-Notmuch 0.12 (2012-xx-xx)
+Notmuch 0.18~rc0 (2014-04-22)
+=============================
+
+General
+-------
+
+The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
+
+ The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
+ by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. The new
+ behaviour allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, and
+ should lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users
+ are advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
+ details, and review how the change affects their existing `folder:`
+ searches.
+
+There is a new `path:` search prefix.
+
+ The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
+ `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
+ directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
+ special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
+ details.
+
+Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
+
+ The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
+ of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
+ done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
+ is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
+ upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
+ Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
+ `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
+
+Library changes
+---------------
+
+Notmuch database upgrade
+
+ The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
+ properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
+ `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
+ `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
+ case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
+ released version of Notmuch before now.
+
+Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
+
+ There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
+ multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
+ been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
+ dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
+
+Message header parsing changes
+
+ Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
+ parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
+ the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
+ mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
+ interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
+ slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
+
+Command-Line Interface
+----------------------
+
+`notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
+
+ The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
+
+`notmuch new` has a --quiet option
+
+ This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
+
+Emacs Interface
+---------------
+
+Init file
+
+ If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
+ `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
+ `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
+ configuration/customization items there instead of filling
+ `~/.emacs` with these.
+
+Changed format for saved searches
+
+ The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
+ saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
+ search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
+ store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
+ shows.
+
+ The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
+ through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
+ mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
+ `notmuch-saved-searches`.
+
+ IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
+ previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
+ fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
+
+ If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
+ alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
+ modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
+ saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
+ (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
+
+The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
+
+ Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
+ `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
+ contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
+
+Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
+
+ Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
+ some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
+ this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
+ message had been unread).
+
+ The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
+ deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
+ are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
+ tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
+
+ The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
+ `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
+ `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
+
+ Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
+ `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
+ behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
+ to tags already present.
+
+Version variable
+
+ The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
+ to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
+ The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
+ window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
+ these differ from each other.
+ This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
+
+Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
+
+ `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
+ it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
+ for these Emacs versions.
+
+Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
+
+ Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
+ newlines before calling notmuch count.
+
+Bug fixes for sender identities
+
+ Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
+ and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
+ configured in `notmuch-identities`.
+
+Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
+
+ In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
+ the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
+ encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
+ likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
+
+nmbug
+-----
+
+nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
+uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
+
+ The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
+ branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
+ repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
+ remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
+
+ 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
+ nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
+ repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
+ 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
+ 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
+
+ nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
+
+ 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
+ repository and fetch them into the new repository.
+
+Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
+=========================
+
+Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
+---------------------------------------
+
+Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
+computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
+with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
+message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
+and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
+strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
+before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
+like:
+
+ notmuch dump | \
+ awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
+ {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
+
+Command-Line Interface
+----------------------
+
+New options to better support handling duplicate messages
+
+ If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
+ `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
+ `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
+ print for each message.
+
+ `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
+ number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
+ bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
+ (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
+
+Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
+
+ `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
+ which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
+ mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
+
+`notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
+
+ Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
+ body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
+ RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
+ message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
+
+`notmuch compact` command
+
+ The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
+ functionality through a more convenient interface than
+ `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
+ temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
+ move the compacted database into place.
+
+Emacs Interface
+---------------
+
+`notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
+
+ `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
+ interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
+ structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
+ Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
+ amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
+ and multiple threads.
+
+ Using `notmuch-tree`
+
+ The main key entries to notmuch tree are
+
+ 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
+ search, show and tree mode itself)
+
+ 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
+ and show)
+
+ Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
+ notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
+
+ Customising `notmuch-tree`
+
+ `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
+ significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
+ behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
+ default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
+ the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
+ whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
+ in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
+
+Tagging threads in search is now race-free
+
+ Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
+ buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
+ performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
+ never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
+ thread when the search was performed.
+
+`notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
+
+ The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
+ regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
+ refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
+
+Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
+
+ When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
+ indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
+ message", etc).
+
+Built-in help improvements
+
+ Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
+ `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
+ `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
+
+Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
+
+ We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
+ rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
+ to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
+
+Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
+
+ All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
+ `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
+
+Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
+
+ Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
+ the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
+ notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
+ to move some of them to the common keymap.
+
+The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
+
+ For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
+ API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
+ changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
+ no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
+
+Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
+
+ On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
+ primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
+ cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
+
+Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
+
+ In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
+ interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
+ the wrong action. This has been fixed.
