1 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
2 ===========================
7 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
8 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
13 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
16 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
17 ===========================
22 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
25 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
26 =========================
31 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
33 Skip HTML tags when indexing
35 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
37 Command Line Interface
38 ----------------------
40 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
42 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
47 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
49 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
50 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
53 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
58 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
60 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
61 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
63 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
65 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
66 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
69 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
71 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
73 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
75 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
76 ===========================
78 Command Line Interface
79 ----------------------
81 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
86 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
88 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
89 ===========================
94 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
96 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
97 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
100 Command Line Interface
101 ----------------------
103 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
105 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
107 Fix bug in dump header
109 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
110 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
111 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
116 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
118 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
119 =========================
124 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
126 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
129 Command Line Interface
130 ----------------------
132 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
134 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
135 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
136 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
138 New default output format to 3
140 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
141 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
142 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
143 default format changes.
148 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
150 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
151 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
152 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
153 or tree view to resume.
155 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
156 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
157 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
160 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
161 they were when you postponed in the final message.
165 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
166 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
167 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
168 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
169 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
173 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
174 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
175 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
176 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
177 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
178 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
182 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
183 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
185 Stop display of `application/*` parts
187 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
188 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
189 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
190 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
191 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
192 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
193 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
194 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
197 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
199 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
200 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
201 only tagged the current thread.)
203 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
205 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
206 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
207 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
209 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
211 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
212 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
213 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
214 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
215 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
216 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
217 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
219 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
221 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
222 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
223 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
228 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
230 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
233 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
235 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
238 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
239 ===========================
244 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
246 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
247 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
248 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
251 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
252 ===========================
254 Command Line Interface
255 ----------------------
257 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
262 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
264 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
265 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
266 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
268 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
269 ===========================
274 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
275 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
277 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
278 ===========================
280 Command Line Interface
281 ----------------------
283 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
285 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
286 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
287 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
292 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
294 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
295 ===========================
297 Command Line Interface
298 ----------------------
300 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
305 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
307 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
308 ===========================
313 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
315 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
316 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
317 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
319 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
321 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
323 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
324 ===========================
329 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
331 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
336 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
338 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
339 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
340 the original colours.
342 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
343 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
345 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
347 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
348 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
349 bug, and hence the test.
351 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
352 =========================
354 General (Xapian 1.4+)
355 ---------------------
357 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
359 Support for single argument date: queries
361 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
363 Support for blocking opens
365 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
366 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
368 Support for named queries
370 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
371 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
372 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
379 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
380 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
381 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
382 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
384 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
386 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
391 Support for compile time options
393 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
394 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
397 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
399 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
400 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
401 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
402 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
403 scripts to ignore it.
408 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
410 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
411 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
412 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
414 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
415 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
416 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
417 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
418 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
419 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
420 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
422 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
423 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
426 Make internal address completion customizable
428 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
429 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
430 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
431 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
434 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
436 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
437 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
438 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
439 completion for the current buffer.
441 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
442 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
443 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
447 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
448 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
449 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
450 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
451 will be added instead.
453 Face customization is easier
455 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
456 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
457 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
458 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
460 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
465 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
470 Go bindings moved to contrib
472 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
474 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
476 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
477 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
479 The same issue occured with sort modes.
481 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
482 ===========================
489 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
490 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
492 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
494 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
496 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
497 ===========================
502 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
504 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
509 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
514 Use `env` to locate perl.
519 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
521 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
523 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
525 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
527 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
528 =========================
535 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
536 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
538 Limited support for S/MIME messages
540 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
541 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
542 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
547 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
548 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
549 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
551 Command Line Interface
552 ----------------------
554 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
556 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
561 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
566 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
568 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
569 parts are now included in replies.
571 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
572 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
573 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
574 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
576 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
578 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
580 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
582 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
583 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
584 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
585 forwards only the current message.
587 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
589 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
590 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
591 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
592 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
593 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
594 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
595 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
596 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
599 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
600 longer generate empty buffers
602 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
603 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
604 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
605 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
606 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
608 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
610 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
613 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
615 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
618 Address completion improvements
620 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
621 you previously configured one, customize the variable
622 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
623 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
624 interactive address completion.
