1 Notmuch 0.24 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`.
9 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
15 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
17 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
18 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
19 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
20 or tree view to resume.
22 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
23 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
24 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
27 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
28 they were when you postponed in the final message.
32 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
33 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
34 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
35 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
36 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
40 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
41 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
42 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
43 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
44 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
45 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
49 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
50 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
52 Stop display of application/* parts
54 By default gnus displays all application/* parts such as
55 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
56 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
57 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
58 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
59 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
60 application/* add application/* to your customization. If you want
61 to allow application/* then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
64 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
66 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
67 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
68 only tagged the current thread.)
70 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers.
72 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
73 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
74 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
79 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive.
81 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
84 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
86 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
89 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
90 ===========================
95 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
97 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
98 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
99 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
102 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
103 ===========================
105 Command Line Interface
106 ----------------------
108 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
113 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
115 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
116 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
117 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
119 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
120 ===========================
125 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
126 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
128 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
129 ===========================
131 Command Line Interface
132 ----------------------
134 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
136 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
137 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
138 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
143 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
145 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
146 ===========================
148 Command Line Interface
149 ----------------------
151 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
156 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
158 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
159 ===========================
164 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
166 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
167 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
168 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
170 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
172 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
174 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
175 ===========================
180 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
182 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
187 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
189 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
190 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
191 the original colours.
193 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
194 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
196 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
198 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
199 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
200 bug, and hence the test.
202 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
203 =========================
205 General (Xapian 1.4+)
206 ---------------------
208 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
210 Support for single argument date: queries
212 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
214 Support for blocking opens
216 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
217 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
219 Support for named queries
221 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
222 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
223 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
230 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
231 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
232 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
233 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
235 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
237 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
242 Support for compile time options
244 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
245 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
248 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
250 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
251 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
252 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
253 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
254 scripts to ignore it.
259 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
261 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
262 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
263 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
265 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
266 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
267 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
268 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
269 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
270 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
271 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
273 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
274 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
277 Make internal address completion customizable
279 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
280 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
281 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
282 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
285 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
287 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
288 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
289 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
290 completion for the current buffer.
292 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
293 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
294 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
298 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
299 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
300 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
301 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
302 will be added instead.
304 Face customization is easier
306 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
307 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
308 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
309 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
311 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
316 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
321 Go bindings moved to contrib
323 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
325 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
327 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
328 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
330 The same issue occured with sort modes.
332 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
333 ===========================
340 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
341 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
343 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
345 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
347 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
348 ===========================
353 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
355 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
360 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
365 Use `env` to locate perl.
370 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
372 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
374 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
376 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
378 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
379 =========================
386 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
387 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
389 Limited support for S/MIME messages
391 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
392 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
393 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
398 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
399 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
400 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
402 Command Line Interface
403 ----------------------
405 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
407 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
412 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
417 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
419 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
420 parts are now included in replies.
422 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
423 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
424 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
425 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
427 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
429 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
431 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
433 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
434 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
435 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
436 forwards only the current message.
438 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
440 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
441 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
442 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
443 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
444 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
445 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
446 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
447 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
450 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
451 longer generate empty buffers
453 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
454 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
455 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
456 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
457 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
459 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
461 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
464 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
466 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
469 Address completion improvements
471 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
472 you previously configured one, customize the variable
473 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
474 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
475 interactive address completion.
477 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
479 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
480 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
481 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
486 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
487 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
488 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
494 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
495 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
496 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
497 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
498 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
499 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
501 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
502 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
503 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
504 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
505 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
506 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
508 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
509 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
511 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
512 =========================
517 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
520 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
522 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
523 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
524 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
526 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
527 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
529 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
530 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
531 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
533 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
535 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
536 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
537 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
538 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
539 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
540 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
545 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
546 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
549 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
552 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
554 Command Line Interface
555 ----------------------
557 Database revision tracking
559 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
560 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
561 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
562 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
564 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
566 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
567 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
568 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
569 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
570 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
571 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
572 manual page for further information.
577 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
579 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
580 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
582 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
584 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
585 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
586 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
588 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
590 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
592 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
593 customization as well.