+
+Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
+
+ In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
+ appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
+ produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
+ setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
+ viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
+
+Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
+
+ By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
+ after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
+ section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
+ the body part of the message.
+
+Vim Interface
+-------------
+
+ It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
+ opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
+ going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
+
+Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
+=========================
+
+Command-Line Interface
+----------------------
+
+Support for delivering messages to Maildir
+
+ There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
+ folder and notmuch index.
+
+`notmuch count --batch` option
+
+ `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
+ tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
+
+`notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
+
+ `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
+ from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
+ resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
+ messages.
+
+Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
+
+ Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
+ worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
+ code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
+ possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
+ configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
+ everywhere.
+
+Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
+
+ The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
+ symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
+
+Top level option to specify configuration file
+
+ It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
+ command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
+
+Bash command-line completion
+
+ The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
+ been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
+ commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
+ search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
+ use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
+ "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
+ prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
+ `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
+ bash-completion package.
+
+Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
+
+Emacs Interface
+---------------
+
+New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
+
+ The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
+ with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
+ point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
+ restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
+ part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
+ bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
+ there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
+ show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
+
+Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
+
+ Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
+ of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
+ This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
+
+Key bindings for next/previous thread
+
+ Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
+ previous thread in the search results.
+
+Better handling of errors in search buffers
+
+ Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
+ now reports errors in the minibuffer.
+
+Faster search and show
+
+ Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
+ efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
+ result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
+ threads should show faster.
+
+No Emacs 22 support
+
+ The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
+ period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
+ in question was now removed from this release.
+
+Vim Front-End
+-------------
+
+The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
+bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
+
+Python Bindings
+---------------
+
+Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
+
+Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
+===========================
+
+Build fixes
+-----------
+
+Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
+
+Internal test framework changes
+-------------------------------
+
+Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
+being unimplemented.
+
+Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
+===========================
+
+Internal test framework changes
+-------------------------------
+
+Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
+build failures in non-interactive environments.
+
+Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
+=========================
+
+General
+-------
+
+Date range search support
+
+ The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
+ to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
+ header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
+ supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
+ `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
+ for details.
+
+Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
+
+ Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
+ (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
+ no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
+ tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
+ but may be removed in a future release.
+
+Command-Line Interface
+----------------------
+
+`notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
+
+ `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
+ message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
+
+Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
+
+ For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
+ containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
+ officially deprecated.
+
+Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
+
+ `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
+ ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
+ broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
+
+New dump/restore format and tagging interface
+
+ There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
+ robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
+ whitespace.
+
+ `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
+ queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
+ dump/restore format.
+
+Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
+
+ The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
+ For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
+ when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
+
+CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
+
+ `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
+ `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
+ structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
+
+`notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
+
+ The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
+ output separated by null characters rather than newline
+ characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
+ together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
+
+Emacs Interface
+---------------
+
+Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
+
+ `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
+ searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
+ has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
+ `notmuch-saved-searches`.
+
+Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
+
+ Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
+ using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
+ by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
+ plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
+ but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
+ the behavior of this, see
+ `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
+ `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
+
+ Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
+ all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
+ they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
+
+Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
+
+ mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
+ (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
+ notmuch search.
+
+Handle errors from bodypart insertions
+
+ If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
+ the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
+ off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
+ simply displayed in place of the message.
+
+Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
+
+ Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
+ the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
+
+Improved text/calendar content handling
+
+ Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
+ of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
+ to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
+ is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
+
+Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
+
+ Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
+ data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
+ corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
+ `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
+
+Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
+
+ Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
+ but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
+ for HTML email containing images.
+
+Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
+
+ Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
+
+Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
+
+ Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
+ quoted.
+
+`notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
+
+ Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
+ the point where it was.
+
+Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
+
+ All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
+ reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
+ customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
+ through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
+ `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
+
+Support for stashing the thread id in show view
+
+ Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
+ stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
+ thread instead of the message id.
+
+New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
+-----------------------------
+
+The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
+view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
+and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
+(similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
+terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
+threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
+further details and installation.
+
+Portability
+-----------
+
+notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
+
+Internal test framework changes
+-------------------------------
+
+The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
+
+ The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
+ `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
+ necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
+ can result in buggy behavior.
+
+Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
+=========================
+
+General bug fixes
+-----------------
+
+Maildir tag synchronization
+
+ Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
+ maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
+ message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
+ incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
+ same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
+ messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
+ tag).