626 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
628 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
629 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
630 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
635 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
636 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
637 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
643 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
644 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
645 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
646 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
647 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
648 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
650 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
651 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
652 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
653 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
654 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
655 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
657 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
658 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
660 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
661 =========================
666 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
669 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
671 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
672 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
673 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
675 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
676 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
678 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
679 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
680 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
682 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
684 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
685 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
686 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
687 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
688 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
689 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
694 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
695 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
698 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
701 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
703 Command Line Interface
704 ----------------------
706 Database revision tracking
708 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
709 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
710 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
711 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
713 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
715 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
716 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
717 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
718 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
719 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
720 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
721 manual page for further information.
726 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
728 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
729 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
731 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
733 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
734 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
735 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
737 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
739 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
741 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
742 customization as well.
744 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
746 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
748 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
750 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
752 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
753 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
754 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
755 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
757 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
759 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
760 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
761 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
762 this variable to 10000.
767 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
768 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
770 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
772 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
773 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
774 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
775 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
776 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
777 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
778 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
779 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
780 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
783 Database revision tracking
785 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
786 query parser and the new function
787 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
789 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
793 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
794 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
795 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
796 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
801 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
803 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
804 ===========================
809 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
811 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
812 ===========================
817 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
819 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
820 =========================
822 Command-Line Interface
823 ----------------------
825 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
827 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
828 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
829 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
831 Path to gpg is now configurable
833 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
834 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
839 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
841 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
846 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
851 Support messages without Message-IDs.
856 Undeprecate single message mboxes
858 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
859 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
861 New error logging facility
863 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
864 output formerly printed to stderr.
866 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
868 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
870 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
872 Fix for rounding of seconds
877 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
879 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
880 docmumentation has been removed.
882 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
884 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
885 some material from the relicensed wiki.
890 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
891 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
892 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
897 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
898 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
899 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
900 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
901 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
902 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
905 git checkout config origin/config
907 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
909 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
910 =========================
915 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
916 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
917 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
918 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
919 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
920 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
921 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
923 Command-Line Interface
924 ----------------------
926 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
928 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
929 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
930 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
931 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
932 script callers should still check the return value.
934 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
936 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
937 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
938 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
939 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
940 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
941 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
942 and returning success even if indexing fails).
944 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
946 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
947 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
948 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
950 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
952 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
953 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
954 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
955 currently unmaintained.
957 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
959 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
960 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
961 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
962 have at least `N` files associated with them.
964 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
966 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
967 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
968 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
969 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
970 count of duplicate addresses.
975 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
977 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
978 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
979 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
982 Improved handling of the unread tag
984 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
985 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
986 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
987 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
988 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
989 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
990 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
992 Expanded default saved search settings
994 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
995 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
997 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
999 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1000 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1001 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1003 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1005 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1006 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1007 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1008 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1009 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1010 the variable for details.
1015 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1017 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1018 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1019 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1020 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1022 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1024 Previously, library users were required to call
1025 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1026 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1027 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1028 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1029 too out of date for that API.
1031 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1033 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1034 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1035 atomic section will be aborted.
1037 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1038 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1040 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1042 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1043 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1044 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1045 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1046 messages into the same thread.
1051 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1052 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1053 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1054 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1055 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1056 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1061 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1062 from the config file. Use something like:
1066 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1067 "footer": "</body></html>",
1076 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1081 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1082 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1083 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1085 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1086 ===========================
1091 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1093 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1095 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1097 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1098 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1100 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1102 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1105 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1106 ===========================
1108 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1113 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1115 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1117 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1119 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1121 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1127 Use --quick when starting emacs
1129 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1131 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1133 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1135 Command-Line Interface
1136 ----------------------
1138 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1139 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1144 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1146 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1147 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1149 Fix for phrase indexing
1151 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1152 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1153 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1158 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1160 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1161 unintentionally removed.
1163 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1164 =========================
1169 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1170 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1171 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1172 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1173 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1174 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1175 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1176 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1177 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1183 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1185 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1186 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1187 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1188 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1189 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1190 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1191 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1192 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1194 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1196 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1197 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1198 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1199 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1202 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1204 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1205 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1206 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1207 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1208 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1209 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1210 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1215 Notmuch database upgrade
1217 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1218 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1219 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1220 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1221 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1222 released version of Notmuch before now.