595 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
597 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
599 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
601 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
603 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
604 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
605 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
606 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
608 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
610 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
611 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
612 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
613 this variable to 10000.
618 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
619 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
621 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
623 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
624 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
625 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
626 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
627 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
628 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
629 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
630 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
631 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
634 Database revision tracking
636 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
637 query parser and the new function
638 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
640 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
644 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
645 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
646 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
647 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
652 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
654 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
655 ===========================
660 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
662 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
663 ===========================
668 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
670 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
671 =========================
673 Command-Line Interface
674 ----------------------
676 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
678 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
679 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
680 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
682 Path to gpg is now configurable
684 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
685 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
690 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
692 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
697 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
702 Support messages without Message-IDs.
707 Undeprecate single message mboxes
709 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
710 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
712 New error logging facility
714 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
715 output formerly printed to stderr.
717 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
719 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
721 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
723 Fix for rounding of seconds
728 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
730 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
731 docmumentation has been removed.
733 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
735 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
736 some material from the relicensed wiki.
741 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
742 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
743 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
748 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
749 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
750 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
751 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
752 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
753 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
756 git checkout config origin/config
758 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
760 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
761 =========================
766 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
767 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
768 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
769 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
770 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
771 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
772 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
774 Command-Line Interface
775 ----------------------
777 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
779 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
780 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
781 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
782 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
783 script callers should still check the return value.
785 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
787 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
788 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
789 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
790 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
791 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
792 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
793 and returning success even if indexing fails).
795 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
797 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
798 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
799 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
801 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
803 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
804 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
805 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
806 currently unmaintained.
808 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
810 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
811 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
812 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
813 have at least `N` files associated with them.
815 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
817 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
818 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
819 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
820 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
821 count of duplicate addresses.
826 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
828 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
829 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
830 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
833 Improved handling of the unread tag
835 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
836 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
837 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
838 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
839 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
840 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
841 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
843 Expanded default saved search settings
845 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
846 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
848 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
850 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
851 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
852 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
854 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
856 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
857 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
858 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
859 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
860 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
861 the variable for details.
866 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
868 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
869 Representing these independently of the database version number will
870 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
871 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
873 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
875 Previously, library users were required to call
876 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
877 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
878 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
879 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
880 too out of date for that API.
882 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
884 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
885 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
886 atomic section will be aborted.
888 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
889 `notmuch_database_destroy`
891 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
893 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
894 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
895 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
896 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
897 messages into the same thread.
902 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
903 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
904 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
905 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
906 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
907 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
912 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
913 from the config file. Use something like:
917 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
918 "footer": "</body></html>",
927 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
932 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
933 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
934 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
936 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
937 ===========================
942 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
944 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
946 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
948 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
949 structure for signatures changed slightly.
951 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
953 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
956 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
957 ===========================
959 This is a bug fix and portability release.
964 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
966 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
968 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
970 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
972 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
978 Use --quick when starting emacs
980 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
982 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
984 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
986 Command-Line Interface
987 ----------------------
989 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
990 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
995 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
997 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
998 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1000 Fix for phrase indexing
1002 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1003 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1004 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1009 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1011 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1012 unintentionally removed.
1014 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1015 =========================
1020 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1021 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1022 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1023 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1024 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1025 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1026 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1027 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1028 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1034 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1036 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1037 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1038 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1039 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1040 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1041 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1042 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1043 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1045 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1047 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1048 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1049 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1050 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1053 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1055 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1056 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1057 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1058 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1059 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1060 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1061 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1066 Notmuch database upgrade
1068 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1069 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1070 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1071 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1072 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1073 released version of Notmuch before now.
1075 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1077 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1078 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1079 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1080 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1082 Message header parsing changes
1084 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1085 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1086 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1087 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1088 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1089 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1091 Command-Line Interface
1092 ----------------------
1094 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1096 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1098 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1100 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1102 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1104 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1105 user does not want it.
1107 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1109 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1110 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1111 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1112 support formatted output.
1114 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1116 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1117 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1118 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1126 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1127 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1128 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1129 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1130 `~/.emacs` with these.
1132 Changed format for saved searches
1134 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1135 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1136 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1137 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1140 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1141 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1142 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1143 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1145 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1146 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1147 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1149 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1150 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1151 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1152 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1153 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1155 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1157 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1158 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1159 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1161 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1163 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1164 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1165 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1166 message had been unread).