+
+Command-Line Interface
+----------------------
+
+ The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
+ been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
+ argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
+ option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
+ of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
+ notmuch commands.
+
+Emacs Interface
+---------------
+
+Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
+
+The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
+
+ Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
+ `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
+ search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
+
+Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
+
+ It is now possible to embed newlines in
+ `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
+ span multiple lines.
+
+Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
+
+ All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
+ move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
+ change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
+ move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
+ inside the result or message.
+
+Search now uses the JSON format internally
+
+ This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
+ subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
+
+The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
+user-specified formatting
+
+ Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
+ before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
+ no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
+ you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
+ format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
+
+The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
+now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
+
+Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
+===========================
+
+Bug-fix release
+---------------
+
+Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
+compilation error for this contrib package.
+
+Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
+===========================
+
+Bug-fix release
+---------------
+
+Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
+
+ While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
+ parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
+ HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
+ non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
+
+`notmuch_database_get_directory` and
+`notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
+databases
+
+ Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
+ that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
+ read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
+ and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
+ as documented.
+
+Fix compilation of ruby bindings
+
+ Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
+ not work well.
+
+Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
+=========================
+
+Command-Line Interface
+----------------------
+
+JSON reply format
+
+ `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
+ for a reply message and full information about the original message
+ begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
+ For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
+
+ Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
+ only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
+ multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
+ retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
+
+Tag exclusion
+
+ Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
+ to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
+
+ This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
+ tag in your query, for example:
+
+ notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
+
+ Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
+ the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
+
+ For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
+ tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
+
+ notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
+
+Raw show format changes
+
+ The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
+ message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
+ headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
+ faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
+ part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
+ not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
+ encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
+ parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
+
+Listing configuration items
+
+ The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
+ their values.
+
+Emacs Interface
+---------------
+
+Changes to tagging interface
+
+ The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
+ normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
+ notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
+ show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
+ or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
+ for more information.
+
+ NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
+ may need to update in custom configurations.
+
+Reply improvement using the JSON format
+
+ Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
+ the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
+ message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
+ reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
+ available.
+
+New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
+-----------------------------
+
+The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
+the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
+search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
+leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
+`mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
+contrib/ from now on.
+
+Library changes
+---------------
+
+The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
+so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
+
+The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
+`notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
+
+ This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
+ database and thus release the lock associated with it without
+ destroying the data structures obtained from it.
+
+`notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
+`notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
+
+ The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
+ functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
+ returning the new database object or directory object.
+
+Go bindings changes
+-------------------
+
+Go 1 compatibility
+
+ The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
+ compatible with go 1.
+
+Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
=========================
Command-Line Interface
Reply to sender
- "notmuch reply" has gained the ability to create a reply template
+ `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
- --reply-to=(all|sender).
+ `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
Mail store folder/file ignore
- A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
- ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
- searched for messages by "notmuch new".
+ A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
+ ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
+ searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
+
+ NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
+ be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
+
+Unified help and manual pages
- NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
- be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
+ The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
+ you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
+ MANPATH.
+
+Manual page for notmuch configuration options
+
+ The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
+ notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
+ itself.
Emacs Interface
---------------
More flexible and consistent tagging operations
- All tagging operations ("+", "-", "*") now accept multiple tags with
- "+" or "-" prefix, like "*" operation in notmuch-search view before.
+ All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
+ '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
- "*" operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all') is now available in
+ '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
notmuch-show view.
- `Notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag' functions no longer accept tag
- argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message' should be used instead. Custom
+ `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
+ argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
- (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
+ (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
should be changed to:
- (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
+ (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
- opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., C-u =.
+ opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
New functions
- `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}' allow stashing and
+ `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
of Mailing List Archives.
Fix MML tag quoting in replies
The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
- inserted in `message-setup-hook'. Quoting is now limited to the
+ inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
cited message.
Show view archiving key binding changes
The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
text/x-vcalendar.
+Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
+
+ Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
+ fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
+ 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
+ Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
+
+Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
+
+ Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
+ for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
+ messages blue by default in the search view.
+
+Printing Support
+
+ notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
+ default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
+
Library changes
---------------
New functions
- notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude supports the new tag exclusion
+ `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
feature.
