1 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
2 ===========================
7 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
8 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
9 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
11 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
12 --------------------------
14 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
15 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
17 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
18 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
19 and database location options as the library does.
21 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
22 ===========================
27 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
28 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
29 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
30 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
31 status returns for the same 3 functions.
33 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
34 =========================
39 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
40 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
41 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
42 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
43 s-expression query support.
48 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
53 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
55 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
57 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
59 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
61 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
62 ===========================
67 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
69 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
70 ===========================
75 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
76 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
79 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
80 =========================
85 Correct documentation about transactions.
87 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
88 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
90 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
95 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
101 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
102 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
103 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
105 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
107 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
109 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
111 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
113 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
115 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
118 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
123 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
124 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
125 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
126 split, following an old library API change.
131 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
136 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
138 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
140 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
141 ===========================
146 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
149 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
152 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
153 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
158 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
160 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
161 ===========================
166 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
172 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
177 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
182 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
187 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
188 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
190 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
191 ===========================
196 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
197 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
198 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
200 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
201 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
202 database in a pre-new hook.
204 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
205 default worked only in "notmuch config".
210 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
211 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
213 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
214 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
215 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
217 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
218 =========================
223 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
224 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
225 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
226 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
227 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
228 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
229 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
230 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
231 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
232 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
233 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
238 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
239 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
241 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
242 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
243 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
244 - `notmuch_config_get`
246 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
247 now exposed (and generalized).
249 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
250 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
251 session has been fixed.
253 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
254 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
259 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
260 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
262 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
263 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
268 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
269 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
270 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
271 when prompting for senders.
273 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
274 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
277 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
279 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
281 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
282 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
283 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
284 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
285 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
286 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
287 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
289 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
290 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
292 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
293 you should change it to:
294 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
296 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
297 ===========================
302 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
307 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
309 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
310 ===========================
315 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
320 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
325 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
327 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
328 ===========================
333 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
334 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
336 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
337 ===========================
342 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
347 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
348 with a C++ header for some compilers.
350 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
352 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
353 =========================
358 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
359 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
360 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
362 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
364 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
366 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
368 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
371 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
373 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
374 search, show and tree mode)
376 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
379 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
382 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
383 always be newest first.
388 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
389 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
390 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
396 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
397 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
398 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
399 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
401 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
402 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
403 non-status providing versions.
405 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
406 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
408 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
409 promised in the documentation.
414 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
415 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
416 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
421 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
422 development version).
427 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
432 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
434 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
435 =========================
440 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
441 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
442 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
445 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
451 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
452 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
453 notmuch-properties(7)).
458 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
459 has protected headers (see
460 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
461 notmuch-properties(7)).
466 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
468 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
469 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
475 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
478 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
479 ===========================
484 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
486 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
491 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
493 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
494 ===========================
499 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
500 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
502 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
503 ===========================
508 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
510 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
511 =========================
516 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
517 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
520 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
521 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
522 the set of headers to be indexed.
524 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
527 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
528 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
529 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
532 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
533 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
534 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
536 Command Line Interface
537 ----------------------
539 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
542 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
544 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
545 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
546 more details about what is included there. This status includes
547 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
552 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
553 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
555 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
557 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
559 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
561 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
563 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
566 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
568 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
569 and may be removed in a future release.
571 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
577 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
579 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
580 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
585 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
586 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
587 cryptography support.
592 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
593 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
594 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
596 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
597 ===========================
599 Command line interface
600 ----------------------
602 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
603 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
605 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
606 ===========================
611 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
612 by message properties.
617 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
619 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
620 ===========================
625 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
630 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
631 now needed to build this documentation.
633 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
634 ===========================
639 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
640 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
642 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
643 =========================
650 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
651 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
652 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
653 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
654 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
657 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
659 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
660 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
661 correct encoding for such messages.
663 Command Line Interface
664 ----------------------
666 Support relative database paths
668 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
669 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
670 to $HOME of the invoking user.
675 Improve stderr handling
677 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
678 needed on e.g. macOS.
680 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
682 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
687 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
688 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
694 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
695 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
701 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
702 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
705 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
706 =========================
711 Add support for thread:{} queries
713 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
714 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
715 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
717 Command Line Interface
718 ----------------------
720 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
722 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
724 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
726 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
727 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
728 does not have to be available during message receipt.
733 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
739 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
740 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
742 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
743 ===========================
748 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
750 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
751 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
752 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
754 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
756 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
757 related abort in `notmuch show`.
759 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
760 ===========================
765 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
766 better late than never.
