1 Notmuch 0.23.2 (UNRELEASED)
6 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
8 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
10 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
11 ===========================
16 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
18 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
23 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
25 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
26 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
29 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
30 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
32 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
34 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
35 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
36 bug, and hence the test.
38 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
39 =========================
44 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
46 Support for single argument date: queries
48 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
50 Support for blocking opens
52 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
53 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
55 Support for named queries
57 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
58 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
59 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
66 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
67 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
68 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
69 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
71 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
73 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
78 Support for compile time options
80 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
81 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
84 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
86 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
87 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
88 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
89 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
95 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
97 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
98 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
99 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
101 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
102 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
103 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
104 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
105 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
106 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
107 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
109 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
110 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
113 Make internal address completion customizable
115 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
116 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
117 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
118 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
121 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
123 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
124 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
125 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
126 completion for the current buffer.
128 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
129 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
130 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
134 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
135 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
136 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
137 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
138 will be added instead.
140 Face customization is easier
142 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
143 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
144 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
145 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
147 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
152 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
157 Go bindings moved to contrib
159 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
161 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
163 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
164 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
166 The same issue occured with sort modes.
168 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
169 ===========================
176 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
177 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
179 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
181 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
183 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
184 ===========================
189 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
191 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
196 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
201 Use `env` to locate perl.
206 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
208 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
210 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
212 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
214 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
215 =========================
222 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
223 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
225 Limited support for S/MIME messages
227 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
228 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
229 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
234 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
235 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
236 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
238 Command Line Interface
239 ----------------------
241 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
243 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
248 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
253 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
255 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
256 parts are now included in replies.
258 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
259 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
260 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
261 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
263 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
265 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
267 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
269 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
270 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
271 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
272 forwards only the current message.
274 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
276 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
277 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
278 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
279 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
280 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
281 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
282 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
283 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
286 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
287 longer generate empty buffers
289 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
290 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
291 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
292 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
293 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
295 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
297 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
300 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
302 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
305 Address completion improvements
307 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
308 you previously configured one, customize the variable
309 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
310 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
311 interactive address completion.
313 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
315 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
316 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
317 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
322 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
323 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
324 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
330 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
331 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
332 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
333 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
334 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
335 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
337 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
338 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
339 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
340 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
341 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
342 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
344 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
345 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
347 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
348 =========================
353 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
356 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
358 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
359 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
360 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
362 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
363 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
365 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
366 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
367 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
369 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
371 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
372 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
373 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
374 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
375 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
376 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
381 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
382 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
385 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
388 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
390 Command Line Interface
391 ----------------------
393 Database revision tracking
395 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
396 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
397 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
398 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
400 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
402 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
403 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
404 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
405 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
406 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
407 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
408 manual page for further information.
413 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
415 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
416 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
418 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
420 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
421 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
422 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
424 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
426 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
428 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
429 customization as well.
431 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
433 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
435 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
437 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
439 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
440 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
441 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
442 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
444 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
446 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
447 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
448 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
449 this variable to 10000.
454 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
455 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
457 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
459 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
460 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
461 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
462 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
463 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
464 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
465 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
466 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
467 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
470 Database revision tracking
472 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
473 query parser and the new function
474 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
476 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
480 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
481 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
482 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
483 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
488 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
490 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
491 ===========================
496 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
498 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
499 ===========================
504 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
506 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
507 =========================
509 Command-Line Interface
510 ----------------------
512 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
514 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
515 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
516 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
518 Path to gpg is now configurable
520 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
521 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
526 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
528 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
533 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
538 Support messages without Message-IDs.
543 Undeprecate single message mboxes
545 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
546 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
548 New error logging facility
550 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
551 output formerly printed to stderr.
553 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
555 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
557 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
559 Fix for rounding of seconds
564 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
566 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
567 docmumentation has been removed.
569 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
571 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
572 some material from the relicensed wiki.