Python bindings changes
Compatibility with GMime 2.6
It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
- However, a bug in current GMime 2.6 causes notmuch not to report
- signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug 668085).
+ However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
+ report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
+ 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
+ headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
===========================
-Bug-fix release.
-----------------
+Bug-fix release
+---------------
-Fix error handling in python bindings.
+Fix error handling in python bindings
The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
Hooks
Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
- invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, "notmuch new"
- supports "pre-new" and "post-new" hooks that are run before and after
+ invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
+ supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
importing new messages into the database.
-notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix
+`notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
- The "notmuch reply" command with --decrypt argument had a rarely
+ The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
sometimes. This is now fixed.
Automatic tag query optimization
- "notmuch tag" now automatically optimizes the user's query to
+ `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
- example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
+ example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
Memory Management
-----------------
should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
This is now fixed.
-Support "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
+Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
- It's now possible to use "notmuch new" as a notmuch-poll-script
+ It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
- advantage of the "notmuch new" hooks from emacs without intermediate
+ advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
scripts.
Improvements in saved search management
changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
-buttonized id: links.
+buttonized id: links
New function notmuch-show-advance
less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
be bound to SPC with:
- (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
+ (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
-Various performance improvements.
+Various performance improvements
New add-on tool
---------------
-The tool contrib/notmuch-deliver helps with initial delivery and
-tagging of mail (replacing running notmuch new).
+The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
+tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
===========================
-Bug-fix release.
-----------------
+Bug-fix release
+---------------
-Fix crash in python bindings.
+Fix crash in python bindings
- The python bindings did not call g_type_init, which caused crashes
+ The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
for some, but not all users.
Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
===========================
-Bug-fix release.
-----------------
+Bug-fix release
+---------------
-Fix --help argument
+Fix `--help` argument
- Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where "notmuch
- --help" crashed while "notmuch help" worked fine. This is fixed in
- 0.10.1.
+ Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
+ `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
+ This is fixed in 0.10.1.
Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
=========================
New build and testing features
------------------------------
-Emacs tests are now done in dtach. This means that dtach is now
+Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
prerequisites is improved.
New command-line features
-------------------------
-Add "notmuch restore --accumulate" option
+Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
- The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
- applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from
- the dump file.
+ The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
+ be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
+ from the dump file.
-Add search terms to "notmuch dump"
+Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
favour of using stdout.
-Add "notmuch search" --offset and --limit options
+Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
- The search command now takes options --offset=[-]N and --limit=N to limit
- the number of results shown.
+ The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
+ limit the number of results shown.
-Add "notmuch count --output" option
+Add `notmuch count --output` option
The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
- messages. This is selected using the new --output=(threads|messages) option.
+ messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
+ option.
New emacs UI features
---------------------
-Add tab-completion for notmuch-search and notmuch-search-filter
+Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
These functions now support completion tags for query parts
starting with "tag:".
Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
-Do not query on notmuch-search exit
+Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
requires a database rebuild:
- notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
- # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
- notmuch new
- notmuch restore notmuch.dump
+ notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
+ # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
+ notmuch new
+ notmuch restore notmuch.dump
New collection of add-on tools
------------------------------
New, general features
---------------------
-Correct handling of interruptions during "notmuch new"
+Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
- "notmuch new" now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
+ `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
New functions
- notmuch_database_begin_atomic and notmuch_database_end_atomic allow
- multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
+ `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
+ allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
- notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename does exactly what it says.
+ `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
API changes
- notmuch_database_find_message (and n_d_f_m_by_filename) now return
+ `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
libnotmuch.so.2
- Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
libnotmuch.
- - Support Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()
- - Support Database().find_message_by_filename()
+ - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
+ - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
- Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
- - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
+ - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
Ruby bindings changes
---------------------
- - Wrap new library functions notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.
- - Add new exception Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.
- - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
- - Update for n_d_find_message* API changes (see above).
+ - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
+ - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
+ - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
+ - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
Emacs improvements
------------------
* Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
signing key.
- * Add notmuch-show-refresh-view function (and corresponding binding)
+ * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
Reply formatting cleanup
------------------------
- "notmuch reply" no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
+ `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
MIME parts are being suppressed.
Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
- PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
- - Remove Tags.__len__ ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
+ - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
- Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
* query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
Build-System improvements
-------------------------
+-------------------------
Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
==========================
-Bug-fix release.
-----------------
+Bug-fix release
+---------------
-Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
+Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
people running gcc 4.4.5.
Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
=======================
+
New, general features
---------------------
+
Folder-based searching
Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
storage). The syntax is as follows:
- folder:<path>
+ folder:<path>
For example, one might use things such as:
- folder:spam
- folder:2011-*
- folder:work/todo
+ folder:spam
+ folder:2011-*
+ folder:work/todo
to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
rebuilt as follows:
- notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
- # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
- notmuch new
- notmuch restore notmuch.dump
+ notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
+ # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
+ notmuch new
+ notmuch restore notmuch.dump
Support for PGP/MIME
- Both the command line interface and the emacs-interface have new
+ Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
New command-line features
-------------------------
+
Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
formatting).
-Deprecate "notmuch search-tags", (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
+Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
Performance improvements
------------------------
+
Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
- needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command line tools.
+ needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
When a message contains a line looking something like:
- ----- Original Message -----
+ ----- Original Message -----
emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
(allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
- Notmuch Before Tag Hook
- Notmuch After Tag Hook
+ Notmuch Before Tag Hook
+ Notmuch After Tag Hook
New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
- Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
+ Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
-Cleaner display of From line in email messages (remove double quotes,
-and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of the email address).
+Cleaner display of From line in email messages
+
+ Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
+ the email address.
Vim interface improvements
--------------------------
+
Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
* Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
Bindings improvements
---------------------
+
Ruby bindings are now much more complete
- Including QUERY.sort, QUERY.to_s, MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags,
- MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags, and MESSAGE.get_filenames
+ Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
+ `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
+
+Python bindings have been updated and extended
-* Python bindings have been updated and extended
(docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
New bindings:
- - Message().get_filenames(),
- - Message().tags_to_maildir_flags(),Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()
- - list(Threads()) and list(Messages) works now
- - Message().__cmp__() and __hash__()
+ - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
+ `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
+ `list(Messages)` works now
+ - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
+
These allow, for example:
- if msg1 == msg2: ...
- As well as set arithmetic on Messages():
+ if msg1 == msg2: ...
- s1, s2= set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
- s1.union(s2)
- s2 -= s1
+ As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
+
+ s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
+ s1.union(s2)
+ s2 -= s1
Removed:
- - len(Messages()) as it exhausted the iterator.
- Use len(list(Messages())) or
- Query.count_messages() to get the length.
+
+ - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
+
+ Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
+ to get the length.
Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
New build-system features
-------------------------
+
Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
the configure script from some other directory:
- mkdir build
- cd build
- ../configure
- make
+ mkdir build
+ cd build
+ ../configure
+ make
Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
New test-suite feature
----------------------
-Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH.
+
+Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
the test suite.
-Support for testing output with a trailing newline.
+Support for testing output with a trailing newline
Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
- test_expect_equal_file rather than test_expect_equal) will detect
+ `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
are updated to take advantage of this.
General bug fixes
-----------------
+
Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
This fixed a bug where a search for:
- to:user@elsewhere.com
+ to:user@elsewhere.com
would incorrectly match a message sent:
- To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
+ To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
Fix --output=json when search has no results
return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
expected.
-fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
-from the Received headers in some cases.
+Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
+from the Received headers in some cases
Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
-sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX).
+`sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
Cleaned up several memory leaks
-Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free.
+Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
Emacs-interface bug fixes
-------------------------
+
Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
========================
+
New, general features
---------------------
+
Maildir-flag synchronization
Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
supported:
- Flag <-> Tag
- ---- -----
- 'D' draft
- 'F' flagged
- 'P' passed
- 'R' replied
- 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
+ Flag <-> Tag
+ ---- -----
+ 'D' draft
+ 'F' flagged
+ 'P' passed
+ 'R' replied
+ 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
"cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
- new maildir.synchronize_flags option in the configuration file. For
+ new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
example:
- notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
+ notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
functionality is available with the following two new functions:
- notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
- notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
+ notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
+ notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
New library features
--------------------
+
Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
- notmuch_message_get_filename).
+ `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
message with the new function:
- notmuch_message_get_filenames
+ notmuch_message_get_filenames
- Together with notmuch_filenames_valid, notmuch_filenames_get, and
- notmuch_filenames_move_to_next it is now possible to iterate over
- all available filenames for a given message.
+ Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
+ and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
+ over all available filenames for a given message.