1168 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1169 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1170 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1171 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1173 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1174 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1175 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1177 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1178 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1179 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1180 to tags already present.
1184 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1185 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1186 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1187 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1188 these differ from each other.
1189 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1191 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1193 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1194 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1195 for these Emacs versions.
1197 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1199 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1200 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1202 Bug fixes for sender identities
1204 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1205 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1206 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1208 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1210 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1211 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1212 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1213 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1215 Reply pushes mark before signature
1217 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1218 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1219 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1221 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1223 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1224 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1230 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1231 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1233 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1234 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1235 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1236 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1238 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1239 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1240 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1241 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1242 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1244 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1246 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1247 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1249 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1250 =========================
1252 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1253 ---------------------------------------
1255 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1256 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1257 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1258 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1259 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1260 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1261 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1265 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1266 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1268 Command-Line Interface
1269 ----------------------
1271 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1273 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1274 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1275 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1276 print for each message.
1278 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1279 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1280 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1281 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1283 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1285 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1286 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1287 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1289 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1291 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1292 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1293 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1294 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1296 `notmuch compact` command
1298 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1299 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1300 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1301 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1302 move the compacted database into place.
1307 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1309 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1310 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1311 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1312 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1313 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1314 and multiple threads.
1316 Using `notmuch-tree`
1318 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1320 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1321 search, show and tree mode itself)
1323 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1326 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1327 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1329 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1331 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1332 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1333 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1334 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1335 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1336 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1337 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1339 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1341 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1342 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1343 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1344 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1345 thread when the search was performed.
1347 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1349 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1350 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1351 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1353 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1355 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1356 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1359 Built-in help improvements
1361 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1362 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1363 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1365 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1367 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1368 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1369 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1371 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1373 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1374 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1376 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1378 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1379 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1380 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1381 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1383 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1385 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1386 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1387 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1388 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1390 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1392 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1393 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1394 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1396 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1398 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1399 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1400 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1402 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1404 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1405 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1406 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1407 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1408 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1410 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1412 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1413 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1414 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1415 the body part of the message.
1420 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1421 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1422 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1424 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1425 =========================
1427 Command-Line Interface
1428 ----------------------
1430 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1432 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1433 folder and notmuch index.
1435 `notmuch count --batch` option
1437 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1438 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1440 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1442 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1443 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1444 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1447 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1449 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1450 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1451 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1452 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1453 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1456 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1458 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1459 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1461 Top level option to specify configuration file
1463 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1464 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1466 Bash command-line completion
1468 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1469 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1470 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1471 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1472 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1473 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1474 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1475 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1476 bash-completion package.
1478 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1483 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1485 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1486 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1487 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1488 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1489 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1490 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1491 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1492 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1494 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1496 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1497 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1498 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1500 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1502 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1503 previous thread in the search results.
1505 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1507 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1508 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1510 Faster search and show
1512 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1513 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1514 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1515 threads should show faster.
1519 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1520 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1521 in question was now removed from this release.
1526 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1527 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1532 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1534 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1535 ===========================
1540 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1542 Internal test framework changes
1543 -------------------------------
1545 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1546 being unimplemented.
1548 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1549 ===========================
1551 Internal test framework changes
1552 -------------------------------
1554 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1555 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1557 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1558 =========================
1563 Date range search support
1565 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1566 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1567 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1568 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1569 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1572 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1574 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1575 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1576 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1577 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1578 but may be removed in a future release.
1580 Command-Line Interface
1581 ----------------------
1583 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1585 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1586 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1588 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1590 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1591 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1592 officially deprecated.
1594 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1596 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1597 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1598 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1600 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1602 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1603 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1606 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1607 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1608 dump/restore format.
1610 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1612 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1613 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1614 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1616 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1618 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1619 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1620 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1622 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1624 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1625 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1626 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1627 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1632 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1634 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1635 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1636 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1637 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1639 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1641 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1642 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1643 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1644 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1645 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1646 the behavior of this, see
1647 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1648 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1650 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1651 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1652 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1654 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1656 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1657 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1660 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1662 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1663 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1664 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1665 simply displayed in place of the message.
