1 Notmuch 0.26 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
10 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
11 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
14 Command Line Interface
15 ----------------------
17 Support for re-indexing existing messages
19 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
20 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
21 change the way specific messages are indexed.
23 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
24 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
25 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
27 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
29 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
31 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
33 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
34 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
35 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
36 the setting of `new.tags`.
41 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
43 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
44 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
45 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
46 on a per-message basis with the --decrypt argument to indexing
47 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
48 config set index.decrypt true".
50 Note that the contents of the index are sufficient to roughly
51 reconstruct the cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure
52 that the notmuch index itself is adequately protected. DO NOT USE
53 this feature without considering the security of your index.
58 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
60 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
61 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
62 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
63 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
65 New functions to count files
67 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
68 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
70 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
72 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
73 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
74 possibility of NULL was not documented.
79 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
80 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
82 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
83 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
84 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
85 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
86 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
87 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
89 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
90 ===========================
95 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
96 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
99 Command Line Interface
100 ----------------------
102 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
103 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
106 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
107 ===========================
109 Command Line Interface
110 ----------------------
112 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
113 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
118 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
121 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
122 ===========================
127 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
130 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
131 =========================
136 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
138 Skip HTML tags when indexing
140 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
142 Command Line Interface
143 ----------------------
145 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
147 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
152 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
154 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
155 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
158 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
163 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
165 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
166 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
168 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
170 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
171 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
174 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
176 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
178 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
180 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
181 ===========================
183 Command Line Interface
184 ----------------------
186 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
191 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
193 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
194 ===========================
199 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
201 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
202 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
205 Command Line Interface
206 ----------------------
208 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
210 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
212 Fix bug in dump header
214 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
215 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
216 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
221 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
223 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
224 =========================
229 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
231 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
234 Command Line Interface
235 ----------------------
237 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
239 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
240 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
241 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
243 New default output format to 3
245 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
246 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
247 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
248 default format changes.
253 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
255 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
256 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
257 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
258 or tree view to resume.
260 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
261 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
262 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
265 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
266 they were when you postponed in the final message.
270 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
271 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
272 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
273 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
274 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
278 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
279 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
280 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
281 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
282 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
283 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
287 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
288 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
290 Stop display of `application/*` parts
292 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
293 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
294 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
295 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
296 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
297 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
298 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
299 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
302 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
304 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
305 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
306 only tagged the current thread.)
308 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
310 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
311 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
312 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
314 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
316 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
317 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
318 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
319 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
320 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
321 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
322 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
324 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
326 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
327 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
328 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
333 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
335 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
338 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
340 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
343 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
344 ===========================
349 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
351 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
352 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
353 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
356 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
357 ===========================
359 Command Line Interface
360 ----------------------
362 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
367 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
369 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
370 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
371 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
373 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
374 ===========================
379 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
380 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
382 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
383 ===========================
385 Command Line Interface
386 ----------------------
388 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
390 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
391 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
392 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
397 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
399 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
400 ===========================
402 Command Line Interface
403 ----------------------
405 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
410 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
412 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
413 ===========================
418 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
420 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
421 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
422 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
424 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
426 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
428 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
429 ===========================
434 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
436 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
441 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
443 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
444 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
445 the original colours.
447 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
448 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
450 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
452 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
453 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
454 bug, and hence the test.
456 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
457 =========================
459 General (Xapian 1.4+)
460 ---------------------
462 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
464 Support for single argument date: queries
466 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
468 Support for blocking opens
470 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
471 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
473 Support for named queries
475 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
476 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
477 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
484 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
485 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
486 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
487 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
489 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
491 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
496 Support for compile time options
498 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
499 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
502 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
504 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
505 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
506 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
507 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
508 scripts to ignore it.
513 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
515 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
516 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
517 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
519 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
520 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
521 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
522 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
523 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
524 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
525 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
527 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
528 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
531 Make internal address completion customizable
533 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
534 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
535 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
536 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
539 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
541 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
542 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
543 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
544 completion for the current buffer.