New command-line features
-------------------------
+
New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
name of a script containing:
- ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
+ ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
General bug fixes
-----------------
+
Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
- notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
+ notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
Emacs interface improvements
----------------------------
+
Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
-Fix count of lines in hidden signatures.
+Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
-Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display.
+Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
-Display current thread subject in a header line.
+Display current thread subject in a header line
-Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view.
+Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
-Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil.
+Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
Vim interface improvements
--------------------------
-Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface.
+
+Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
New bindings
------------
+
Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
========================
+
New command-line features
-------------------------
-notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)
+
+`notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
scripts. For example:
- for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
- <operations-on> "$file"
- done
+ for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
+ <operations-on> "$file"
+ done
-notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>
+`notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
This new option allows for the messages matching a search
specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
followed by the 5 characters "From ".
-notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]
+`notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
New library features
--------------------
-Add notmuch_query_get_query_string and notmuch_query_get_sort
+
+Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
These are simply functions for querying properties of a
- notmuch_query_t object.
+ `notmuch_query_t` object.
New emacs features
------------------
+
Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
notmuch customize interface.
-Make hidden author names still available for incremental search.
+Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
New build-system features
-------------------------
+
Various portability fixes have been applied
These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
after installing. This support takes two forms:
- 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
- (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
- automatically run ldconfig.
+ 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
+ (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
+ automatically run ldconfig.
- 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
- build system adds a DR_RUNPATH entry to the final binary
- pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
+ 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
+ build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
+ pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
- variables such as LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
+ variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
Check compiler/linker options before using them
New test-suite features
-----------------------
-New modularization of test suite.
+
+New modularization of test suite
Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
-New testing of emacs interface.
+New testing of emacs interface
The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
General bug fixes
-----------------
-Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new " is interrupted.
+
+Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
persistent error of the form:
- document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
+ document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
-Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers.
+Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
parsing the notmuch results).
-Fix notmuch_query_search_threads function to return NULL on any exception
+Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
-Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if notmuch_query_search_threads fails
+Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
+fails
Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
Emacs bug fixes
---------------
+
Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
Python-binding fixes
--------------------
+
The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
Debian-specific fixes
---------------------
-Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default.
+
+Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
"apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
==========================
+
General bug fixes
-----------------
+
Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
Emacs bug fixes
---------------
-Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view.
+
+Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
-directory does not exist.
+directory does not exist
Build fix
---------
-Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block.
+
+Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
final linking of notmuch would fail.
Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
========================
+
New command-line features
-------------------------
+
User-configurable tags for new messages
A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
New: Python bindings
--------------------
+
Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
Emacs interface improvements
----------------------------
+
An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
away.
- Note: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
- immediately displaying a particular search result, we
- recommend instead running something like:
+ NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
+ immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
+ instead running something like:
- emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
+ emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
- The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
- (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
- leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
- order.
+ The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
+ (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
+ leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
+ order.
Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
notmuch) is available via:
- git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
+ git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
tag" commands.
-Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch.
+Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
-Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search.
+Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
-Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs.
+Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
-New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread.
+New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
New library feature
-------------------
-Provide a new NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED value for queries
+
+Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
Build fixes
-----------
+
Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
-Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options.
+Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
accept are now all accepted.
Test suite
----------
-A large number of new tests for the many new features.
-Better display of output from failed tests.
+A large number of new tests for the many new features
+
+Better display of output from failed tests
Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
========================
+
This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
detailed release notes this time!
General features
----------------
-Better guessing of From: header.
+
+Better guessing of From: header
Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
guaranteed to match all messages.
-Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages.
+Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
"notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
other search terms.
Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
-missing.
+missing
Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
General bug fixes
-----------------
+
Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
-Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty.
+Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
Previously, the user might see:
- Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
+ Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
rather than:
- Subject: Re: Rozlučka
+ Subject: Re: Rozlučka
The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
Emacs client features
---------------------
-Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines.
+
+Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
-tags by region.
+tags by region
Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
search with the '*' binding.
-More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers.
+More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
number to the user.
-Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags.
+Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
Build-system features
---------------------
-Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X).
-Add support to configure for many standard options.
+Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
+
+Add support to configure for many standard options
We include actual support for:
- --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
+ --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
And accept and silently ignore several more:
- --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
- --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
+ --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
+ --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
-separate "make install-emacs".
+separate "make install-emacs"
-Automatically compute versions numbers between releases.
+Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
-Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually verify
-its results.
+Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
+verify its results
Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
========================
+
This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
tags from messages in a thread.
+
+
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