1667 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1669 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1670 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1672 Improved text/calendar content handling
1674 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1675 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1676 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1677 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1679 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1681 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1682 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1683 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1684 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1686 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1688 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1689 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1690 for HTML email containing images.
1692 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1694 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1696 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1698 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1701 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1703 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1704 the point where it was.
1706 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1708 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1709 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1710 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1711 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1712 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1714 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1716 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1717 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1718 thread instead of the message id.
1720 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1721 -----------------------------
1723 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1724 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1725 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1726 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1727 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1728 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1729 further details and installation.
1734 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1736 Internal test framework changes
1737 -------------------------------
1739 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1741 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1742 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1743 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1744 can result in buggy behavior.
1746 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1747 =========================
1752 Maildir tag synchronization
1754 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1755 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1756 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1757 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1758 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1759 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1762 Command-Line Interface
1763 ----------------------
1765 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1766 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1767 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1768 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1769 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1775 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1777 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1779 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1780 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1781 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1783 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1785 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1786 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1787 span multiple lines.
1789 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1791 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1792 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1793 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1794 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1795 inside the result or message.
1797 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1799 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1800 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1802 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1803 user-specified formatting
1805 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1806 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1807 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1808 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1809 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1811 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1812 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1814 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1815 ===========================
1820 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1821 compilation error for this contrib package.
1823 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1824 ===========================
1829 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1831 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1832 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1833 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1834 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1836 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1837 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1840 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1841 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1842 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1843 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1846 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1848 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1851 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1852 =========================
1854 Command-Line Interface
1855 ----------------------
1859 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1860 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1861 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1862 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1864 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1865 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1866 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1867 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1871 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1872 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1874 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1875 tag in your query, for example:
1877 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1879 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1880 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1882 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1883 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1885 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1887 Raw show format changes
1889 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1890 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1891 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1892 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1893 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1894 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1895 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1896 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1898 Listing configuration items
1900 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1906 Changes to tagging interface
1908 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1909 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1910 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1911 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1912 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1913 for more information.
1915 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1916 may need to update in custom configurations.
1918 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1920 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1921 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1922 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1923 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1926 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1927 -----------------------------
1929 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1930 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1931 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1932 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1933 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1934 contrib/ from now on.
1939 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1940 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1942 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1943 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1945 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1946 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1947 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1949 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1950 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1952 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1953 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1954 returning the new database object or directory object.
1961 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1962 compatible with go 1.
1964 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1965 =========================
1967 Command-Line Interface
1968 ----------------------
1972 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1973 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1974 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1975 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1977 Mail store folder/file ignore
1979 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1980 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1981 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1983 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1984 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1986 Unified help and manual pages
1988 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1989 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1992 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1994 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1995 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2003 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2004 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2005 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2006 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2008 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2010 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2011 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2013 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2016 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2017 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2018 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2020 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2022 should be changed to:
2024 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2026 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2028 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2029 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2031 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2033 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2034 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2035 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2036 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2037 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2038 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2042 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2043 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2044 of Mailing List Archives.
2046 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2048 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2049 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2052 Show view archiving key binding changes
2054 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2055 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2056 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2057 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2058 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2061 Support text/calendar MIME type
2063 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2066 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2068 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2069 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2070 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2071 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2073 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2075 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2076 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2077 messages blue by default in the search view.
2081 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2082 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2089 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2092 Python bindings changes
2093 -----------------------
2095 Python 3.2 compatibility
2097 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2099 Added missing unicode conversions
2101 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2102 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2103 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2108 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2110 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2111 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2112 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2113 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2114 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2116 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2117 ===========================
2122 Fix error handling in python bindings
2124 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2125 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2126 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2127 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2129 Quote MML tags in replies
2131 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2132 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2133 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2134 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2135 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2136 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2137 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2138 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2140 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2141 =========================
2143 Command-Line Interface
2144 ----------------------
2148 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2149 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2150 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2151 importing new messages into the database.
2153 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2155 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2156 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2157 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2162 Automatic tag query optimization
2164 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2165 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2166 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2168 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2170 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2171 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2172 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2177 Reduction of memory leaks
2179 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2180 and fixed in this release.