577 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
578 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
579 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
584 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
585 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
586 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
587 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
588 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
589 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
592 git checkout config origin/config
594 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
596 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
597 =========================
602 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
603 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
604 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
605 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
606 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
607 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
608 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
610 Command-Line Interface
611 ----------------------
613 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
615 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
616 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
617 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
618 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
619 script callers should still check the return value.
621 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
623 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
624 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
625 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
626 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
627 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
628 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
629 and returning success even if indexing fails).
631 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
633 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
634 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
635 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
637 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
639 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
640 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
641 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
642 currently unmaintained.
644 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
646 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
647 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
648 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
649 have at least `N` files associated with them.
651 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
653 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
654 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
655 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
656 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
657 count of duplicate addresses.
662 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
664 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
665 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
666 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
669 Improved handling of the unread tag
671 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
672 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
673 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
674 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
675 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
676 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
677 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
679 Expanded default saved search settings
681 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
682 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
684 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
686 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
687 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
688 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
690 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
692 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
693 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
694 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
695 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
696 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
697 the variable for details.
702 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
704 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
705 Representing these independently of the database version number will
706 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
707 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
709 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
711 Previously, library users were required to call
712 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
713 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
714 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
715 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
716 too out of date for that API.
718 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
720 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
721 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
722 atomic section will be aborted.
724 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
725 `notmuch_database_destroy`
727 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
729 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
730 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
731 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
732 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
733 messages into the same thread.
738 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
739 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
740 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
741 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
742 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
743 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
748 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
749 from the config file. Use something like:
753 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
754 "footer": "</body></html>",
763 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
768 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
769 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
770 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
772 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
773 ===========================
778 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
780 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
782 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
784 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
785 structure for signatures changed slightly.
787 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
789 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
792 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
793 ===========================
795 This is a bug fix and portability release.
800 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
802 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
804 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
806 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
808 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
814 Use --quick when starting emacs
816 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
818 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
820 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
822 Command-Line Interface
823 ----------------------
825 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
826 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
831 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
833 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
834 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
836 Fix for phrase indexing
838 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
839 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
840 will affect only newly indexed messages.
845 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
847 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
848 unintentionally removed.
850 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
851 =========================
856 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
857 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
858 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
859 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
860 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
861 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
862 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
863 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
864 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
870 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
872 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
873 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
874 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
875 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
876 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
877 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
878 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
879 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
881 There is a new `path:` search prefix
883 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
884 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
885 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
886 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
889 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
891 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
892 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
893 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
894 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
895 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
896 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
897 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
902 Notmuch database upgrade
904 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
905 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
906 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
907 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
908 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
909 released version of Notmuch before now.
911 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
913 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
914 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
915 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
916 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
918 Message header parsing changes
920 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
921 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
922 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
923 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
924 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
925 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
927 Command-Line Interface
928 ----------------------
930 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
932 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
934 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
936 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
938 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
940 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
941 user does not want it.
943 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
945 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
946 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
947 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
948 support formatted output.
950 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
952 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
953 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
954 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
962 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
963 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
964 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
965 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
966 `~/.emacs` with these.
968 Changed format for saved searches
970 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
971 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
972 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
973 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
976 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
977 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
978 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
979 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
981 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
982 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
983 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
985 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
986 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
987 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
988 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
989 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
991 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
993 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
994 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
995 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
997 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
999 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1000 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1001 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1002 message had been unread).
1004 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1005 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1006 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1007 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1009 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1010 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1011 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1013 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1014 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1015 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1016 to tags already present.
1020 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1021 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1022 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1023 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1024 these differ from each other.
1025 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1027 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1029 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1030 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1031 for these Emacs versions.
1033 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1035 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1036 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1038 Bug fixes for sender identities
1040 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1041 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1042 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1044 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1046 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1047 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1048 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1049 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1051 Reply pushes mark before signature
1053 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1054 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1055 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1057 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1059 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1060 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1066 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1067 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1069 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1070 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1071 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1072 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1074 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1075 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1076 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1077 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1078 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1080 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1082 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1083 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1085 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1086 =========================
1088 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1089 ---------------------------------------
1091 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1092 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1093 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1094 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1095 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1096 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1097 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1101 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1102 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1104 Command-Line Interface
1105 ----------------------
1107 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1109 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1110 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1111 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1112 print for each message.