1224 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1226 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1227 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1228 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1229 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1231 Message header parsing changes
1233 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1234 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1235 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1236 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1237 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1238 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1240 Command-Line Interface
1241 ----------------------
1243 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1245 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1247 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1249 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1251 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1253 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1254 user does not want it.
1256 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1258 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1259 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1260 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1261 support formatted output.
1263 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1265 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1266 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1267 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1275 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1276 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1277 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1278 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1279 `~/.emacs` with these.
1281 Changed format for saved searches
1283 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1284 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1285 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1286 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1289 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1290 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1291 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1292 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1294 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1295 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1296 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1298 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1299 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1300 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1301 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1302 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1304 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1306 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1307 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1308 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1310 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1312 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1313 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1314 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1315 message had been unread).
1317 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1318 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1319 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1320 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1322 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1323 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1324 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1326 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1327 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1328 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1329 to tags already present.
1333 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1334 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1335 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1336 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1337 these differ from each other.
1338 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1340 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1342 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1343 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1344 for these Emacs versions.
1346 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1348 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1349 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1351 Bug fixes for sender identities
1353 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1354 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1355 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1357 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1359 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1360 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1361 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1362 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1364 Reply pushes mark before signature
1366 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1367 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1368 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1370 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1372 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1373 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1379 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1380 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1382 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1383 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1384 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1385 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1387 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1388 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1389 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1390 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1391 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1393 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1395 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1396 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1398 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1399 =========================
1401 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1402 ---------------------------------------
1404 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1405 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1406 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1407 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1408 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1409 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1410 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1414 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1415 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1417 Command-Line Interface
1418 ----------------------
1420 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1422 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1423 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1424 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1425 print for each message.
1427 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1428 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1429 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1430 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1432 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1434 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1435 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1436 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1438 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1440 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1441 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1442 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1443 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1445 `notmuch compact` command
1447 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1448 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1449 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1450 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1451 move the compacted database into place.
1456 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1458 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1459 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1460 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1461 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1462 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1463 and multiple threads.
1465 Using `notmuch-tree`
1467 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1469 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1470 search, show and tree mode itself)
1472 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1475 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1476 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1478 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1480 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1481 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1482 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1483 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1484 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1485 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1486 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1488 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1490 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1491 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1492 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1493 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1494 thread when the search was performed.
1496 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1498 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1499 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1500 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1502 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1504 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1505 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1508 Built-in help improvements
1510 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1511 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1512 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1514 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1516 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1517 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1518 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1520 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1522 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1523 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1525 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1527 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1528 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1529 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1530 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1532 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1534 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1535 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1536 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1537 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1539 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1541 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1542 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1543 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1545 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1547 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1548 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1549 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1551 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1553 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1554 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1555 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1556 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1557 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1559 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1561 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1562 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1563 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1564 the body part of the message.
1569 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1570 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1571 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1573 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1574 =========================
1576 Command-Line Interface
1577 ----------------------
1579 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1581 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1582 folder and notmuch index.
1584 `notmuch count --batch` option
1586 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1587 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1589 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1591 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1592 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1593 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1596 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1598 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1599 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1600 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1601 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1602 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1605 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1607 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1608 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1610 Top level option to specify configuration file
1612 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1613 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1615 Bash command-line completion
1617 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1618 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1619 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1620 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1621 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1622 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1623 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1624 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1625 bash-completion package.
1627 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1632 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1634 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1635 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1636 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1637 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1638 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1639 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1640 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1641 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1643 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1645 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1646 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1647 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1649 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1651 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1652 previous thread in the search results.
1654 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1656 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1657 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1659 Faster search and show
1661 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1662 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1663 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1664 threads should show faster.
1668 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1669 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1670 in question was now removed from this release.
1675 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1676 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1681 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1683 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1684 ===========================
1689 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1691 Internal test framework changes
1692 -------------------------------
1694 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1695 being unimplemented.
1697 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1698 ===========================
1700 Internal test framework changes
1701 -------------------------------
1703 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1704 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1706 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1707 =========================
1712 Date range search support
1714 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1715 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1716 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1717 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1718 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1721 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1723 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1724 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1725 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1726 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1727 but may be removed in a future release.
1729 Command-Line Interface
1730 ----------------------
1732 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1734 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1735 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1737 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1739 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1740 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1741 officially deprecated.