2187 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2188 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2189 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2192 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2194 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2195 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2196 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2199 Improvements in saved search management
2201 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2202 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2203 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2205 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2207 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2208 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2209 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2211 New face for crypto parts headers
2213 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2214 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2215 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2218 Use space as default thousands separator
2220 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2221 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2222 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2224 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2225 buttonized id: links
2227 New function notmuch-show-advance
2229 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2230 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2231 be bound to SPC with:
2233 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2235 Various performance improvements
2240 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2241 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2244 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2245 ===========================
2250 Fix crash in python bindings
2252 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2253 for some, but not all users.
2255 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2256 ===========================
2261 Fix `--help` argument
2263 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2264 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2265 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2267 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2268 =========================
2270 New build and testing features
2271 ------------------------------
2273 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2274 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2275 prerequisites is improved.
2277 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2279 New command-line features
2280 -------------------------
2282 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2284 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2285 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2288 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2290 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2291 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2292 favour of using stdout.
2294 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2296 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2297 limit the number of results shown.
2299 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2301 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2302 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2305 New emacs UI features
2306 ---------------------
2308 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2310 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2311 starting with "tag:".
2313 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2315 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2316 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2318 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2320 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2322 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2324 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2325 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2330 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2332 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2334 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2335 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2336 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2337 requires a database rebuild:
2339 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2340 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2342 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2344 New collection of add-on tools
2345 ------------------------------
2347 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2348 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2349 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2352 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2354 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2355 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2356 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2358 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2359 ========================
2361 New, general features
2362 ---------------------
2364 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2366 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2367 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2368 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2369 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2370 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2377 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2378 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2380 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2384 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2385 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2386 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2389 Python bindings changes
2390 -----------------------
2392 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2394 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2395 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2396 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2397 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2398 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2399 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2401 Ruby bindings changes
2402 ---------------------
2404 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2405 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2406 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2407 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2412 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2414 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2415 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2417 Reply formatting cleanup
2418 ------------------------
2420 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2421 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2423 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2424 ========================
2426 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2428 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2429 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2430 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2431 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2434 Improved Build system portability
2436 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2437 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2438 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2440 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2442 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2444 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2446 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2447 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2448 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2450 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2451 ========================
2453 Vim interface improvements
2454 --------------------------
2456 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2458 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2459 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2460 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2461 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2462 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2464 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2466 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2467 * fix compose temp file name
2469 Python Bindings changes
2470 -----------------------
2472 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2474 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2475 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2477 Build-System improvements
2478 -------------------------
2480 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2482 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2485 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2486 ==========================
2491 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2493 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2494 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2496 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2497 =======================
2499 New, general features
2500 ---------------------
2502 Folder-based searching
2504 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2505 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2506 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2510 For example, one might use things such as:
2516 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2517 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2519 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2520 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2521 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2522 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2524 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2525 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2526 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2529 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2530 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2532 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2534 Support for PGP/MIME
2536 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2537 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2538 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2540 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2542 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2543 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2545 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2546 notmuch will receive these tags.
2548 New command-line features
2549 -------------------------
2551 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2553 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2554 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2556 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2558 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2559 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2560 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2562 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2564 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2565 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2566 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2567 which parts a signature part applies).
2569 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2571 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2572 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2573 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2574 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2575 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2578 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2580 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2581 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2582 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2583 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2584 by translating it internally to the new call.
2586 Performance improvements
2587 ------------------------
2589 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2591 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2592 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2593 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2595 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2596 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2598 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2600 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2601 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2602 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2604 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2605 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2606 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2607 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2609 Faster initial indexing
2611 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2612 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2613 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2615 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2617 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2618 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2619 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2620 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2622 New emacs-interface features
2623 ----------------------------
2625 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2627 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2628 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2629 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2630 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2631 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2632 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2634 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2636 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2637 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2638 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2639 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2641 User-selectable From address
2643 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2644 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2645 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2646 will prompt for the from address to use.
2648 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2649 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2650 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2652 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2653 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2654 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2657 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2659 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2660 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2662 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2664 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2666 ----- Original Message -----
2668 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2669 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2670 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2671 citations work much like conventional citations.