769 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
770 =========================
772 Command Line Interface
773 ----------------------
775 Support for re-indexing existing messages
777 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
778 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
779 change the way specific messages are indexed.
781 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
782 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
783 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
785 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
787 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
789 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
791 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
792 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
793 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
794 the setting of `new.tags`.
796 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
798 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
800 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
802 This inserts into the top level folder.
804 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
806 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
808 New option --output=address for notmuch address
810 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
812 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
814 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
815 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
816 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
818 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
823 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
825 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
826 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
827 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
828 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
829 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
830 config set index.decrypt true".
832 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
833 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
834 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
835 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
836 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
837 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
838 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
839 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
841 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
842 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
843 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
844 this feature without considering the security of your index.
849 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
851 Use make-process when available
853 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
854 notmuch command without using temporary files.
859 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
861 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
862 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
863 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
864 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
866 New functions to count files
868 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
869 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
871 New function to remove properties
873 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
874 drop all properties with a common pattern:
875 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
877 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
879 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
880 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
881 possibility of NULL was not documented.
883 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
885 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
886 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
887 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
888 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
889 operator may decide to change from message to message.
896 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
897 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
898 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
904 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
906 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
907 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
909 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
911 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
913 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
915 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
920 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
921 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
923 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
924 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
925 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
926 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
927 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
928 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
933 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
935 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
936 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
937 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
938 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
940 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
941 ===========================
946 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
947 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
950 Command Line Interface
951 ----------------------
953 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
954 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
957 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
958 ===========================
960 Command Line Interface
961 ----------------------
963 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
964 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
969 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
972 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
973 ===========================
978 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
981 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
982 =========================
987 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
989 Skip HTML tags when indexing
991 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
993 Command Line Interface
994 ----------------------
996 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
998 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1003 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1005 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1006 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1009 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1014 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1016 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1017 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1019 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1021 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1022 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1025 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1027 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1029 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1031 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1032 ===========================
1034 Command Line Interface
1035 ----------------------
1037 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1042 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1044 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1045 ===========================
1050 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1052 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1053 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1056 Command Line Interface
1057 ----------------------
1059 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1061 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1063 Fix bug in dump header
1065 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1066 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1067 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1072 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1074 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1075 =========================
1080 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1082 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1085 Command Line Interface
1086 ----------------------
1088 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1090 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1091 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1092 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1094 New default output format to 3
1096 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1097 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1098 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1099 default format changes.
1104 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1106 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1107 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1108 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1109 or tree view to resume.
1111 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1112 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1113 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1116 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1117 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1121 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1122 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1123 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1124 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1125 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1129 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1130 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1131 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1132 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1133 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1134 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1138 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1139 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1141 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1143 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1144 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1145 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1146 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1147 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1148 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1149 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1150 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1153 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1155 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1156 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1157 only tagged the current thread.)
1159 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1161 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1162 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1163 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1165 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1167 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1168 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1169 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1170 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1171 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1172 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1173 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1175 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1177 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1178 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1179 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1184 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1186 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1189 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1191 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1194 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1195 ===========================
1200 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1202 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1203 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1204 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1207 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1208 ===========================
1210 Command Line Interface
1211 ----------------------
1213 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1218 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1220 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1221 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1222 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1224 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1225 ===========================
1230 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1231 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1233 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1234 ===========================
1236 Command Line Interface
1237 ----------------------
1239 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1241 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1242 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1243 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1248 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1250 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1251 ===========================
1253 Command Line Interface
1254 ----------------------
1256 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1261 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1263 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1264 ===========================
1269 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1271 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1272 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1273 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1275 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1277 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1279 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1280 ===========================
1285 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1287 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1292 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1294 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1295 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1296 the original colours.
1298 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1299 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1301 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1303 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1304 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1305 bug, and hence the test.
1307 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1308 =========================
1310 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1311 ---------------------
1313 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1315 Support for single argument date: queries
1317 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1319 Support for blocking opens
1321 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1322 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1324 Support for named queries
1326 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1327 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1328 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1333 Message property API
1335 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1336 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1337 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1338 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1340 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1342 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1347 Support for compile time options
1349 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1350 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1353 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1355 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1356 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1357 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1358 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1359 scripts to ignore it.
1364 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1366 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1367 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1368 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1370 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1371 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1372 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1373 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1374 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1375 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1376 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1378 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1379 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1382 Make internal address completion customizable
1384 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1385 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1386 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1387 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1390 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1392 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1393 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1394 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1395 completion for the current buffer.