1114 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1115 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1116 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1117 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1119 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1121 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1122 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1123 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1125 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1127 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1128 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1129 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1130 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1132 `notmuch compact` command
1134 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1135 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1136 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1137 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1138 move the compacted database into place.
1143 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1145 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1146 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1147 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1148 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1149 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1150 and multiple threads.
1152 Using `notmuch-tree`
1154 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1156 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1157 search, show and tree mode itself)
1159 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1162 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1163 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1165 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1167 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1168 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1169 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1170 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1171 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1172 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1173 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1175 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1177 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1178 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1179 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1180 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1181 thread when the search was performed.
1183 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1185 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1186 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1187 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1189 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1191 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1192 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1195 Built-in help improvements
1197 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1198 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1199 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1201 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1203 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1204 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1205 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1207 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1209 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1210 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1212 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1214 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1215 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1216 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1217 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1219 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1221 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1222 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1223 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1224 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1226 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1228 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1229 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1230 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1232 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1234 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1235 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1236 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1238 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1240 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1241 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1242 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1243 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1244 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1246 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1248 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1249 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1250 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1251 the body part of the message.
1256 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1257 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1258 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1260 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1261 =========================
1263 Command-Line Interface
1264 ----------------------
1266 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1268 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1269 folder and notmuch index.
1271 `notmuch count --batch` option
1273 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1274 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1276 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1278 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1279 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1280 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1283 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1285 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1286 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1287 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1288 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1289 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1292 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1294 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1295 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1297 Top level option to specify configuration file
1299 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1300 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1302 Bash command-line completion
1304 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1305 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1306 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1307 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1308 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1309 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1310 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1311 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1312 bash-completion package.
1314 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1319 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1321 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1322 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1323 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1324 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1325 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1326 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1327 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1328 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1330 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1332 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1333 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1334 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1336 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1338 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1339 previous thread in the search results.
1341 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1343 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1344 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1346 Faster search and show
1348 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1349 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1350 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1351 threads should show faster.
1355 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1356 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1357 in question was now removed from this release.
1362 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1363 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1368 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1370 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1371 ===========================
1376 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1378 Internal test framework changes
1379 -------------------------------
1381 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1382 being unimplemented.
1384 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1385 ===========================
1387 Internal test framework changes
1388 -------------------------------
1390 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1391 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1393 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1394 =========================
1399 Date range search support
1401 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1402 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1403 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1404 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1405 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1408 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1410 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1411 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1412 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1413 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1414 but may be removed in a future release.
1416 Command-Line Interface
1417 ----------------------
1419 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1421 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1422 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1424 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1426 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1427 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1428 officially deprecated.
1430 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1432 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1433 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1434 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1436 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1438 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1439 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1442 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1443 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1444 dump/restore format.
1446 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1448 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1449 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1450 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1452 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1454 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1455 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1456 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1458 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1460 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1461 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1462 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1463 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1468 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1470 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1471 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1472 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1473 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1475 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1477 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1478 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1479 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1480 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1481 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1482 the behavior of this, see
1483 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1484 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1486 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1487 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1488 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1490 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1492 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1493 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1496 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1498 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1499 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1500 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1501 simply displayed in place of the message.
1503 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1505 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1506 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1508 Improved text/calendar content handling
1510 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1511 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1512 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1513 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1515 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1517 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1518 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1519 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1520 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1522 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1524 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1525 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1526 for HTML email containing images.
1528 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1530 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1532 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1534 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1537 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1539 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1540 the point where it was.
1542 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1544 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1545 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1546 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1547 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1548 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1550 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1552 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1553 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1554 thread instead of the message id.
1556 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1557 -----------------------------
1559 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1560 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1561 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1562 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1563 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1564 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1565 further details and installation.
1570 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1572 Internal test framework changes
1573 -------------------------------
1575 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1577 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1578 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1579 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1580 can result in buggy behavior.