2673 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2675 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2676 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2677 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2678 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2679 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2681 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2682 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2684 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2686 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2687 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2688 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2690 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2692 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2693 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2694 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2695 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2696 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2698 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2700 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2703 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2705 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2707 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2709 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2712 Vim interface improvements
2713 --------------------------
2715 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2717 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2718 * Implementing archive in show view
2719 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2720 * Add delete commands
2723 Bindings improvements
2724 ---------------------
2726 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2728 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2729 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2731 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2733 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2737 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2738 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2739 `list(Messages)` works now
2740 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2742 These allow, for example:
2744 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2746 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2748 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2754 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2756 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2759 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2761 New build-system features
2762 -------------------------
2764 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2766 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2767 the configure script from some other directory:
2774 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2776 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2777 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2778 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2779 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2780 manual invocation of configure.
2782 New test-suite feature
2783 ----------------------
2785 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2787 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2788 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2789 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2790 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2791 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2794 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2796 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2797 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2798 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2799 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2800 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2801 are updated to take advantage of this.
2803 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2805 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2806 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2807 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2808 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2814 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2816 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2817 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2818 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2820 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2822 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2824 to:user@elsewhere.com
2826 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2828 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2830 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2832 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2833 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2834 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2837 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2838 from the Received headers in some cases
2840 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2841 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2843 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2845 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2847 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2849 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2850 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2851 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2853 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2854 -------------------------
2856 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2858 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2859 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2860 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2862 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2864 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2865 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2866 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2869 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2871 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2872 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2873 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2874 fixed to avoid this bug.
2876 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2878 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2879 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2881 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2882 ========================
2884 New, general features
2885 ---------------------
2887 Maildir-flag synchronization
2889 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2890 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2899 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2901 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2902 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2903 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2904 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2906 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2907 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2908 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2909 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2912 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2914 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2915 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2916 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2918 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2919 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2921 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2922 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2924 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2925 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2926 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2928 New library features
2929 --------------------
2931 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2933 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2934 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2935 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2936 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2938 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2939 message with the new function:
2941 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2943 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2944 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2945 over all available filenames for a given message.
2947 New command-line features
2948 -------------------------
2950 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2952 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2953 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2954 access to the mail store itself.
2956 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2957 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2958 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2959 name of a script containing:
2961 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2963 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2964 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2970 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2972 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2974 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2976 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2977 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2978 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2979 now produces nothing).
2981 Emacs interface improvements
2982 ----------------------------
2984 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2986 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2988 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2990 Display current thread subject in a header line
2992 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2994 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2996 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2997 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2998 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2999 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3000 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3001 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3002 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3004 Vim interface improvements
3005 --------------------------
3007 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3009 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3010 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3016 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3018 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3019 ========================
3021 New command-line features
3022 -------------------------
3024 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3026 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3027 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3028 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3030 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3031 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3032 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3033 scripts. For example:
3035 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3036 <operations-on> "$file"
3039 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3041 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3042 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3043 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3044 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3045 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3046 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3048 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3050 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3051 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3052 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3053 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3055 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3057 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3058 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3059 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3060 default rather than Bcc.
3062 New library features
3063 --------------------
3065 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3067 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3068 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3073 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3075 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3076 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3077 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3078 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3079 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3080 notmuch customize interface.
3082 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3084 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3085 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3086 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3087 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3089 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3091 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3092 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3093 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3094 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3096 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3098 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3099 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3100 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3101 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3102 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3103 notmuch customize interface.
3105 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3107 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3108 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3109 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3110 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3111 notmuch customize interface.
3113 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3115 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3116 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3117 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3118 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3121 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3123 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3124 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3125 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3128 New build-system features
3129 -------------------------
3131 Various portability fixes have been applied
3133 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3134 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3135 more portable than ever before.
3137 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3139 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3140 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3141 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3143 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3144 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3145 automatically run ldconfig.
3147 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3148 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3149 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3151 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3152 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3153 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3154 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3156 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3158 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3159 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3160 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3161 used in the resulting Makefile.
3163 New test-suite features
3164 -----------------------
3166 New modularization of test suite
3168 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3169 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3170 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3171 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3172 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3173 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3174 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3175 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3177 New testing of emacs interface
3179 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3180 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3181 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3182 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3183 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3184 database via the FCC setting.