546 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
547 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
548 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
552 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
553 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
554 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
555 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
556 will be added instead.
558 Face customization is easier
560 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
561 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
562 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
563 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
565 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
570 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
575 Go bindings moved to contrib
577 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
579 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
581 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
582 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
584 The same issue occured with sort modes.
586 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
587 ===========================
594 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
595 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
597 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
599 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
601 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
602 ===========================
607 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
609 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
614 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
619 Use `env` to locate perl.
624 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
626 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
628 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
630 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
632 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
633 =========================
640 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
641 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
643 Limited support for S/MIME messages
645 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
646 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
647 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
652 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
653 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
654 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
656 Command Line Interface
657 ----------------------
659 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
661 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
666 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
671 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
673 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
674 parts are now included in replies.
676 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
677 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
678 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
679 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
681 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
683 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
685 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
687 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
688 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
689 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
690 forwards only the current message.
692 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
694 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
695 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
696 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
697 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
698 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
699 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
700 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
701 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
704 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
705 longer generate empty buffers
707 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
708 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
709 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
710 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
711 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
713 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
715 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
718 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
720 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
723 Address completion improvements
725 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
726 you previously configured one, customize the variable
727 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
728 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
729 interactive address completion.
731 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
733 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
734 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
735 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
740 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
741 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
742 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
748 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
749 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
750 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
751 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
752 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
753 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
755 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
756 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
757 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
758 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
759 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
760 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
762 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
763 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
765 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
766 =========================
771 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
774 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
776 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
777 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
778 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
780 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
781 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
783 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
784 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
785 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
787 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
789 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
790 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
791 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
792 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
793 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
794 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
799 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
800 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
803 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
806 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
808 Command Line Interface
809 ----------------------
811 Database revision tracking
813 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
814 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
815 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
816 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
818 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
820 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
821 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
822 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
823 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
824 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
825 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
826 manual page for further information.
831 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
833 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
834 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
836 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
838 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
839 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
840 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
842 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
844 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
846 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
847 customization as well.
849 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
851 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
853 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
855 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
857 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
858 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
859 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
860 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
862 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
864 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
865 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
866 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
867 this variable to 10000.
872 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
873 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
875 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
877 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
878 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
879 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
880 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
881 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
882 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
883 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
884 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
885 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
888 Database revision tracking
890 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
891 query parser and the new function
892 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
894 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
898 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
899 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
900 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
901 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
906 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
908 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
909 ===========================
914 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
916 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
917 ===========================
922 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
924 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
925 =========================
927 Command-Line Interface
928 ----------------------
930 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
932 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
933 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
934 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
936 Path to gpg is now configurable
938 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
939 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
944 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
946 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
951 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
956 Support messages without Message-IDs.
961 Undeprecate single message mboxes
963 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
964 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
966 New error logging facility
968 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
969 output formerly printed to stderr.
971 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
973 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
975 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
977 Fix for rounding of seconds
982 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
984 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
985 docmumentation has been removed.
987 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
989 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
990 some material from the relicensed wiki.
995 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
996 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
997 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1002 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1003 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1004 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1005 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1006 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1007 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1010 git checkout config origin/config
1012 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1014 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1015 =========================
1020 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1021 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1022 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1023 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1024 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1025 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1026 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1028 Command-Line Interface
1029 ----------------------
1031 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1033 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1034 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1035 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1036 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1037 script callers should still check the return value.
1039 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1041 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1042 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1043 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1044 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1045 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1046 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1047 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1049 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1051 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1052 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1053 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1055 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1057 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1058 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1059 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1060 currently unmaintained.
1062 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1064 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1065 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1066 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1067 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1069 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1071 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1072 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1073 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1074 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1075 count of duplicate addresses.
