1 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
2 ===========================
7 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
8 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
9 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
11 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
12 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
13 database in a pre-new hook.
15 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
16 default worked only in "notmuch config".
21 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
22 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
24 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
25 =========================
30 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
31 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
32 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
33 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
34 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
35 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
36 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
37 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
38 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
39 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
40 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
45 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
46 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
48 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
49 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
50 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
51 - `notmuch_config_get`
53 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
54 now exposed (and generalized).
56 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
57 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
58 session has been fixed.
60 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
61 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
66 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
67 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
69 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
70 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
75 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
76 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
77 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
78 when prompting for senders.
80 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
81 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
84 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
86 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
88 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
89 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
90 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
91 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
92 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
93 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
94 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
96 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
97 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
99 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
100 you should change it to:
101 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
103 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
104 ===========================
109 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
114 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
116 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
117 ===========================
122 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
127 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
132 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
134 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
135 ===========================
140 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
141 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
143 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
144 ===========================
149 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
154 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
155 with a C++ header for some compilers.
157 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
159 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
160 =========================
165 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
166 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
167 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
169 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
171 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
173 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
175 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
178 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
180 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
181 search, show and tree mode)
183 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
186 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
189 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
190 always be newest first.
195 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
196 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
197 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
203 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
204 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
205 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
206 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
208 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
209 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
210 non-status providing versions.
212 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
213 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
215 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
216 promised in the documentation.
221 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
222 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
223 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
228 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
229 development version).
234 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
239 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
241 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
242 =========================
247 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
248 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
249 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
252 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
258 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
259 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
260 notmuch-properties(7)).
265 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
266 has protected headers (see
267 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
268 notmuch-properties(7)).
273 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
275 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
276 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
282 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
285 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
286 ===========================
291 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
293 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
298 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
300 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
301 ===========================
306 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
307 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
309 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
310 ===========================
315 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
317 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
318 =========================
323 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
324 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
327 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
328 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
329 the set of headers to be indexed.
331 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
334 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
335 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
336 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
339 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
340 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
341 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
343 Command Line Interface
344 ----------------------
346 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
349 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
351 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
352 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
353 more details about what is included there. This status includes
354 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
359 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
360 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
362 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
364 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
366 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
368 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
370 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
373 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
375 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
376 and may be removed in a future release.
378 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
384 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
386 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
387 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
392 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
393 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
394 cryptography support.
399 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
400 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
401 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
403 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
404 ===========================
406 Command line interface
407 ----------------------
409 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
410 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
412 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
413 ===========================
418 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
419 by message properties.
424 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
426 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
427 ===========================
432 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
437 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
438 now needed to build this documentation.
440 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
441 ===========================
446 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
447 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
449 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
450 =========================
457 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
458 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
459 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
460 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
461 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
464 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
466 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
467 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
468 correct encoding for such messages.
470 Command Line Interface
471 ----------------------
473 Support relative database paths
475 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
476 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
477 to $HOME of the invoking user.
482 Improve stderr handling
484 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
485 needed on e.g. macOS.
487 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
489 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
494 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
495 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
501 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
502 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
508 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
509 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
512 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
513 =========================
518 Add support for thread:{} queries
520 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
521 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
522 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
524 Command Line Interface
525 ----------------------
527 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
529 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
531 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
533 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
534 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
535 does not have to be available during message receipt.
540 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
546 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
547 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
549 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
550 ===========================
555 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
557 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
558 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
559 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
561 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
563 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
564 related abort in `notmuch show`.
566 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
567 ===========================
572 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
573 better late than never.
576 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
577 =========================
579 Command Line Interface
580 ----------------------
582 Support for re-indexing existing messages
584 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
585 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
586 change the way specific messages are indexed.
588 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
589 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
590 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
592 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
594 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
596 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
598 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
599 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
600 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
601 the setting of `new.tags`.
603 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
605 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
607 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
609 This inserts into the top level folder.
611 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
613 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
615 New option --output=address for notmuch address
617 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
619 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
621 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
622 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
623 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
625 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
630 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
632 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
633 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
634 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
635 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
636 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
637 config set index.decrypt true".
639 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
640 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
641 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
642 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
643 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
644 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
645 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
646 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
648 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
649 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
650 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
651 this feature without considering the security of your index.
656 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
658 Use make-process when available
660 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
661 notmuch command without using temporary files.
666 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
668 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
669 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
670 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
671 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
673 New functions to count files
675 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
676 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
678 New function to remove properties
680 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
681 drop all properties with a common pattern:
682 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
684 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
686 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
687 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
688 possibility of NULL was not documented.
690 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
692 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
693 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
694 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
695 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
696 operator may decide to change from message to message.
703 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
704 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
705 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
711 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
713 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
714 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
716 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
718 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
720 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
722 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
727 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
728 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
730 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
731 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
732 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
733 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
734 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
735 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
740 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
742 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
743 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
744 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
745 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
747 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
748 ===========================
753 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
754 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
757 Command Line Interface
758 ----------------------
760 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
761 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
764 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
765 ===========================
767 Command Line Interface
768 ----------------------
770 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
771 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
776 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
779 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
780 ===========================
785 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
788 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
789 =========================
794 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
796 Skip HTML tags when indexing
798 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
800 Command Line Interface
801 ----------------------
803 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
805 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
810 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
812 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
813 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
816 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
821 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
823 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
824 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
826 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
828 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
829 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
832 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
834 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
836 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
838 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
839 ===========================
841 Command Line Interface
842 ----------------------
844 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
849 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
851 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
852 ===========================
857 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
859 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
860 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
863 Command Line Interface
864 ----------------------
866 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
868 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
870 Fix bug in dump header
872 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
873 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
874 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
879 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
881 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
882 =========================
887 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
889 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
892 Command Line Interface
893 ----------------------
895 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
897 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
898 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
899 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
901 New default output format to 3
903 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
904 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
905 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
906 default format changes.