1743 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1745 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1746 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1747 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1749 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1751 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1752 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1755 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1756 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1757 dump/restore format.
1759 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1761 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1762 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1763 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1765 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1767 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1768 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1769 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1771 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1773 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1774 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1775 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1776 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1781 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1783 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1784 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1785 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1786 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1788 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1790 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1791 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1792 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1793 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1794 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1795 the behavior of this, see
1796 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1797 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1799 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1800 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1801 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1803 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1805 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1806 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1809 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1811 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1812 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1813 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1814 simply displayed in place of the message.
1816 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1818 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1819 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1821 Improved text/calendar content handling
1823 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1824 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1825 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1826 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1828 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1830 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1831 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1832 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1833 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1835 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1837 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1838 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1839 for HTML email containing images.
1841 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1843 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1845 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1847 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1850 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1852 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1853 the point where it was.
1855 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1857 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1858 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1859 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1860 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1861 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1863 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1865 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1866 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1867 thread instead of the message id.
1869 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1870 -----------------------------
1872 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1873 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1874 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1875 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1876 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1877 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1878 further details and installation.
1883 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1885 Internal test framework changes
1886 -------------------------------
1888 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1890 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1891 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1892 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1893 can result in buggy behavior.
1895 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1896 =========================
1901 Maildir tag synchronization
1903 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1904 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1905 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1906 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1907 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1908 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1911 Command-Line Interface
1912 ----------------------
1914 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1915 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1916 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1917 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1918 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1924 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1926 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1928 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1929 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1930 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1932 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1934 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1935 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1936 span multiple lines.
1938 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1940 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1941 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1942 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1943 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1944 inside the result or message.
1946 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1948 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1949 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1951 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1952 user-specified formatting
1954 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1955 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1956 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1957 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1958 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1960 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1961 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1963 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1964 ===========================
1969 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1970 compilation error for this contrib package.
1972 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1973 ===========================
1978 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1980 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1981 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1982 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1983 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1985 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1986 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1989 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1990 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1991 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1992 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1995 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1997 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2000 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2001 =========================
2003 Command-Line Interface
2004 ----------------------
2008 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2009 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2010 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2011 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2013 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2014 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2015 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2016 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2020 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2021 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2023 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2024 tag in your query, for example:
2026 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2028 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2029 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2031 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2032 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2034 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2036 Raw show format changes
2038 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2039 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2040 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2041 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2042 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2043 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2044 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2045 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2047 Listing configuration items
2049 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2055 Changes to tagging interface
2057 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2058 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2059 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2060 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2061 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2062 for more information.
2064 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2065 may need to update in custom configurations.
2067 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2069 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2070 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2071 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2072 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2075 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2076 -----------------------------
2078 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2079 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2080 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2081 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2082 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2083 contrib/ from now on.
2088 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2089 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2091 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2092 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2094 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2095 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2096 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2098 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2099 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2101 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2102 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2103 returning the new database object or directory object.
2110 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2111 compatible with go 1.
2113 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2114 =========================
2116 Command-Line Interface
2117 ----------------------
2121 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2122 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2123 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2124 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2126 Mail store folder/file ignore
2128 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2129 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2130 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2132 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2133 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2135 Unified help and manual pages
2137 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2138 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2141 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2143 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2144 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2152 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2153 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2154 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2155 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2157 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2159 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2160 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2162 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2165 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2166 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2167 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2169 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2171 should be changed to:
2173 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2175 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2177 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2178 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2180 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2182 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2183 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2184 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2185 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2186 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2187 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2191 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2192 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2193 of Mailing List Archives.
2195 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2197 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2198 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2201 Show view archiving key binding changes
2203 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2204 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2205 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2206 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2207 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2210 Support text/calendar MIME type
2212 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2215 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2217 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2218 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2219 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2220 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2222 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2224 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2225 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2226 messages blue by default in the search view.
2230 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2231 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2238 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2241 Python bindings changes
2242 -----------------------
2244 Python 3.2 compatibility
2246 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2248 Added missing unicode conversions
2250 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2251 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2252 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2257 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2259 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2260 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2261 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2262 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2263 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2265 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2266 ===========================
2271 Fix error handling in python bindings
2273 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2274 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2275 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2276 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2278 Quote MML tags in replies
2280 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2281 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2282 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2283 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2284 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2285 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2286 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2287 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2289 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2290 =========================
2292 Command-Line Interface
2293 ----------------------
2297 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2298 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2299 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2300 importing new messages into the database.