1080 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1082 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1083 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1084 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1087 Improved handling of the unread tag
1089 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1090 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1091 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1092 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1093 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1094 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1095 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1097 Expanded default saved search settings
1099 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1100 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1102 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1104 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1105 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1106 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1108 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1110 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1111 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1112 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1113 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1114 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1115 the variable for details.
1120 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1122 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1123 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1124 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1125 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1127 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1129 Previously, library users were required to call
1130 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1131 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1132 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1133 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1134 too out of date for that API.
1136 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1138 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1139 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1140 atomic section will be aborted.
1142 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1143 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1145 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1147 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1148 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1149 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1150 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1151 messages into the same thread.
1156 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1157 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1158 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1159 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1160 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1161 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1166 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1167 from the config file. Use something like:
1171 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1172 "footer": "</body></html>",
1181 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1186 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1187 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1188 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1190 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1191 ===========================
1196 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1198 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1200 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1202 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1203 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1205 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1207 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1210 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1211 ===========================
1213 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1218 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1220 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1222 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1224 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1226 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1232 Use --quick when starting emacs
1234 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1236 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1238 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1240 Command-Line Interface
1241 ----------------------
1243 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1244 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1249 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1251 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1252 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1254 Fix for phrase indexing
1256 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1257 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1258 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1263 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1265 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1266 unintentionally removed.
1268 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1269 =========================
1274 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1275 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1276 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1277 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1278 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1279 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1280 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1281 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1282 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1288 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1290 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1291 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1292 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1293 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1294 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1295 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1296 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1297 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1299 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1301 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1302 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1303 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1304 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1307 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1309 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1310 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1311 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1312 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1313 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1314 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1315 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1320 Notmuch database upgrade
1322 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1323 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1324 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1325 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1326 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1327 released version of Notmuch before now.
1329 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1331 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1332 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1333 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1334 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1336 Message header parsing changes
1338 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1339 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1340 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1341 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1342 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1343 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1345 Command-Line Interface
1346 ----------------------
1348 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1350 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1352 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1354 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1356 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1358 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1359 user does not want it.
1361 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1363 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1364 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1365 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1366 support formatted output.
1368 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1370 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1371 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1372 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1380 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1381 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1382 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1383 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1384 `~/.emacs` with these.
1386 Changed format for saved searches
1388 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1389 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1390 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1391 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1394 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1395 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1396 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1397 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1399 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1400 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1401 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1403 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1404 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1405 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1406 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1407 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1409 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1411 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1412 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1413 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1415 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1417 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1418 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1419 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1420 message had been unread).
1422 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1423 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1424 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1425 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1427 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1428 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1429 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1431 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1432 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1433 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1434 to tags already present.
1438 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1439 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1440 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1441 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1442 these differ from each other.
1443 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1445 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1447 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1448 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1449 for these Emacs versions.
1451 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1453 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1454 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1456 Bug fixes for sender identities
1458 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1459 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1460 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1462 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1464 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1465 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1466 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1467 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1469 Reply pushes mark before signature
1471 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1472 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1473 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1475 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1477 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1478 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1484 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1485 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1487 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1488 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1489 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1490 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1492 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1493 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1494 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1495 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1496 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1498 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1500 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1501 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1503 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1504 =========================
1506 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1507 ---------------------------------------
1509 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1510 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1511 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1512 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1513 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1514 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1515 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1519 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1520 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1522 Command-Line Interface
1523 ----------------------
1525 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1527 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1528 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1529 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1530 print for each message.
1532 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1533 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1534 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1535 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1537 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1539 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1540 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1541 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1543 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1545 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1546 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1547 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1548 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1550 `notmuch compact` command
1552 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1553 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1554 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1555 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1556 move the compacted database into place.
1561 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1563 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1564 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1565 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1566 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1567 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1568 and multiple threads.