1397 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1398 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1399 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1403 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1404 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1405 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1406 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1407 will be added instead.
1409 Face customization is easier
1411 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1412 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1413 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1414 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1416 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1421 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1426 Go bindings moved to contrib
1428 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1430 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1432 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1433 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1435 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1437 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1438 ===========================
1445 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1446 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1448 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1450 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1452 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1453 ===========================
1458 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1460 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1465 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1470 Use `env` to locate perl.
1475 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1477 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1479 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1481 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1483 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1484 =========================
1491 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1492 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1494 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1496 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1497 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1498 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1503 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1504 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1505 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1507 Command Line Interface
1508 ----------------------
1510 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1512 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1517 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1522 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1524 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1525 parts are now included in replies.
1527 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1528 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1529 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1530 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1532 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1534 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1536 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1538 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1539 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1540 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1541 forwards only the current message.
1543 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1545 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1546 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1547 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1548 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1549 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1550 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1551 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1552 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1555 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1556 longer generate empty buffers
1558 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1559 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1560 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1561 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1562 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1564 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1566 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1569 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1571 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1574 Address completion improvements
1576 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1577 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1578 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1579 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1580 interactive address completion.
1582 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1584 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1585 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1586 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1591 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1592 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1593 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1599 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1600 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1601 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1602 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1603 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1604 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1606 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1607 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1608 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1609 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1610 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1611 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1613 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1614 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1616 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1617 =========================
1622 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1625 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1627 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1628 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1629 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1631 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1632 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1634 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1635 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1636 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1638 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1640 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1641 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1642 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1643 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1644 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1645 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1650 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1651 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1654 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1655 option to configure.
1657 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1659 Command Line Interface
1660 ----------------------
1662 Database revision tracking
1664 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1665 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1666 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1667 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1669 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1671 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1672 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1673 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1674 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1675 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1676 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1677 manual page for further information.
1682 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1684 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1685 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1687 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1689 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1690 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1691 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1693 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1695 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1697 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1698 customization as well.
1700 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1702 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1704 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1706 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1708 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1709 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1710 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1711 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1713 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1715 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1716 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1717 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1718 this variable to 10000.
1723 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1724 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1726 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1728 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1729 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1730 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1731 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1732 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1733 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1734 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1735 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1736 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1739 Database revision tracking
1741 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1742 query parser and the new function
1743 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1745 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1747 Deprecated functions
1749 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1750 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1751 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1752 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1757 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1759 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1760 ===========================
1765 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1767 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1768 ===========================
1773 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1775 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1776 =========================
1778 Command-Line Interface
1779 ----------------------
1781 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1783 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1784 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1785 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1787 Path to gpg is now configurable
1789 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1790 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1795 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1797 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1802 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1807 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1812 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1814 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1815 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1817 New error logging facility
1819 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1820 output formerly printed to stderr.
1822 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1824 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1826 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1828 Fix for rounding of seconds
1833 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1835 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1836 documentation has been removed.
1838 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1840 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1841 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1846 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1847 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1848 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1853 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1854 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1855 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1856 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1857 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1858 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1861 git checkout config origin/config
1863 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1865 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1866 =========================
1871 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1872 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1873 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1874 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1875 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1876 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1877 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1879 Command-Line Interface
1880 ----------------------
1882 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1884 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1885 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1886 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1887 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1888 script callers should still check the return value.
1890 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1892 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1893 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1894 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1895 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1896 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1897 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1898 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1900 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1902 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1903 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1904 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1906 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1908 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1909 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1910 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1911 currently unmaintained.
1913 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1915 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1916 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1917 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1918 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1920 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1922 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1923 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1924 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1925 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1926 count of duplicate addresses.
1931 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1933 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1934 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1935 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1938 Improved handling of the unread tag
1940 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1941 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1942 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1943 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1944 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1945 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1946 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1948 Expanded default saved search settings
1950 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1951 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1953 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1955 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1956 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1957 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1959 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1961 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1962 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1963 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1964 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1965 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1966 the variable for details.
1971 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1973 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1974 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1975 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1976 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1978 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1980 Previously, library users were required to call
1981 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1982 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1983 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1984 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1985 too out of date for that API.
1987 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1989 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1990 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1991 atomic section will be aborted.
1993 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1994 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1996 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1998 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1999 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2000 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2001 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2002 messages into the same thread.