2302 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2304 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2305 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2306 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2311 Automatic tag query optimization
2313 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2314 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2315 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2317 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2319 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2320 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2321 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2326 Reduction of memory leaks
2328 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2329 and fixed in this release.
2336 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2337 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2338 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2341 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2343 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2344 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2345 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2348 Improvements in saved search management
2350 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2351 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2352 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2354 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2356 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2357 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2358 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2360 New face for crypto parts headers
2362 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2363 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2364 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2367 Use space as default thousands separator
2369 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2370 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2371 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2373 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2374 buttonized id: links
2376 New function notmuch-show-advance
2378 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2379 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2380 be bound to SPC with:
2382 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2384 Various performance improvements
2389 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2390 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2393 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2394 ===========================
2399 Fix crash in python bindings
2401 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2402 for some, but not all users.
2404 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2405 ===========================
2410 Fix `--help` argument
2412 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2413 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2414 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2416 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2417 =========================
2419 New build and testing features
2420 ------------------------------
2422 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2423 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2424 prerequisites is improved.
2426 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2428 New command-line features
2429 -------------------------
2431 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2433 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2434 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2437 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2439 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2440 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2441 favour of using stdout.
2443 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2445 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2446 limit the number of results shown.
2448 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2450 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2451 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2454 New emacs UI features
2455 ---------------------
2457 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2459 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2460 starting with "tag:".
2462 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2464 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2465 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2467 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2469 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2471 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2473 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2474 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2479 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2481 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2483 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2484 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2485 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2486 requires a database rebuild:
2488 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2489 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2491 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2493 New collection of add-on tools
2494 ------------------------------
2496 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2497 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2498 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2501 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2503 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2504 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2505 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2507 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2508 ========================
2510 New, general features
2511 ---------------------
2513 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2515 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2516 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2517 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2518 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2519 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2526 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2527 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2529 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2533 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2534 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2535 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2538 Python bindings changes
2539 -----------------------
2541 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2543 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2544 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2545 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2546 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2547 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2548 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2550 Ruby bindings changes
2551 ---------------------
2553 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2554 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2555 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2556 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2561 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2563 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2564 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2566 Reply formatting cleanup
2567 ------------------------
2569 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2570 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2572 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2573 ========================
2575 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2577 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2578 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2579 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2580 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2583 Improved Build system portability
2585 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2586 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2587 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2589 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2591 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2593 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2595 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2596 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2597 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2599 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2600 ========================
2602 Vim interface improvements
2603 --------------------------
2605 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2607 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2608 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2609 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2610 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2611 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2613 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2615 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2616 * fix compose temp file name
2618 Python Bindings changes
2619 -----------------------
2621 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2623 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2624 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2626 Build-System improvements
2627 -------------------------
2629 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2631 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2634 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2635 ==========================
2640 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2642 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2643 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2645 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2646 =======================
2648 New, general features
2649 ---------------------
2651 Folder-based searching
2653 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2654 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2655 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2659 For example, one might use things such as:
2665 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2666 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2668 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2669 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2670 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2671 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2673 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2674 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2675 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2678 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2679 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2681 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2683 Support for PGP/MIME
2685 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2686 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2687 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2689 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2691 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2692 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2694 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2695 notmuch will receive these tags.
2697 New command-line features
2698 -------------------------
2700 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2702 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2703 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2705 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2707 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2708 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2709 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2711 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2713 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2714 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2715 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2716 which parts a signature part applies).
2718 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2720 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2721 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2722 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2723 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2724 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2727 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2729 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2730 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2731 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2732 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2733 by translating it internally to the new call.
2735 Performance improvements
2736 ------------------------
2738 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2740 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2741 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2742 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2744 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2745 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2747 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2749 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2750 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2751 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2753 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2754 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2755 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2756 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2758 Faster initial indexing
2760 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2761 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2762 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2764 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2766 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2767 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2768 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2769 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2771 New emacs-interface features
2772 ----------------------------
2774 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2776 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2777 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2778 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2779 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2780 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2781 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2783 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2785 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2786 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2787 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2788 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2790 User-selectable From address
2792 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2793 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2794 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2795 will prompt for the from address to use.