1570 Using `notmuch-tree`
1572 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1574 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1575 search, show and tree mode itself)
1577 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1580 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1581 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1583 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1585 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1586 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1587 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1588 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1589 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1590 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1591 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1593 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1595 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1596 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1597 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1598 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1599 thread when the search was performed.
1601 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1603 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1604 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1605 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1607 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1609 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1610 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1613 Built-in help improvements
1615 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1616 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1617 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1619 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1621 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1622 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1623 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1625 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1627 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1628 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1630 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1632 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1633 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1634 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1635 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1637 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1639 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1640 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1641 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1642 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1644 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1646 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1647 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1648 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1650 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1652 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1653 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1654 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1656 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1658 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1659 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1660 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1661 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1662 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1664 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1666 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1667 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1668 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1669 the body part of the message.
1674 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1675 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1676 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1678 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1679 =========================
1681 Command-Line Interface
1682 ----------------------
1684 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1686 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1687 folder and notmuch index.
1689 `notmuch count --batch` option
1691 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1692 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1694 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1696 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1697 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1698 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1701 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1703 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1704 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1705 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1706 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1707 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1710 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1712 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1713 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1715 Top level option to specify configuration file
1717 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1718 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1720 Bash command-line completion
1722 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1723 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1724 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1725 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1726 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1727 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1728 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1729 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1730 bash-completion package.
1732 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1737 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1739 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1740 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1741 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1742 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1743 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1744 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1745 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1746 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1748 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1750 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1751 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1752 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1754 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1756 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1757 previous thread in the search results.
1759 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1761 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1762 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1764 Faster search and show
1766 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1767 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1768 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1769 threads should show faster.
1773 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1774 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1775 in question was now removed from this release.
1780 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1781 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1786 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1788 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1789 ===========================
1794 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1796 Internal test framework changes
1797 -------------------------------
1799 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1800 being unimplemented.
1802 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1803 ===========================
1805 Internal test framework changes
1806 -------------------------------
1808 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1809 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1811 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1812 =========================
1817 Date range search support
1819 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1820 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1821 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1822 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1823 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1826 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1828 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1829 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1830 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1831 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1832 but may be removed in a future release.
1834 Command-Line Interface
1835 ----------------------
1837 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1839 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1840 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1842 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1844 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1845 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1846 officially deprecated.
1848 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1850 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1851 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1852 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1854 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1856 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1857 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1860 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1861 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1862 dump/restore format.
1864 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1866 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1867 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1868 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1870 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1872 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1873 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1874 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1876 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1878 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1879 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1880 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1881 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1886 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1888 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1889 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1890 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1891 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1893 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1895 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1896 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1897 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1898 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1899 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1900 the behavior of this, see
1901 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1902 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1904 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1905 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1906 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1908 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1910 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1911 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1914 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1916 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1917 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1918 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1919 simply displayed in place of the message.
1921 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1923 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1924 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1926 Improved text/calendar content handling
1928 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1929 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1930 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1931 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1933 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1935 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1936 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1937 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1938 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1940 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1942 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1943 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1944 for HTML email containing images.
1946 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1948 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1950 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1952 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1955 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1957 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1958 the point where it was.
1960 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1962 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1963 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1964 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1965 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1966 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1968 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1970 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1971 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1972 thread instead of the message id.
1974 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1975 -----------------------------
1977 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1978 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1979 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1980 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1981 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1982 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1983 further details and installation.
1988 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1990 Internal test framework changes
1991 -------------------------------
1993 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1995 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1996 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1997 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1998 can result in buggy behavior.
2000 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2001 =========================
2006 Maildir tag synchronization
2008 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2009 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2010 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2011 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2012 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2013 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2016 Command-Line Interface
2017 ----------------------
2019 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2020 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2021 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2022 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2023 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2029 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2031 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2033 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2034 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2035 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2037 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2039 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2040 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2041 span multiple lines.
2043 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2045 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2046 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2047 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2048 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2049 inside the result or message.