1582 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1583 =========================
1588 Maildir tag synchronization
1590 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1591 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1592 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1593 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1594 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1595 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1598 Command-Line Interface
1599 ----------------------
1601 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1602 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1603 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1604 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1605 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1611 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1613 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1615 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1616 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1617 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1619 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1621 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1622 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1623 span multiple lines.
1625 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1627 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1628 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1629 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1630 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1631 inside the result or message.
1633 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1635 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1636 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1638 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1639 user-specified formatting
1641 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1642 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1643 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1644 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1645 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1647 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1648 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1650 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1651 ===========================
1656 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1657 compilation error for this contrib package.
1659 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1660 ===========================
1665 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1667 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1668 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1669 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1670 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1672 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1673 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1676 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1677 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1678 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1679 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1682 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1684 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1687 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1688 =========================
1690 Command-Line Interface
1691 ----------------------
1695 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1696 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1697 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1698 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1700 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1701 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1702 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1703 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1707 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1708 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1710 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1711 tag in your query, for example:
1713 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1715 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1716 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1718 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1719 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1721 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1723 Raw show format changes
1725 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1726 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1727 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1728 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1729 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1730 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1731 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1732 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1734 Listing configuration items
1736 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1742 Changes to tagging interface
1744 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1745 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1746 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1747 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1748 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1749 for more information.
1751 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1752 may need to update in custom configurations.
1754 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1756 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1757 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1758 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1759 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1762 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1763 -----------------------------
1765 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1766 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1767 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1768 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1769 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1770 contrib/ from now on.
1775 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1776 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1778 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1779 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1781 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1782 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1783 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1785 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1786 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1788 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1789 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1790 returning the new database object or directory object.
1797 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1798 compatible with go 1.
1800 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1801 =========================
1803 Command-Line Interface
1804 ----------------------
1808 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1809 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1810 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1811 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1813 Mail store folder/file ignore
1815 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1816 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1817 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1819 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1820 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1822 Unified help and manual pages
1824 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1825 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1828 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1830 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1831 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1839 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1840 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1841 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1842 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1844 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1846 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1847 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1849 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1852 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1853 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1854 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1856 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1858 should be changed to:
1860 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1862 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1864 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1865 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1867 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1869 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1870 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1871 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1872 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1873 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1874 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1878 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1879 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1880 of Mailing List Archives.
1882 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1884 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1885 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1888 Show view archiving key binding changes
1890 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1891 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1892 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1893 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1894 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1897 Support text/calendar MIME type
1899 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1902 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1904 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1905 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1906 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1907 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1909 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1911 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1912 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1913 messages blue by default in the search view.
1917 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1918 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1925 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1928 Python bindings changes
1929 -----------------------
1931 Python 3.2 compatibility
1933 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1935 Added missing unicode conversions
1937 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1938 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1939 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1944 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1946 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1947 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1948 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1949 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1950 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1952 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1953 ===========================
1958 Fix error handling in python bindings
1960 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1961 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1962 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1963 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1965 Quote MML tags in replies
1967 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1968 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1969 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1970 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1971 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1972 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1973 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1974 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1976 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1977 =========================
1979 Command-Line Interface
1980 ----------------------
1984 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1985 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1986 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1987 importing new messages into the database.
1989 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1991 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1992 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1993 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1998 Automatic tag query optimization
2000 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2001 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2002 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2004 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2006 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2007 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2008 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2013 Reduction of memory leaks
2015 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2016 and fixed in this release.
2023 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2024 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2025 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2028 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2030 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2031 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2032 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2035 Improvements in saved search management
2037 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2038 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2039 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2041 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2043 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2044 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2045 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2047 New face for crypto parts headers
2049 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2050 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2051 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2054 Use space as default thousands separator
2056 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2057 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2058 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2060 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2061 buttonized id: links
2063 New function notmuch-show-advance
2065 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2066 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2067 be bound to SPC with:
2069 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2071 Various performance improvements
2076 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2077 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2080 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2081 ===========================
2086 Fix crash in python bindings
2088 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2089 for some, but not all users.