2797 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2798 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2799 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2801 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2802 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2803 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2806 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2808 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2809 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2811 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2813 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2815 ----- Original Message -----
2817 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2818 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2819 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2820 citations work much like conventional citations.
2822 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2824 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2825 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2826 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2827 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2828 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2830 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2831 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2833 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2835 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2836 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2837 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2839 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2841 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2842 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2843 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2844 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2845 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2847 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2849 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2852 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2854 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2856 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2858 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2861 Vim interface improvements
2862 --------------------------
2864 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2866 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2867 * Implementing archive in show view
2868 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2869 * Add delete commands
2872 Bindings improvements
2873 ---------------------
2875 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2877 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2878 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2880 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2882 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2886 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2887 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2888 `list(Messages)` works now
2889 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2891 These allow, for example:
2893 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2895 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2897 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2903 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2905 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2908 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2910 New build-system features
2911 -------------------------
2913 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2915 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2916 the configure script from some other directory:
2923 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2925 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2926 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2927 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2928 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2929 manual invocation of configure.
2931 New test-suite feature
2932 ----------------------
2934 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2936 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2937 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2938 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2939 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2940 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2943 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2945 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2946 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2947 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2948 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2949 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2950 are updated to take advantage of this.
2952 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2954 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2955 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2956 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2957 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2963 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2965 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2966 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2967 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2969 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2971 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2973 to:user@elsewhere.com
2975 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2977 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2979 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2981 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2982 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2983 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2986 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2987 from the Received headers in some cases
2989 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2990 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2992 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2994 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2996 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2998 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2999 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3000 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3002 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3003 -------------------------
3005 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3007 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3008 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3009 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3011 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3013 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3014 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3015 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3018 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3020 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3021 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3022 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3023 fixed to avoid this bug.
3025 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3027 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3028 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3030 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3031 ========================
3033 New, general features
3034 ---------------------
3036 Maildir-flag synchronization
3038 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3039 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3048 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3050 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3051 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3052 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3053 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3055 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3056 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3057 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3058 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3061 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3063 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3064 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3065 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3067 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3068 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3070 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3071 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3073 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3074 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3075 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3077 New library features
3078 --------------------
3080 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3082 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3083 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3084 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3085 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3087 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3088 message with the new function:
3090 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3092 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3093 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3094 over all available filenames for a given message.
3096 New command-line features
3097 -------------------------
3099 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3101 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3102 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3103 access to the mail store itself.
3105 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3106 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3107 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3108 name of a script containing:
3110 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3112 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3113 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3119 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3121 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3123 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3125 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3126 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3127 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3128 now produces nothing).
3130 Emacs interface improvements
3131 ----------------------------
3133 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3135 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3137 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3139 Display current thread subject in a header line
3141 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3143 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3145 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3146 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3147 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3148 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3149 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3150 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3151 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3153 Vim interface improvements
3154 --------------------------
3156 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3158 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3159 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3165 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3167 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3168 ========================
3170 New command-line features
3171 -------------------------
3173 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3175 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3176 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3177 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3179 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3180 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3181 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3182 scripts. For example:
3184 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3185 <operations-on> "$file"
3188 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3190 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3191 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3192 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3193 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3194 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3195 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3197 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3199 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3200 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3201 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3202 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3204 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3206 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3207 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3208 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3209 default rather than Bcc.
3211 New library features
3212 --------------------
3214 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3216 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3217 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3222 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3224 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3225 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3226 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3227 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3228 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3229 notmuch customize interface.
3231 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3233 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3234 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3235 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3236 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3238 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3240 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3241 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3242 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3243 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3245 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3247 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3248 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3249 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3250 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3251 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3252 notmuch customize interface.
3254 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3256 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3257 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3258 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3259 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3260 notmuch customize interface.
3262 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3264 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3265 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3266 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3267 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3270 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3272 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3273 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3274 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3277 New build-system features
3278 -------------------------
3280 Various portability fixes have been applied
3282 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3283 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3284 more portable than ever before.
3286 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3288 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3289 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3290 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3292 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3293 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3294 automatically run ldconfig.
3296 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3297 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3298 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3300 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3301 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3302 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3303 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3305 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3307 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3308 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3309 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3310 used in the resulting Makefile.
