 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3971 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3972 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3974 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3976 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3977 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3979 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3980 notmuch will receive these tags.
3982 New command-line features
3983 -------------------------
3985 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3987 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3988 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3990 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3992 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3993 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3994 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3996 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3998 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3999 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
4000 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
4001 which parts a signature part applies).
4003 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
4005 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
4006 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
4007 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
4008 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
4009 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
4012 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
4014 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
4015 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
4016 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
4017 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
4018 by translating it internally to the new call.
4020 Performance improvements
4021 ------------------------
4023 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
4025 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
4026 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
4027 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
4029 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
4030 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
4032 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
4034 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
4035 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
4036 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
4038 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
4039 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
4040 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
4041 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
4043 Faster initial indexing
4045 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
4046 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
4047 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
4049 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
4051 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
4052 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
4053 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
4054 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
4056 New emacs-interface features
4057 ----------------------------
4059 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
4061 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
4062 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
4063 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
4064 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
4065 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
4066 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
4068 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
4070 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
4071 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
4072 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
4073 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
4075 User-selectable From address
4077 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
4078 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
4079 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
4080 will prompt for the from address to use.
4082 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
4083 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
4084 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
4086 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
4087 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
4088 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
4091 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
4093 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
4094 its parent, the subject is not shown.
4096 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
4098 When a message contains a line looking something like:
4100 ----- Original Message -----
4102 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
4103 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
4104 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
4105 citations work much like conventional citations.
4107 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
4109 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
4110 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
4111 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
4112 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
4113 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
4115 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
4116 Notmuch After Tag Hook
4118 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
4120 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
4121 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
4122 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
4124 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
4126 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
4127 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
4128 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
4129 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
4130 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
4132 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
4134 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
4137 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
4139 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
4141 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
4143 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
4146 Vim interface improvements
4147 --------------------------
4149 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
4151 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
4152 * Implementing archive in show view
4153 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
4154 * Add delete commands
4157 Bindings improvements
4158 ---------------------
4160 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
4162 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
4163 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
4165 Python bindings have been updated and extended
4167 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
4171 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
4172 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
4173 `list(Messages)` works now
4174 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
4176 These allow, for example:
4178 if msg1 == msg2: ...
4180 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
4182 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
4188 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
4190 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
4193 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
4195 New build-system features
4196 -------------------------
4198 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
4200 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
4201 the configure script from some other directory:
4208 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
4210 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
4211 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
4212 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
4213 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
4214 manual invocation of configure.
4216 New test-suite feature
4217 ----------------------
4219 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
4221 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
4222 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
4223 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
4224 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
4225 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
4228 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
4230 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
4231 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
4232 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
4233 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
4234 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
4235 are updated to take advantage of this.
4237 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
4239 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
4240 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
4241 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
4242 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
4248 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
4250 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
4251 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
4252 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
4254 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
4256 This fixed a bug where a search for:
4258 to:user@elsewhere.com
4260 would incorrectly match a message sent:
4262 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
4264 Fix --output=json when search has no results
4266 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
4267 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
4268 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
4271 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
4272 from the Received headers in some cases
4274 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
4275 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
4277 Cleaned up several memory leaks
4279 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
4281 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
4283 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
4284 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
4285 interface and were never intended to be exported.
4287 Emacs-interface bug fixes
4288 -------------------------
4290 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
4292 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
4293 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
4294 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
4296 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
4298 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
4299 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
4300 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4303 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4305 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4306 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4307 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4308 fixed to avoid this bug.
4310 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4312 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4313 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4315 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4316 ========================
4318 New, general features
4319 ---------------------
4321 Maildir-flag synchronization
4323 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4324 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4333 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4335 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4336 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4337 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4338 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4340 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4341 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4342 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4343 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4346 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4348 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4349 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4350 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4352 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4353 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4355 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4356 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4358 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4359 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4360 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4362 New library features
4363 --------------------
4365 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4367 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4368 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4369 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4370 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4372 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4373 message with the new function:
4375 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4377 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4378 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4379 over all available filenames for a given message.
4381 New command-line features
4382 -------------------------
4384 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4386 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4387 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4388 access to the mail store itself.
4390 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4391 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4392 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4393 name of a script containing:
4395 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4397 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4398 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4404 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4406 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4408 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4410 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4411 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4412 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4413 now produces nothing).
4415 Emacs interface improvements
4416 ----------------------------
4418 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4420 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4422 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4424 Display current thread subject in a header line
4426 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4428 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4430 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4431 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4432 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4433 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4434 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4435 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4436 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4438 Vim interface improvements
4439 --------------------------
4441 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4443 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4444 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4450 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4452 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4453 ========================
4455 New command-line features
4456 -------------------------
4458 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4460 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4461 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4462 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4464 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4465 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4466 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4467 scripts. For example:
4469 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4470 <operations-on> "$file"
4473 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4475 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4476 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4477 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4478 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4479 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4480 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4482 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4484 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4485 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4486 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4487 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4489 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4491 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4492 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4493 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4494 default rather than Bcc.
4496 New library features
4497 --------------------
4499 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4501 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4502 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4507 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4509 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4510 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4511 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4512 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4513 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4514 notmuch customize interface.