2007 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2008 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2009 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2010 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2011 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2012 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2017 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2018 from the config file. Use something like:
2022 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2023 "footer": "</body></html>",
2032 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2037 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2038 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2039 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2041 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2042 ===========================
2047 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2049 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2051 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2053 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2054 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2056 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2058 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2061 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2062 ===========================
2064 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2069 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2071 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2073 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2075 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2077 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2083 Use --quick when starting emacs
2085 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2087 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2089 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2091 Command-Line Interface
2092 ----------------------
2094 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2095 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2100 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2102 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2103 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2105 Fix for phrase indexing
2107 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2108 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2109 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2114 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2116 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2117 unintentionally removed.
2119 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2120 =========================
2125 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2126 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2127 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2128 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2129 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2130 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2131 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2132 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2133 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2139 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2141 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2142 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2143 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2144 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2145 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2146 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2147 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2148 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2150 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2152 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2153 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2154 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2155 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2158 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2160 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2161 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2162 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2163 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2164 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2165 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2166 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2171 Notmuch database upgrade
2173 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2174 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2175 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2176 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2177 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2178 released version of Notmuch before now.
2180 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2182 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2183 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2184 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2185 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2187 Message header parsing changes
2189 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2190 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2191 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2192 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2193 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2194 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2196 Command-Line Interface
2197 ----------------------
2199 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2201 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2203 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2205 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2207 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2209 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2210 user does not want it.
2212 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2214 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2215 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2216 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2217 support formatted output.
2219 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2221 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2222 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2223 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2231 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2232 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2233 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2234 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2235 `~/.emacs` with these.
2237 Changed format for saved searches
2239 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2240 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2241 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2242 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2245 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2246 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2247 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2248 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2250 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2251 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2252 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2254 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2255 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2256 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2257 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2258 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2260 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2262 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2263 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2264 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2266 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2268 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2269 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2270 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2271 message had been unread).
2273 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2274 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2275 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2276 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2278 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2279 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2280 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2282 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2283 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2284 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2285 to tags already present.
2289 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2290 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2291 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2292 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2293 these differ from each other.
2294 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2296 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2298 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2299 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2300 for these Emacs versions.
2302 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2304 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2305 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2307 Bug fixes for sender identities
2309 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2310 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2311 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2313 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2315 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2316 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2317 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2318 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2320 Reply pushes mark before signature
2322 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2323 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2324 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2326 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2328 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2329 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2335 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2336 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2338 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2339 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2340 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2341 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2343 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2344 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2345 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2346 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2347 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2349 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2351 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2352 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2354 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2355 =========================
2357 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2358 ---------------------------------------
2360 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2361 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2362 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2363 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2364 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2365 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2366 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2370 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2371 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2373 Command-Line Interface
2374 ----------------------
2376 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2378 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2379 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2380 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2381 print for each message.
2383 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2384 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2385 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2386 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2388 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2390 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2391 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2392 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2394 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2396 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2397 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2398 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2399 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2401 `notmuch compact` command
2403 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2404 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2405 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2406 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2407 move the compacted database into place.
2412 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2414 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2415 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2416 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2417 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2418 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2419 and multiple threads.
2421 Using `notmuch-tree`
2423 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2425 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2426 search, show and tree mode itself)
2428 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2431 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2432 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2434 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2436 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2437 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2438 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2439 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2440 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2441 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2442 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2444 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2446 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2447 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2448 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2449 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2450 thread when the search was performed.
2452 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2454 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2455 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2456 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2458 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2460 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2461 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2464 Built-in help improvements
2466 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2467 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2468 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2470 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2472 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2473 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2474 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2476 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2478 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2479 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2481 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2483 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2484 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2485 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2486 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2488 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2490 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2491 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2492 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2493 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2495 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2497 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2498 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2499 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2501 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2503 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2504 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2505 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2507 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2509 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2510 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2511 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2512 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2513 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2515 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2517 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2518 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2519 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2520 the body part of the message.
2525 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2526 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2527 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2529 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2530 =========================
2532 Command-Line Interface
2533 ----------------------
2535 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2537 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2538 folder and notmuch index.
2540 `notmuch count --batch` option
2542 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2543 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2545 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2547 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2548 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2549 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2552 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2554 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2555 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2556 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2557 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2558 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2561 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2563 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2564 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2566 Top level option to specify configuration file
2568 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2569 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2571 Bash command-line completion
2573 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2574 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2575 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2576 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2577 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2578 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2579 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2580 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2581 bash-completion package.
2583 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2588 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2590 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2591 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2592 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2593 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2594 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2595 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2596 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2597 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2599 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2601 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2602 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2603 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2605 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2607 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2608 previous thread in the search results.