2091 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2092 ===========================
2097 Fix `--help` argument
2099 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2100 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2101 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2103 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2104 =========================
2106 New build and testing features
2107 ------------------------------
2109 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2110 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2111 prerequisites is improved.
2113 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2115 New command-line features
2116 -------------------------
2118 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2120 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2121 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2124 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2126 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2127 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2128 favour of using stdout.
2130 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2132 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2133 limit the number of results shown.
2135 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2137 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2138 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2141 New emacs UI features
2142 ---------------------
2144 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2146 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2147 starting with "tag:".
2149 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2151 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2152 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2154 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2156 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2158 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2160 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2161 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2166 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2168 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2170 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2171 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2172 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2173 requires a database rebuild:
2175 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2176 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2178 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2180 New collection of add-on tools
2181 ------------------------------
2183 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2184 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2185 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2188 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2190 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2191 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2192 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2194 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2195 ========================
2197 New, general features
2198 ---------------------
2200 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2202 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2203 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2204 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2205 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2206 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2213 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2214 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2216 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2220 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2221 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2222 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2225 Python bindings changes
2226 -----------------------
2228 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2230 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2231 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2232 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2233 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2234 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2235 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2237 Ruby bindings changes
2238 ---------------------
2240 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2241 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2242 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2243 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2248 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2250 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2251 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2253 Reply formatting cleanup
2254 ------------------------
2256 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2257 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2259 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2260 ========================
2262 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2264 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2265 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2266 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2267 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2270 Improved Build system portability
2272 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2273 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2274 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2276 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2278 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2280 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2282 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2283 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2284 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2286 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2287 ========================
2289 Vim interface improvements
2290 --------------------------
2292 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2294 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2295 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2296 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2297 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2298 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2300 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2302 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2303 * fix compose temp file name
2305 Python Bindings changes
2306 -----------------------
2308 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2310 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2311 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2313 Build-System improvements
2314 -------------------------
2316 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2318 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2321 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2322 ==========================
2327 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2329 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2330 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2332 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2333 =======================
2335 New, general features
2336 ---------------------
2338 Folder-based searching
2340 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2341 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2342 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2346 For example, one might use things such as:
2352 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2353 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2355 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2356 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2357 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2358 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2360 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2361 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2362 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2365 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2366 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2368 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2370 Support for PGP/MIME
2372 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2373 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2374 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2376 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2378 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2379 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2381 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2382 notmuch will receive these tags.
2384 New command-line features
2385 -------------------------
2387 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2389 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2390 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2392 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2394 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2395 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2396 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2398 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2400 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2401 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2402 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2403 which parts a signature part applies).
2405 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2407 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2408 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2409 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2410 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2411 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2414 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2416 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2417 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2418 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2419 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2420 by translating it internally to the new call.
2422 Performance improvements
2423 ------------------------
2425 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2427 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2428 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2429 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2431 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2432 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2434 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2436 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2437 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2438 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2440 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2441 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2442 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2443 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2445 Faster initial indexing
2447 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2448 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2449 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2451 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2453 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2454 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2455 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2456 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2458 New emacs-interface features
2459 ----------------------------
2461 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2463 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2464 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2465 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2466 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2467 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2468 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2470 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2472 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2473 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2474 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2475 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2477 User-selectable From address
2479 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2480 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2481 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2482 will prompt for the from address to use.
2484 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2485 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2486 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2488 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2489 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2490 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2493 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2495 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2496 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2498 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2500 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2502 ----- Original Message -----
2504 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2505 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2506 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2507 citations work much like conventional citations.