3312 New test-suite features
3313 -----------------------
3315 New modularization of test suite
3317 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3318 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3319 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3320 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3321 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3322 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3323 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3324 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3326 New testing of emacs interface
3328 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3329 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3330 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3331 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3332 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3333 database via the FCC setting.
3338 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3340 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3341 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3342 persistent error of the form:
3344 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3346 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3347 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3349 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3351 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3352 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3353 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3355 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3357 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3358 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3359 parsing the notmuch results).
3361 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3363 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3366 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3367 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3368 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3373 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3375 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3376 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3377 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3378 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3379 the emacs interface.
3381 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3383 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3384 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3385 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3387 Python-binding fixes
3388 --------------------
3390 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3392 Debian-specific fixes
3393 ---------------------
3395 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3397 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3398 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3399 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3402 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3403 ==========================
3408 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3410 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3411 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3412 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3413 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3415 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3417 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3418 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3419 want notmuch to crash.
3424 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3426 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3427 directory does not exist
3432 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3434 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3435 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3437 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3438 ========================
3440 New command-line features
3441 -------------------------
3443 User-configurable tags for new messages
3445 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3446 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3447 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3448 to specify this value.
3450 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3452 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3453 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3454 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3456 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3458 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3459 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3461 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3463 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3464 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3465 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3466 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3467 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3470 Indication of author names that match a search
3472 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3473 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3474 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3475 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3476 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3477 messages in the thread are listed first.
3479 New: Python bindings
3480 --------------------
3482 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3483 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3484 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3485 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3487 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3488 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3489 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3492 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3493 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3494 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3496 Emacs interface improvements
3497 ----------------------------
3499 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3501 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3502 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3503 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3504 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3505 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3506 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3507 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3508 but without any of the disadvantages).
3510 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3511 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3512 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3515 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3516 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3517 instead running something like:
3519 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3521 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3522 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3523 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3526 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3528 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3529 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3530 tweaked by the user.
3532 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3533 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3534 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3537 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3538 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3539 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3542 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3544 This support currently relies on an external program,
3545 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3546 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3547 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3548 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3549 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3552 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3553 notmuch) is available via:
3555 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3557 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3558 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3559 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3561 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3563 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3564 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3565 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3566 making this automatic in a future release.
3568 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3570 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3571 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3572 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3573 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3574 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3575 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3578 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3580 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3581 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3582 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3584 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3586 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3587 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3588 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3590 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3591 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3592 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3593 other representation.
3595 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3596 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3599 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3601 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3602 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3603 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3605 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3606 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3607 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3609 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3611 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3612 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3613 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3614 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3615 to display the search result.
3617 More flexible handling of header visibility
3619 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3620 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3621 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3622 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3623 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3624 with the 'h' keybinding.
3626 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3627 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3628 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3630 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3632 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3634 Customizable formatting of search results
3636 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3637 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3638 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3640 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3642 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3644 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3649 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3651 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3652 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3653 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3654 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3660 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3662 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3663 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3665 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3667 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3668 accept are now all accepted.
3673 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3675 Better display of output from failed tests
3677 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3678 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3680 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3681 ========================
3683 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3684 detailed release notes this time!
3686 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3687 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3689 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3690 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3691 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3692 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3699 Better guessing of From: header
3701 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3702 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3703 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3704 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3705 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3708 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3710 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3711 guaranteed to match all messages.
3713 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3715 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3716 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3717 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3718 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3719 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3722 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3725 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3726 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3727 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3728 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3733 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3735 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3736 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3737 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3738 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3740 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3742 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3744 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3745 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3746 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3748 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3750 Previously, the user might see:
3752 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3756 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3758 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3759 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3760 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3761 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3763 Emacs client features
3764 ---------------------
3766 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3768 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3769 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3770 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3771 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3772 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3774 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3777 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3778 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3779 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3780 search with the '*' binding.
3782 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3784 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3785 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3788 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3790 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3791 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3792 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3794 Build-system features
3795 ---------------------
3797 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3799 Add support to configure for many standard options
3801 We include actual support for:
3803 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3805 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3807 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3808 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3810 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3811 separate "make install-emacs"
3813 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3815 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3816 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3817 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3819 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3822 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3823 ========================
3825 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3827 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3828 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3830 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3831 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3832 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3833 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3834 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3835 tags from messages in a thread.
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