2610 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2612 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2613 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2615 Faster search and show
2617 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2618 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2619 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2620 threads should show faster.
2624 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2625 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2626 in question was now removed from this release.
2631 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2632 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2637 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2639 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2640 ===========================
2645 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2647 Internal test framework changes
2648 -------------------------------
2650 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2651 being unimplemented.
2653 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2654 ===========================
2656 Internal test framework changes
2657 -------------------------------
2659 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2660 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2662 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2663 =========================
2668 Date range search support
2670 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2671 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2672 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2673 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2674 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2677 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2679 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2680 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2681 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2682 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2683 but may be removed in a future release.
2685 Command-Line Interface
2686 ----------------------
2688 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2690 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2691 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2693 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2695 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2696 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2697 officially deprecated.
2699 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2701 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2702 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2703 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2705 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2707 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2708 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2711 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2712 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2713 dump/restore format.
2715 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2717 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2718 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2719 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2721 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2723 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2724 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2725 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2727 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2729 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2730 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2731 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2732 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2737 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2739 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2740 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2741 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2742 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2744 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2746 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2747 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2748 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2749 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2750 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2751 the behavior of this, see
2752 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2753 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2755 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2756 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2757 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2759 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2761 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2762 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2765 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2767 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2768 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2769 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2770 simply displayed in place of the message.
2772 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2774 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2775 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2777 Improved text/calendar content handling
2779 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2780 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2781 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2782 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2784 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2786 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2787 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2788 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2789 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2791 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2793 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2794 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2795 for HTML email containing images.
2797 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2799 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2801 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2803 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2806 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2808 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2809 the point where it was.
2811 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2813 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2814 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2815 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2816 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2817 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2819 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2821 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2822 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2823 thread instead of the message id.
2825 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2826 -----------------------------
2828 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2829 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2830 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2831 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2832 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2833 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2834 further details and installation.
2839 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2841 Internal test framework changes
2842 -------------------------------
2844 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2846 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2847 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2848 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2849 can result in buggy behavior.
2851 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2852 =========================
2857 Maildir tag synchronization
2859 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2860 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2861 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2862 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2863 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2864 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2867 Command-Line Interface
2868 ----------------------
2870 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2871 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2872 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2873 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2874 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2880 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2882 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2884 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2885 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2886 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2888 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2890 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2891 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2892 span multiple lines.
2894 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2896 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2897 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2898 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2899 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2900 inside the result or message.
2902 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2904 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2905 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2907 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2908 user-specified formatting
2910 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2911 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2912 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2913 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2914 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2916 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2917 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2919 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2920 ===========================
2925 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2926 compilation error for this contrib package.
2928 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2929 ===========================
2934 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2936 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2937 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2938 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2939 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2941 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2942 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2945 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2946 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2947 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2948 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2951 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2953 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2956 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2957 =========================
2959 Command-Line Interface
2960 ----------------------
2964 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2965 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2966 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2967 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2969 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2970 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2971 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2972 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2976 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2977 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2979 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2980 tag in your query, for example:
2982 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2984 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2985 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2987 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2988 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2990 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2992 Raw show format changes
2994 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2995 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2996 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2997 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2998 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2999 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3000 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3001 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3003 Listing configuration items
3005 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3011 Changes to tagging interface
3013 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3014 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3015 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3016 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3017 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3018 for more information.
3020 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3021 may need to update in custom configurations.
3023 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3025 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3026 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3027 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3028 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3031 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3032 -----------------------------
3034 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3035 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3036 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3037 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3038 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3039 contrib/ from now on.
3044 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3045 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3047 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3048 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3050 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3051 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3052 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3054 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3055 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3057 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3058 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3059 returning the new database object or directory object.
3066 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3067 compatible with go 1.
3069 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3070 =========================
3072 Command-Line Interface
3073 ----------------------
3077 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3078 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3079 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3080 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3082 Mail store folder/file ignore
3084 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3085 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3086 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3088 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3089 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3091 Unified help and manual pages
3093 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3094 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3097 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3099 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3100 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3108 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3109 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3110 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3111 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3113 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3115 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3116 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3118 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3121 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3122 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3123 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3125 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3127 should be changed to:
3129 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3131 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3133 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3134 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3136 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3138 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3139 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3140 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3141 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3142 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3143 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3147 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3148 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3149 of Mailing List Archives.