2051 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2053 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2054 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2056 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2057 user-specified formatting
2059 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2060 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2061 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2062 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2063 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2065 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2066 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2068 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2069 ===========================
2074 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2075 compilation error for this contrib package.
2077 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2078 ===========================
2083 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2085 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2086 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2087 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2088 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2090 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2091 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2094 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2095 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2096 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2097 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2100 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2102 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2105 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2106 =========================
2108 Command-Line Interface
2109 ----------------------
2113 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2114 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2115 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2116 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2118 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2119 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2120 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2121 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2125 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2126 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2128 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2129 tag in your query, for example:
2131 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2133 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2134 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2136 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2137 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2139 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2141 Raw show format changes
2143 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2144 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2145 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2146 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2147 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2148 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2149 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2150 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2152 Listing configuration items
2154 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2160 Changes to tagging interface
2162 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2163 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2164 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2165 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2166 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2167 for more information.
2169 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2170 may need to update in custom configurations.
2172 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2174 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2175 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2176 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2177 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2180 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2181 -----------------------------
2183 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2184 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2185 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2186 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2187 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2188 contrib/ from now on.
2193 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2194 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2196 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2197 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2199 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2200 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2201 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2203 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2204 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2206 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2207 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2208 returning the new database object or directory object.
2215 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2216 compatible with go 1.
2218 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2219 =========================
2221 Command-Line Interface
2222 ----------------------
2226 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2227 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2228 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2229 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2231 Mail store folder/file ignore
2233 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2234 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2235 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2237 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2238 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2240 Unified help and manual pages
2242 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2243 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2246 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2248 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2249 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2257 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2258 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2259 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2260 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2262 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2264 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2265 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2267 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2270 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2271 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2272 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2274 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2276 should be changed to:
2278 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2280 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2282 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2283 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2285 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2287 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2288 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2289 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2290 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2291 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2292 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2296 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2297 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2298 of Mailing List Archives.
2300 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2302 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2303 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2306 Show view archiving key binding changes
2308 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2309 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2310 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2311 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2312 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2315 Support text/calendar MIME type
2317 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2320 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2322 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2323 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2324 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2325 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2327 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2329 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2330 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2331 messages blue by default in the search view.
2335 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2336 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2343 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2346 Python bindings changes
2347 -----------------------
2349 Python 3.2 compatibility
2351 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2353 Added missing unicode conversions
2355 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2356 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2357 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2362 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2364 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2365 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2366 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2367 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2368 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2370 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2371 ===========================
2376 Fix error handling in python bindings
2378 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2379 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2380 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2381 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2383 Quote MML tags in replies
2385 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2386 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2387 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2388 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2389 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2390 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2391 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2392 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2394 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2395 =========================
2397 Command-Line Interface
2398 ----------------------
2402 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2403 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2404 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2405 importing new messages into the database.
2407 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2409 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2410 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2411 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2416 Automatic tag query optimization
2418 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2419 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2420 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2422 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2424 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2425 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2426 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2431 Reduction of memory leaks
2433 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2434 and fixed in this release.
2441 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2442 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2443 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2446 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2448 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2449 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2450 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2453 Improvements in saved search management
2455 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2456 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2457 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2459 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2461 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2462 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2463 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2465 New face for crypto parts headers
2467 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2468 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2469 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2472 Use space as default thousands separator
2474 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2475 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2476 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2478 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2479 buttonized id: links
2481 New function notmuch-show-advance
2483 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2484 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2485 be bound to SPC with:
2487 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2489 Various performance improvements
2494 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2495 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2498 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2499 ===========================
2504 Fix crash in python bindings
2506 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2507 for some, but not all users.
2509 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2510 ===========================
2515 Fix `--help` argument
2517 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2518 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2519 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2521 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2522 =========================
2524 New build and testing features
2525 ------------------------------
2527 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2528 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2529 prerequisites is improved.