2509 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2511 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2512 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2513 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2514 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2515 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2517 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2518 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2520 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2522 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2523 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2524 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2526 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2528 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2529 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2530 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2531 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2532 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2534 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2536 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2539 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2541 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2543 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2545 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2548 Vim interface improvements
2549 --------------------------
2551 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2553 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2554 * Implementing archive in show view
2555 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2556 * Add delete commands
2559 Bindings improvements
2560 ---------------------
2562 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2564 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2565 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2567 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2569 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2573 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2574 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2575 `list(Messages)` works now
2576 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2578 These allow, for example:
2580 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2582 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2584 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2590 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2592 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2595 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2597 New build-system features
2598 -------------------------
2600 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2602 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2603 the configure script from some other directory:
2610 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2612 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2613 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2614 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2615 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2616 manual invocation of configure.
2618 New test-suite feature
2619 ----------------------
2621 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2623 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2624 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2625 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2626 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2627 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2630 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2632 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2633 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2634 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2635 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2636 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2637 are updated to take advantage of this.
2639 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2641 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2642 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2643 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2644 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2650 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2652 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2653 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2654 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2656 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2658 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2660 to:user@elsewhere.com
2662 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2664 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2666 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2668 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2669 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2670 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2673 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2674 from the Received headers in some cases
2676 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2677 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2679 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2681 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2683 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2685 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2686 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2687 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2689 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2690 -------------------------
2692 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2694 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2695 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2696 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2698 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2700 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2701 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2702 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2705 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2707 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2708 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2709 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2710 fixed to avoid this bug.
2712 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2714 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2715 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2717 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2718 ========================
2720 New, general features
2721 ---------------------
2723 Maildir-flag synchronization
2725 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2726 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2735 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2737 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2738 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2739 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2740 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2742 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2743 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2744 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2745 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2748 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2750 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2751 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2752 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2754 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2755 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2757 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2758 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2760 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2761 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2762 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2764 New library features
2765 --------------------
2767 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2769 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2770 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2771 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2772 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2774 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2775 message with the new function:
2777 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2779 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2780 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2781 over all available filenames for a given message.
2783 New command-line features
2784 -------------------------
2786 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2788 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2789 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2790 access to the mail store itself.
2792 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2793 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2794 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2795 name of a script containing:
2797 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2799 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2800 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2806 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2808 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2810 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2812 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2813 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2814 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2815 now produces nothing).
2817 Emacs interface improvements
2818 ----------------------------
2820 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2822 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2824 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2826 Display current thread subject in a header line
2828 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2830 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2832 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2833 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2834 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2835 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2836 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2837 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2838 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2840 Vim interface improvements
2841 --------------------------
2843 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2845 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2846 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2852 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2854 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2855 ========================
2857 New command-line features
2858 -------------------------
2860 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2862 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2863 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2864 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2866 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2867 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2868 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2869 scripts. For example:
2871 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2872 <operations-on> "$file"
2875 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2877 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2878 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2879 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2880 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2881 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2882 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2884 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2886 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2887 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2888 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2889 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2891 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2893 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2894 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2895 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2896 default rather than Bcc.
2898 New library features
2899 --------------------
2901 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2903 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2904 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2909 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2911 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2912 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2913 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2914 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2915 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2916 notmuch customize interface.
2918 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2920 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2921 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2922 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2923 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2925 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2927 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2928 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2929 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2930 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2932 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2934 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2935 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2936 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2937 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2938 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2939 notmuch customize interface.
2941 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2943 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2944 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2945 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2946 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2947 notmuch customize interface.
2949 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2951 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2952 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2953 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2954 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2957 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2959 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2960 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2961 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2964 New build-system features
2965 -------------------------
2967 Various portability fixes have been applied
2969 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2970 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2971 more portable than ever before.
2973 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2975 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2976 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2977 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2979 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2980 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2981 automatically run ldconfig.
2983 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2984 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2985 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2987 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2988 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2989 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2990 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2992 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2994 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2995 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2996 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2997 used in the resulting Makefile.
2999 New test-suite features
3000 -----------------------
3002 New modularization of test suite
3004 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3005 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3006 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3007 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3008 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3009 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3010 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3011 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3013 New testing of emacs interface
3015 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3016 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3017 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3018 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3019 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3020 database via the FCC setting.