3151 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3153 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3154 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3157 Show view archiving key binding changes
3159 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3160 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3161 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3162 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3163 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3166 Support text/calendar MIME type
3168 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3171 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3173 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3174 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3175 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3176 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3178 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3180 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3181 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3182 messages blue by default in the search view.
3186 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3187 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3194 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3197 Python bindings changes
3198 -----------------------
3200 Python 3.2 compatibility
3202 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3204 Added missing unicode conversions
3206 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3207 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3208 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3213 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3215 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3216 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3217 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3218 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3219 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3221 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3222 ===========================
3227 Fix error handling in python bindings
3229 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3230 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3231 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3232 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3234 Quote MML tags in replies
3236 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3237 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3238 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3239 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3240 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3241 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3242 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3243 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3245 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3246 =========================
3248 Command-Line Interface
3249 ----------------------
3253 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3254 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3255 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3256 importing new messages into the database.
3258 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3260 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3261 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3262 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3267 Automatic tag query optimization
3269 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3270 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3271 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3273 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3275 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3276 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3277 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3282 Reduction of memory leaks
3284 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3285 and fixed in this release.
3292 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3293 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3294 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3297 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3299 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3300 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3301 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3304 Improvements in saved search management
3306 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3307 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3308 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3310 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3312 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3313 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3314 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3316 New face for crypto parts headers
3318 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3319 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3320 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3323 Use space as default thousands separator
3325 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3326 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3327 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3329 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3330 buttonized id: links
3332 New function notmuch-show-advance
3334 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3335 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3336 be bound to SPC with:
3338 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3340 Various performance improvements
3345 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3346 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3349 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3350 ===========================
3355 Fix crash in python bindings
3357 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3358 for some, but not all users.
3360 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3361 ===========================
3366 Fix `--help` argument
3368 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3369 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3370 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3372 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3373 =========================
3375 New build and testing features
3376 ------------------------------
3378 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3379 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3380 prerequisites is improved.
3382 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3384 New command-line features
3385 -------------------------
3387 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3389 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3390 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3393 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3395 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3396 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3397 favour of using stdout.
3399 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3401 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3402 limit the number of results shown.
3404 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3406 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3407 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3410 New emacs UI features
3411 ---------------------
3413 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3415 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3416 starting with "tag:".
3418 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3420 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3421 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3423 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3425 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3427 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3429 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3430 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3435 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3437 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3439 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3440 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3441 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3442 requires a database rebuild:
3444 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3445 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3447 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3449 New collection of add-on tools
3450 ------------------------------
3452 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3453 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3454 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3457 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3459 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3460 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3461 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3463 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3464 ========================
3466 New, general features
3467 ---------------------
3469 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3471 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3472 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3473 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3474 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3475 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3482 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3483 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3485 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3489 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3490 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3491 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3494 Python bindings changes
3495 -----------------------
3497 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3499 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3500 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3501 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3502 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3503 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3504 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3506 Ruby bindings changes
3507 ---------------------
3509 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3510 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3511 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3512 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3517 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3519 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3520 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3522 Reply formatting cleanup
3523 ------------------------
3525 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3526 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3528 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3529 ========================
3531 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3533 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3534 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3535 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3536 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3539 Improved Build system portability
3541 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3542 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3543 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3545 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3547 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3549 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3551 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3552 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3553 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3555 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3556 ========================
3558 Vim interface improvements
3559 --------------------------
3561 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3563 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3564 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3565 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3566 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3567 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3569 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3571 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3572 * fix compose temp file name
3574 Python Bindings changes
3575 -----------------------
3577 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3579 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3580 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3582 Build-System improvements
3583 -------------------------
3585 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3587 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3590 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3591 ==========================
3596 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3598 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3599 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3601 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3602 =======================
3604 New, general features
3605 ---------------------
3607 Folder-based searching
3609 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3610 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3611 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3615 For example, one might use things such as:
3621 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3622 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3624 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3625 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3626 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3627 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3629 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3630 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3631 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3634 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3635 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3637 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3639 Support for PGP/MIME
3641 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3642 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3643 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3645 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3647 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3648 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3650 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3651 notmuch will receive these tags.
3653 New command-line features
3654 -------------------------
3656 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3658 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3659 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3661 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3663 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3664 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3665 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3667 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3669 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3670 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3671 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3672 which parts a signature part applies).
3674 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3676 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3677 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3678 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3679 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3680 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3683 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3685 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3686 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3687 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3688 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3689 by translating it internally to the new call.