2531 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2533 New command-line features
2534 -------------------------
2536 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2538 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2539 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2542 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2544 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2545 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2546 favour of using stdout.
2548 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2550 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2551 limit the number of results shown.
2553 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2555 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2556 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2559 New emacs UI features
2560 ---------------------
2562 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2564 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2565 starting with "tag:".
2567 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2569 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2570 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2572 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2574 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2576 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2578 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2579 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2584 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2586 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2588 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2589 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2590 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2591 requires a database rebuild:
2593 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2594 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2596 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2598 New collection of add-on tools
2599 ------------------------------
2601 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2602 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2603 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2606 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2608 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2609 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2610 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2612 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2613 ========================
2615 New, general features
2616 ---------------------
2618 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2620 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2621 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2622 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2623 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2624 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2631 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2632 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2634 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2638 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2639 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2640 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2643 Python bindings changes
2644 -----------------------
2646 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2648 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2649 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2650 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2651 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2652 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2653 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2655 Ruby bindings changes
2656 ---------------------
2658 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2659 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2660 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2661 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2666 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2668 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2669 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2671 Reply formatting cleanup
2672 ------------------------
2674 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2675 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2677 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2678 ========================
2680 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2682 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2683 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2684 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2685 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2688 Improved Build system portability
2690 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2691 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2692 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2694 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2696 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2698 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2700 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2701 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2702 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2704 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2705 ========================
2707 Vim interface improvements
2708 --------------------------
2710 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2712 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2713 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2714 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2715 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2716 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2718 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2720 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2721 * fix compose temp file name
2723 Python Bindings changes
2724 -----------------------
2726 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2728 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2729 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2731 Build-System improvements
2732 -------------------------
2734 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2736 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2739 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2740 ==========================
2745 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2747 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2748 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2750 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2751 =======================
2753 New, general features
2754 ---------------------
2756 Folder-based searching
2758 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2759 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2760 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2764 For example, one might use things such as:
2770 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2771 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2773 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2774 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2775 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2776 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2778 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2779 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2780 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2783 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2784 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2786 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2788 Support for PGP/MIME
2790 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2791 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2792 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2794 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2796 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2797 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2799 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2800 notmuch will receive these tags.
2802 New command-line features
2803 -------------------------
2805 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2807 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2808 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2810 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2812 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2813 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2814 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2816 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2818 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2819 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2820 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2821 which parts a signature part applies).
2823 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2825 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2826 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2827 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2828 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2829 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2832 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2834 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2835 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2836 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2837 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2838 by translating it internally to the new call.
2840 Performance improvements
2841 ------------------------
2843 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2845 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2846 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2847 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2849 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2850 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2852 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2854 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2855 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2856 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2858 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2859 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2860 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2861 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2863 Faster initial indexing
2865 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2866 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2867 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2869 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2871 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2872 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2873 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2874 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2876 New emacs-interface features
2877 ----------------------------
2879 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2881 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2882 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2883 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2884 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2885 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2886 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2888 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2890 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2891 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2892 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2893 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2895 User-selectable From address
2897 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2898 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2899 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2900 will prompt for the from address to use.
2902 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2903 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2904 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2906 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2907 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2908 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2911 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2913 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2914 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2916 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2918 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2920 ----- Original Message -----
2922 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2923 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2924 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2925 citations work much like conventional citations.
2927 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2929 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2930 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2931 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2932 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2933 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2935 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2936 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2938 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2940 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2941 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2942 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2944 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2946 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2947 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2948 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2949 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2950 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2952 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2954 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2957 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2959 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2961 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2963 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2966 Vim interface improvements
2967 --------------------------
2969 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2971 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2972 * Implementing archive in show view
2973 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2974 * Add delete commands
2977 Bindings improvements
2978 ---------------------
2980 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2982 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2983 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2985 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2987 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2991 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2992 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2993 `list(Messages)` works now
2994 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2996 These allow, for example:
2998 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3000 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3002 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3008 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3010 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3013 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3015 New build-system features
3016 -------------------------
3018 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3020 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3021 the configure script from some other directory:
3028 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3030 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3031 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3032 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3033 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3034 manual invocation of configure.