3189 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3191 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3192 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3193 persistent error of the form:
3195 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3197 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3198 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3200 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3202 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3203 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3204 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3206 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3208 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3209 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3210 parsing the notmuch results).
3212 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3214 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3217 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3218 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3219 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3224 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3226 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3227 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3228 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3229 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3230 the emacs interface.
3232 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3234 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3235 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3236 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3238 Python-binding fixes
3239 --------------------
3241 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3243 Debian-specific fixes
3244 ---------------------
3246 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3248 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3249 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3250 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3253 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3254 ==========================
3259 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3261 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3262 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3263 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3264 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3266 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3268 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3269 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3270 want notmuch to crash.
3275 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3277 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3278 directory does not exist
3283 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3285 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3286 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3288 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3289 ========================
3291 New command-line features
3292 -------------------------
3294 User-configurable tags for new messages
3296 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3297 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3298 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3299 to specify this value.
3301 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3303 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3304 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3305 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3307 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3309 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3310 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3312 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3314 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3315 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3316 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3317 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3318 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3321 Indication of author names that match a search
3323 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3324 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3325 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3326 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3327 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3328 messages in the thread are listed first.
3330 New: Python bindings
3331 --------------------
3333 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3334 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3335 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3336 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3338 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3339 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3340 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3343 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3344 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3345 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3347 Emacs interface improvements
3348 ----------------------------
3350 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3352 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3353 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3354 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3355 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3356 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3357 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3358 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3359 but without any of the disadvantages).
3361 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3362 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3363 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3366 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3367 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3368 instead running something like:
3370 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3372 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3373 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3374 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3377 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3379 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3380 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3381 tweaked by the user.
3383 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3384 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3385 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3388 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3389 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3390 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3393 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3395 This support currently relies on an external program,
3396 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3397 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3398 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3399 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3400 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3403 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3404 notmuch) is available via:
3406 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3408 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3409 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3410 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3412 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3414 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3415 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3416 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3417 making this automatic in a future release.
3419 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3421 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3422 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3423 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3424 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3425 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3426 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3429 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3431 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3432 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3433 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3435 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3437 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3438 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3439 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3441 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3442 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3443 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3444 other representation.
3446 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3447 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3450 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3452 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3453 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3454 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3456 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3457 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3458 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3460 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3462 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3463 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3464 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3465 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3466 to display the search result.
3468 More flexible handling of header visibility
3470 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3471 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3472 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3473 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3474 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3475 with the 'h' keybinding.
3477 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3478 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3479 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3481 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3483 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3485 Customizable formatting of search results
3487 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3488 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3489 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3491 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3493 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3495 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3500 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3502 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3503 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3504 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3505 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3511 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3513 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3514 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3516 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3518 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3519 accept are now all accepted.
3524 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3526 Better display of output from failed tests
3528 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3529 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3531 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3532 ========================
3534 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3535 detailed release notes this time!
3537 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3538 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3540 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3541 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3542 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3543 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3550 Better guessing of From: header
3552 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3553 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3554 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3555 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3556 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3559 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3561 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3562 guaranteed to match all messages.
3564 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3566 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3567 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3568 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3569 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3570 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3573 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3576 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3577 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3578 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3579 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3584 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3586 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3587 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3588 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3589 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3591 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3593 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3595 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3596 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3597 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3599 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3601 Previously, the user might see:
3603 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3607 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3609 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3610 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3611 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3612 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3614 Emacs client features
3615 ---------------------
3617 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3619 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3620 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3621 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3622 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3623 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3625 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3628 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3629 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3630 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3631 search with the '*' binding.
3633 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3635 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3636 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3639 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3641 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3642 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3643 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3645 Build-system features
3646 ---------------------
3648 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3650 Add support to configure for many standard options
3652 We include actual support for:
3654 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3656 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3658 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3659 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3661 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3662 separate "make install-emacs"
3664 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3666 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3667 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3668 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3670 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3673 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3674 ========================
3676 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3678 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3679 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3681 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3682 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3683 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3684 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3685 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3686 tags from messages in a thread.
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