3691 Performance improvements
3692 ------------------------
3694 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3696 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3697 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3698 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3700 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3701 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3703 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3705 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3706 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3707 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3709 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3710 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3711 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3712 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3714 Faster initial indexing
3716 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3717 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3718 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3720 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3722 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3723 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3724 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3725 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3727 New emacs-interface features
3728 ----------------------------
3730 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3732 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3733 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3734 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3735 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3736 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3737 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3739 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3741 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3742 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3743 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3744 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3746 User-selectable From address
3748 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3749 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3750 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3751 will prompt for the from address to use.
3753 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3754 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3755 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3757 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3758 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3759 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3762 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3764 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3765 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3767 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3769 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3771 ----- Original Message -----
3773 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3774 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3775 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3776 citations work much like conventional citations.
3778 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3780 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3781 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3782 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3783 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3784 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3786 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3787 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3789 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3791 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3792 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3793 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3795 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3797 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3798 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3799 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3800 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3801 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3803 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3805 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3808 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3810 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3812 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3814 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3817 Vim interface improvements
3818 --------------------------
3820 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3822 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3823 * Implementing archive in show view
3824 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3825 * Add delete commands
3828 Bindings improvements
3829 ---------------------
3831 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3833 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3834 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3836 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3838 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3842 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3843 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3844 `list(Messages)` works now
3845 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3847 These allow, for example:
3849 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3851 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3853 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3859 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3861 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3864 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3866 New build-system features
3867 -------------------------
3869 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3871 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3872 the configure script from some other directory:
3879 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3881 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3882 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3883 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3884 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3885 manual invocation of configure.
3887 New test-suite feature
3888 ----------------------
3890 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3892 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3893 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3894 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3895 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3896 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3899 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3901 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3902 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3903 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3904 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3905 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3906 are updated to take advantage of this.
3908 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3910 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3911 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3912 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3913 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3919 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3921 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3922 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3923 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3925 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3927 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3929 to:user@elsewhere.com
3931 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3933 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3935 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3937 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3938 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3939 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3942 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3943 from the Received headers in some cases
3945 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3946 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3948 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3950 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3952 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3954 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3955 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3956 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3958 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3959 -------------------------
3961 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3963 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3964 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3965 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3967 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3969 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3970 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3971 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3974 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3976 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3977 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3978 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3979 fixed to avoid this bug.
3981 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3983 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3984 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3986 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3987 ========================
3989 New, general features
3990 ---------------------
3992 Maildir-flag synchronization
3994 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3995 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4004 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4006 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4007 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4008 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4009 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4011 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4012 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4013 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4014 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4017 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4019 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4020 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4021 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4023 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4024 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4026 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4027 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4029 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4030 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4031 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4033 New library features
4034 --------------------
4036 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4038 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4039 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4040 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4041 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4043 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4044 message with the new function:
4046 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4048 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4049 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4050 over all available filenames for a given message.
4052 New command-line features
4053 -------------------------
4055 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4057 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4058 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4059 access to the mail store itself.
4061 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4062 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4063 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4064 name of a script containing:
4066 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4068 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4069 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4075 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4077 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4079 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4081 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4082 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4083 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4084 now produces nothing).
4086 Emacs interface improvements
4087 ----------------------------
4089 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4091 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4093 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4095 Display current thread subject in a header line
4097 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4099 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4101 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4102 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4103 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4104 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4105 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4106 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4107 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4109 Vim interface improvements
4110 --------------------------
4112 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4114 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4115 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4121 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4123 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4124 ========================
4126 New command-line features
4127 -------------------------
4129 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4131 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4132 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4133 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4135 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4136 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4137 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4138 scripts. For example:
4140 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4141 <operations-on> "$file"
4144 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4146 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4147 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4148 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4149 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4150 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4151 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4153 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4155 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4156 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4157 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4158 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4160 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4162 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4163 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4164 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4165 default rather than Bcc.
4167 New library features
4168 --------------------
4170 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4172 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4173 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4178 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4180 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4181 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4182 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4183 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4184 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4185 notmuch customize interface.
4187 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4189 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4190 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4191 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4192 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4194 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4196 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4197 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4198 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4199 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4201 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4203 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4204 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4205 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4206 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4207 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4208 notmuch customize interface.
4210 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4212 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4213 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4214 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4215 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4216 notmuch customize interface.
4218 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4220 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4221 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4222 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4223 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4226 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4228 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4229 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4230 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4233 New build-system features
4234 -------------------------
4236 Various portability fixes have been applied
4238 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4239 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4240 more portable than ever before.
4242 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4244 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4245 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4246 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4248 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4249 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4250 automatically run ldconfig.