3036 New test-suite feature
3037 ----------------------
3039 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3041 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3042 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3043 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3044 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3045 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3048 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3050 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3051 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3052 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3053 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3054 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3055 are updated to take advantage of this.
3057 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3059 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3060 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3061 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3062 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3068 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3070 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3071 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3072 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3074 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3076 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3078 to:user@elsewhere.com
3080 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3082 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3084 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3086 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3087 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3088 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3091 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3092 from the Received headers in some cases
3094 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3095 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3097 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3099 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3101 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3103 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3104 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3105 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3107 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3108 -------------------------
3110 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3112 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3113 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3114 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3116 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3118 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3119 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3120 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3123 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3125 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3126 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3127 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3128 fixed to avoid this bug.
3130 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3132 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3133 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3135 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3136 ========================
3138 New, general features
3139 ---------------------
3141 Maildir-flag synchronization
3143 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3144 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3153 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3155 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3156 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3157 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3158 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3160 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3161 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3162 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3163 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3166 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3168 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3169 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3170 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3172 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3173 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3175 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3176 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3178 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3179 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3180 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3182 New library features
3183 --------------------
3185 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3187 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3188 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3189 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3190 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3192 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3193 message with the new function:
3195 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3197 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3198 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3199 over all available filenames for a given message.
3201 New command-line features
3202 -------------------------
3204 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3206 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3207 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3208 access to the mail store itself.
3210 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3211 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3212 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3213 name of a script containing:
3215 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3217 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3218 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3224 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3226 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3228 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3230 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3231 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3232 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3233 now produces nothing).
3235 Emacs interface improvements
3236 ----------------------------
3238 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3240 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3242 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3244 Display current thread subject in a header line
3246 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3248 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3250 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3251 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3252 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3253 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3254 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3255 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3256 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3258 Vim interface improvements
3259 --------------------------
3261 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3263 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3264 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3270 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3272 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3273 ========================
3275 New command-line features
3276 -------------------------
3278 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3280 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3281 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3282 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3284 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3285 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3286 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3287 scripts. For example:
3289 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3290 <operations-on> "$file"
3293 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3295 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3296 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3297 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3298 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3299 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3300 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3302 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3304 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3305 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3306 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3307 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3309 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3311 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3312 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3313 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3314 default rather than Bcc.
3316 New library features
3317 --------------------
3319 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3321 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3322 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3327 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3329 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3330 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3331 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3332 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3333 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3334 notmuch customize interface.
3336 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3338 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3339 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3340 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3341 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3343 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3345 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3346 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3347 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3348 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3350 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3352 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3353 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3354 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3355 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3356 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3357 notmuch customize interface.
3359 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3361 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3362 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3363 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3364 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3365 notmuch customize interface.
3367 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3369 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3370 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3371 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3372 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3375 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3377 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3378 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3379 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3382 New build-system features
3383 -------------------------
3385 Various portability fixes have been applied
3387 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3388 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3389 more portable than ever before.
3391 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3393 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3394 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3395 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3397 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3398 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3399 automatically run ldconfig.
3401 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3402 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3403 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3405 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3406 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3407 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3408 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3410 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3412 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3413 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3414 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3415 used in the resulting Makefile.
3417 New test-suite features
3418 -----------------------
3420 New modularization of test suite
3422 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3423 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3424 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3425 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3426 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3427 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3428 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3429 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3431 New testing of emacs interface
3433 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3434 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3435 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3436 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3437 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3438 database via the FCC setting.
3443 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3445 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3446 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3447 persistent error of the form:
3449 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3451 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3452 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3454 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3456 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3457 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3458 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3460 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3462 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3463 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3464 parsing the notmuch results).