3025 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3027 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3028 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3029 persistent error of the form:
3031 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3033 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3034 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3036 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3038 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3039 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3040 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3042 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3044 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3045 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3046 parsing the notmuch results).
3048 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3050 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3053 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3054 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3055 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3060 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3062 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3063 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3064 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3065 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3066 the emacs interface.
3068 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3070 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3071 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3072 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3074 Python-binding fixes
3075 --------------------
3077 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3079 Debian-specific fixes
3080 ---------------------
3082 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3084 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3085 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3086 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3089 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3090 ==========================
3095 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3097 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3098 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3099 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3100 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3102 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3104 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3105 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3106 want notmuch to crash.
3111 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3113 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3114 directory does not exist
3119 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3121 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3122 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3124 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3125 ========================
3127 New command-line features
3128 -------------------------
3130 User-configurable tags for new messages
3132 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3133 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3134 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3135 to specify this value.
3137 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3139 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3140 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3141 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3143 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3145 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3146 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3148 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3150 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3151 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3152 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3153 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3154 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3157 Indication of author names that match a search
3159 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3160 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3161 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3162 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3163 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3164 messages in the thread are listed first.
3166 New: Python bindings
3167 --------------------
3169 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3170 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3171 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3172 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3174 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3175 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3176 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3179 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3180 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3181 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3183 Emacs interface improvements
3184 ----------------------------
3186 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3188 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3189 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3190 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3191 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3192 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3193 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3194 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3195 but without any of the disadvantages).
3197 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3198 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3199 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3202 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3203 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3204 instead running something like:
3206 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3208 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3209 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3210 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3213 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3215 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3216 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3217 tweaked by the user.
3219 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3220 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3221 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3224 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3225 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3226 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3229 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3231 This support currently relies on an external program,
3232 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3233 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3234 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3235 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3236 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3239 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3240 notmuch) is available via:
3242 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3244 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3245 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3246 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3248 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3250 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3251 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3252 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3253 making this automatic in a future release.
3255 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3257 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3258 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3259 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3260 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3261 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3262 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3265 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3267 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3268 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3269 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3271 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3273 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3274 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3275 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3277 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3278 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3279 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3280 other representation.
3282 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3283 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3286 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3288 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3289 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3290 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3292 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3293 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3294 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3296 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3298 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3299 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3300 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3301 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3302 to display the search result.
3304 More flexible handling of header visibility
3306 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3307 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3308 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3309 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3310 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3311 with the 'h' keybinding.
3313 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3314 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3315 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3317 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3319 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3321 Customizable formatting of search results
3323 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3324 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3325 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3327 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3329 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3331 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3336 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3338 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3339 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3340 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3341 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3347 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3349 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3350 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3352 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3354 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3355 accept are now all accepted.
3360 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3362 Better display of output from failed tests
3364 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3365 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3367 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3368 ========================
3370 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3371 detailed release notes this time!
3373 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3374 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3376 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3377 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3378 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3379 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3386 Better guessing of From: header
3388 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3389 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3390 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3391 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3392 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3395 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3397 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3398 guaranteed to match all messages.
3400 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3402 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3403 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3404 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3405 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3406 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3409 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3412 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3413 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3414 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3415 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3420 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3422 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3423 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3424 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3425 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3427 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3429 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3431 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3432 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3433 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3435 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3437 Previously, the user might see:
3439 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3443 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3445 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3446 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3447 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3448 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3450 Emacs client features
3451 ---------------------
3453 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3455 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3456 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3457 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3458 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3459 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3461 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3464 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3465 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3466 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3467 search with the '*' binding.
3469 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3471 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3472 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3475 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3477 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3478 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3479 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3481 Build-system features
3482 ---------------------
3484 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3486 Add support to configure for many standard options
3488 We include actual support for:
3490 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3492 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3494 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3495 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3497 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3498 separate "make install-emacs"
3500 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3502 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3503 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3504 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3506 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3509 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3510 ========================
3512 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3514 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3515 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3517 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3518 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3519 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3520 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3521 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3522 tags from messages in a thread.
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