4252 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4253 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4254 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4256 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4257 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4258 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4259 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4261 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4263 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4264 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4265 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4266 used in the resulting Makefile.
4268 New test-suite features
4269 -----------------------
4271 New modularization of test suite
4273 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4274 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4275 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4276 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4277 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4278 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4279 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4280 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4282 New testing of emacs interface
4284 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4285 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4286 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4287 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4288 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4289 database via the FCC setting.
4294 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4296 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4297 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4298 persistent error of the form:
4300 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4302 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4303 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4305 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4307 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4308 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4309 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4311 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4313 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4314 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4315 parsing the notmuch results).
4317 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4319 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4322 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4323 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4324 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4329 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4331 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4332 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4333 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4334 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4335 the emacs interface.
4337 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4339 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4340 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4341 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4343 Python-binding fixes
4344 --------------------
4346 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4348 Debian-specific fixes
4349 ---------------------
4351 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4353 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4354 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4355 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4358 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4359 ==========================
4364 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4366 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4367 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4368 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4369 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4371 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4373 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4374 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4375 want notmuch to crash.
4380 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4382 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4383 directory does not exist
4388 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4390 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4391 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4393 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4394 ========================
4396 New command-line features
4397 -------------------------
4399 User-configurable tags for new messages
4401 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4402 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4403 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4404 to specify this value.
4406 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4408 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4409 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4410 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4412 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4414 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4415 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4417 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4419 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4420 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4421 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4422 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4423 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4426 Indication of author names that match a search
4428 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4429 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4430 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4431 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4432 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4433 messages in the thread are listed first.
4435 New: Python bindings
4436 --------------------
4438 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4439 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4440 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4441 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4443 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4444 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4445 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4448 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4449 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4450 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4452 Emacs interface improvements
4453 ----------------------------
4455 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4457 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4458 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4459 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4460 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4461 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4462 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4463 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4464 but without any of the disadvantages).
4466 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4467 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4468 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4471 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4472 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4473 instead running something like:
4475 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4477 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4478 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4479 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4482 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4484 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4485 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4486 tweaked by the user.
4488 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4489 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4490 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4493 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4494 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4495 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4498 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4500 This support currently relies on an external program,
4501 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4502 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4503 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4504 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4505 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4508 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4509 notmuch) is available via:
4511 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4513 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4514 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4515 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4517 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4519 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4520 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4521 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4522 making this automatic in a future release.
4524 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4526 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4527 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4528 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4529 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4530 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4531 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4534 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4536 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4537 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4538 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4540 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4542 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4543 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4544 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4546 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4547 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4548 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4549 other representation.
4551 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4552 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4555 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4557 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4558 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4559 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4561 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4562 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4563 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4565 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4567 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4568 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4569 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4570 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4571 to display the search result.
4573 More flexible handling of header visibility
4575 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4576 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4577 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4578 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4579 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4580 with the 'h' keybinding.
4582 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4583 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4584 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4586 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4588 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4590 Customizable formatting of search results
4592 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4593 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4594 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4596 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4598 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4600 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4605 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4607 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4608 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4609 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4610 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4616 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4618 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4619 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4621 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4623 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4624 accept are now all accepted.
4629 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4631 Better display of output from failed tests
4633 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4634 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4636 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4637 ========================
4639 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4640 detailed release notes this time!
4642 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4643 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4645 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4646 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4647 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4648 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4655 Better guessing of From: header
4657 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4658 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4659 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4660 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4661 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4664 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4666 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4667 guaranteed to match all messages.
4669 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4671 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4672 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4673 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4674 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4675 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4678 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4681 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4682 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4683 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4684 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4689 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4691 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4692 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4693 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4694 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4696 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4698 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4700 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4701 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4702 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4704 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4706 Previously, the user might see:
4708 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4712 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4714 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4715 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4716 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4717 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4719 Emacs client features
4720 ---------------------
4722 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4724 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4725 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4726 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4727 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4728 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4730 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4733 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4734 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4735 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4736 search with the '*' binding.
4738 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4740 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4741 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4744 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4746 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4747 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4748 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4750 Build-system features
4751 ---------------------
4753 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4755 Add support to configure for many standard options
4757 We include actual support for:
4759 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4761 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4763 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4764 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4766 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4767 separate "make install-emacs"
4769 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4771 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4772 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4773 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4775 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4778 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4779 ========================
4781 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4783 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4784 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4786 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4787 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4788 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4789 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4790 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4791 tags from messages in a thread.
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