3466 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3468 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3471 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3472 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3473 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3478 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3480 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3481 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3482 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3483 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3484 the emacs interface.
3486 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3488 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3489 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3490 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3492 Python-binding fixes
3493 --------------------
3495 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3497 Debian-specific fixes
3498 ---------------------
3500 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3502 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3503 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3504 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3507 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3508 ==========================
3513 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3515 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3516 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3517 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3518 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3520 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3522 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3523 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3524 want notmuch to crash.
3529 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3531 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3532 directory does not exist
3537 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3539 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3540 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3542 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3543 ========================
3545 New command-line features
3546 -------------------------
3548 User-configurable tags for new messages
3550 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3551 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3552 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3553 to specify this value.
3555 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3557 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3558 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3559 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3561 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3563 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3564 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3566 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3568 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3569 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3570 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3571 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3572 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3575 Indication of author names that match a search
3577 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3578 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3579 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3580 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3581 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3582 messages in the thread are listed first.
3584 New: Python bindings
3585 --------------------
3587 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3588 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3589 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3590 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3592 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3593 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3594 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3597 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3598 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3599 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3601 Emacs interface improvements
3602 ----------------------------
3604 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3606 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3607 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3608 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3609 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3610 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3611 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3612 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3613 but without any of the disadvantages).
3615 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3616 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3617 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3620 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3621 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3622 instead running something like:
3624 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3626 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3627 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3628 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3631 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3633 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3634 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3635 tweaked by the user.
3637 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3638 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3639 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3642 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3643 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3644 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3647 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3649 This support currently relies on an external program,
3650 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3651 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3652 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3653 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3654 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3657 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3658 notmuch) is available via:
3660 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3662 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3663 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3664 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3666 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3668 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3669 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3670 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3671 making this automatic in a future release.
3673 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3675 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3676 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3677 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3678 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3679 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3680 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3683 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3685 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3686 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3687 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3689 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3691 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3692 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3693 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3695 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3696 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3697 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3698 other representation.
3700 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3701 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3704 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3706 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3707 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3708 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3710 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3711 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3712 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3714 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3716 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3717 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3718 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3719 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3720 to display the search result.
3722 More flexible handling of header visibility
3724 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3725 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3726 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3727 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3728 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3729 with the 'h' keybinding.
3731 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3732 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3733 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3735 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3737 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3739 Customizable formatting of search results
3741 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3742 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3743 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3745 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3747 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3749 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3754 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3756 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3757 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3758 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3759 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3765 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3767 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3768 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3770 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3772 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3773 accept are now all accepted.
3778 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3780 Better display of output from failed tests
3782 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3783 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3785 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3786 ========================
3788 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3789 detailed release notes this time!
3791 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3792 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3794 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3795 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3796 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3797 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3804 Better guessing of From: header
3806 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3807 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3808 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3809 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3810 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3813 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3815 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3816 guaranteed to match all messages.
3818 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3820 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3821 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3822 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3823 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3824 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3827 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3830 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3831 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3832 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3833 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3838 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3840 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3841 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3842 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3843 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3845 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3847 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3849 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3850 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3851 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3853 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3855 Previously, the user might see:
3857 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3861 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3863 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3864 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3865 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3866 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3868 Emacs client features
3869 ---------------------
3871 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3873 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3874 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3875 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3876 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3877 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3879 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3882 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3883 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3884 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3885 search with the '*' binding.
3887 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3889 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3890 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3893 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3895 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3896 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3897 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3899 Build-system features
3900 ---------------------
3902 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3904 Add support to configure for many standard options
3906 We include actual support for:
3908 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3910 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3912 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3913 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3915 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3916 separate "make install-emacs"
3918 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3920 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3921 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3922 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3924 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3927 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3928 ========================
3930 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3932 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3933 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3935 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3936 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3937 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3938 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3939 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3940 tags from messages in a thread.
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