4516 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4518 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4519 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4520 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4521 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4523 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4525 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4526 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4527 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4528 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4530 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4532 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4533 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4534 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4535 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4536 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4537 notmuch customize interface.
4539 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4541 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4542 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4543 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4544 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4545 notmuch customize interface.
4547 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4549 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4550 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4551 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4552 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4555 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4557 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4558 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4559 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4562 New build-system features
4563 -------------------------
4565 Various portability fixes have been applied
4567 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4568 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4569 more portable than ever before.
4571 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4573 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4574 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4575 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4577 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4578 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4579 automatically run ldconfig.
4581 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4582 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4583 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4585 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4586 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4587 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4588 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4590 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4592 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4593 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4594 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4595 used in the resulting Makefile.
4597 New test-suite features
4598 -----------------------
4600 New modularization of test suite
4602 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4603 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4604 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4605 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4606 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4607 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4608 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4609 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4611 New testing of emacs interface
4613 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4614 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4615 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4616 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4617 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4618 database via the FCC setting.
4623 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4625 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4626 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4627 persistent error of the form:
4629 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4631 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4632 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4634 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4636 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4637 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4638 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4640 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4642 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4643 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4644 parsing the notmuch results).
4646 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4648 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4651 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4652 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4653 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4658 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4660 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4661 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4662 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4663 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4664 the emacs interface.
4666 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4668 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4669 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4670 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4672 Python-binding fixes
4673 --------------------
4675 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4677 Debian-specific fixes
4678 ---------------------
4680 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4682 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4683 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4684 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4687 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4688 ==========================
4693 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4695 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4696 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4697 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4698 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4700 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4702 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4703 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4704 want notmuch to crash.
4709 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4711 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4712 directory does not exist
4717 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4719 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4720 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4722 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4723 ========================
4725 New command-line features
4726 -------------------------
4728 User-configurable tags for new messages
4730 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4731 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4732 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4733 to specify this value.
4735 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4737 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4738 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4739 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4741 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4743 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4744 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4746 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4748 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4749 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4750 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4751 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4752 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4755 Indication of author names that match a search
4757 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4758 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4759 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4760 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4761 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4762 messages in the thread are listed first.
4764 New: Python bindings
4765 --------------------
4767 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4768 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4769 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4770 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4772 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4773 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4774 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4777 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4778 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4779 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4781 Emacs interface improvements
4782 ----------------------------
4784 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4786 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4787 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4788 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4789 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4790 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4791 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4792 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4793 but without any of the disadvantages).
4795 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4796 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4797 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4800 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4801 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4802 instead running something like:
4804 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4806 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4807 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4808 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4811 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4813 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4814 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4815 tweaked by the user.
4817 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4818 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4819 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4822 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4823 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4824 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4827 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4829 This support currently relies on an external program,
4830 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4831 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4832 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4833 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4834 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4837 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4838 notmuch) is available via:
4840 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4842 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4843 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4844 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4846 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4848 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4849 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4850 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4851 making this automatic in a future release.
4853 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4855 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4856 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4857 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4858 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4859 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4860 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4863 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4865 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4866 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4867 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4869 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4871 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4872 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4873 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4875 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4876 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4877 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4878 other representation.
4880 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4881 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4884 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4886 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4887 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4888 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4890 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4891 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4892 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4894 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4896 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4897 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4898 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4899 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4900 to display the search result.
4902 More flexible handling of header visibility
4904 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4905 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4906 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4907 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4908 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4909 with the 'h' keybinding.
4911 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4912 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4913 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4915 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4917 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4919 Customizable formatting of search results
4921 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4922 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4923 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4925 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4927 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4929 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4934 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4936 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4937 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4938 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4939 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4945 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4947 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4948 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4950 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4952 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4953 accept are now all accepted.
4958 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4960 Better display of output from failed tests
4962 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4963 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4965 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4966 ========================
4968 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4969 detailed release notes this time!
4971 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4972 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4974 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4975 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4976 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4977 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4984 Better guessing of From: header
4986 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4987 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4988 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4989 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4990 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4993 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4995 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4996 guaranteed to match all messages.
4998 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
5000 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
5001 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
5002 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
5003 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
5004 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
5007 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
5010 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
5011 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
5012 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
5013 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
5018 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
5020 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
5021 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
5022 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
5023 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
5025 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
5027 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
5029 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
5030 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
5031 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
5033 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
5035 Previously, the user might see:
5037 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
5041 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
5043 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
5044 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
5045 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
5046 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
5048 Emacs client features
5049 ---------------------
5051 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
5053 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
5054 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
5055 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
5056 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
5057 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
5059 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
5062 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
5063 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
5064 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
5065 search with the '*' binding.
5067 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
5069 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
5070 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
5073 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
5075 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
5076 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
5077 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
5079 Build-system features
5080 ---------------------
5082 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
5084 Add support to configure for many standard options
5086 We include actual support for:
5088 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
5090 And accept and silently ignore several more:
5092 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
5093 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
5095 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
5096 separate "make install-emacs"
5098 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
5100 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
5101 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
5102 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
5104 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
5107 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
5108 ========================
5110 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
5112 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
5113 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
5115 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
5116 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
5117 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
5118 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
5119 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
5120 tags from messages in a thread.
5127 indent-tabs-mode: nil