911 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
913 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
914 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
915 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
916 or tree view to resume.
918 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
919 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
920 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
923 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
924 they were when you postponed in the final message.
928 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
929 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
930 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
931 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
932 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
936 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
937 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
938 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
939 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
940 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
941 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
945 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
946 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
948 Stop display of `application/*` parts
950 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
951 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
952 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
953 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
954 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
955 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
956 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
957 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
960 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
962 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
963 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
964 only tagged the current thread.)
966 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
968 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
969 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
970 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
972 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
974 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
975 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
976 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
977 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
978 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
979 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
980 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
982 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
984 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
985 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
986 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
991 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
993 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
996 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
998 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1001 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1002 ===========================
1007 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1009 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1010 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1011 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1014 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1015 ===========================
1017 Command Line Interface
1018 ----------------------
1020 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1025 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1027 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1028 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1029 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1031 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1032 ===========================
1037 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1038 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1040 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1041 ===========================
1043 Command Line Interface
1044 ----------------------
1046 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1048 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1049 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1050 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1055 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1057 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1058 ===========================
1060 Command Line Interface
1061 ----------------------
1063 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1068 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1070 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1071 ===========================
1076 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1078 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1079 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1080 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1082 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1084 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1086 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1087 ===========================
1092 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1094 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1099 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1101 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1102 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1103 the original colours.
1105 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1106 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1108 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1110 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1111 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1112 bug, and hence the test.
1114 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1115 =========================
1117 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1118 ---------------------
1120 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1122 Support for single argument date: queries
1124 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1126 Support for blocking opens
1128 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1129 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1131 Support for named queries
1133 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1134 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1135 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1140 Message property API
1142 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1143 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1144 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1145 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1147 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1149 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1154 Support for compile time options
1156 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1157 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1160 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1162 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1163 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1164 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1165 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1166 scripts to ignore it.
1171 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1173 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1174 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1175 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1177 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1178 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1179 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1180 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1181 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1182 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1183 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1185 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1186 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1189 Make internal address completion customizable
1191 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1192 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1193 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1194 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1197 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1199 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1200 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1201 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1202 completion for the current buffer.
1204 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1205 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1206 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1210 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1211 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1212 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1213 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1214 will be added instead.
1216 Face customization is easier
1218 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1219 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1220 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1221 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1223 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1228 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1233 Go bindings moved to contrib
1235 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1237 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1239 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1240 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1242 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1244 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1245 ===========================
1252 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1253 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1255 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1257 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1259 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1260 ===========================
1265 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1267 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1272 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1277 Use `env` to locate perl.
1282 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1284 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1286 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1288 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1290 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1291 =========================
1298 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1299 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1301 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1303 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1304 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1305 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1310 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1311 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1312 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1314 Command Line Interface
1315 ----------------------
1317 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1319 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1324 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1329 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1331 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1332 parts are now included in replies.
1334 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1335 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1336 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1337 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1339 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1341 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1343 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1345 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1346 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1347 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1348 forwards only the current message.
1350 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1352 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1353 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1354 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1355 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1356 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1357 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1358 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1359 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1362 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1363 longer generate empty buffers
1365 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1366 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1367 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1368 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1369 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1371 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1373 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1376 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1378 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1381 Address completion improvements
1383 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1384 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1385 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1386 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1387 interactive address completion.
1389 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1391 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1392 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1393 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1398 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1399 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1400 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1406 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1407 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1408 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1409 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1410 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1411 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1413 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1414 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1415 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1416 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1417 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1418 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1420 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1421 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1423 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1424 =========================
1429 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1432 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1434 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1435 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1436 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1438 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1439 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1441 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1442 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1443 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1445 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1447 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1448 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1449 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1450 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1451 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1452 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1457 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1458 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1461 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1462 option to configure.
1464 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1466 Command Line Interface
1467 ----------------------
1469 Database revision tracking
1471 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1472 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1473 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1474 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1476 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1478 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1479 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1480 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1481 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1482 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1483 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1484 manual page for further information.
1489 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1491 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1492 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1494 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1496 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1497 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1498 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1500 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1502 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1504 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1505 customization as well.
1507 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1509 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1511 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1513 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1515 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1516 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1517 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1518 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1520 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1522 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1523 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1524 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1525 this variable to 10000.
1530 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1531 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1533 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1535 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1536 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1537 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1538 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1539 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1540 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1541 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1542 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1543 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1546 Database revision tracking
1548 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1549 query parser and the new function
1550 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1552 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1554 Deprecated functions
1556 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1557 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1558 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1559 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1564 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1566 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1567 ===========================
1572 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1574 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1575 ===========================
1580 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1582 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1583 =========================
1585 Command-Line Interface
1586 ----------------------
1588 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1590 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1591 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1592 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1594 Path to gpg is now configurable
1596 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1597 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1602 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1604 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1609 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1614 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1619 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1621 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1622 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1624 New error logging facility
1626 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1627 output formerly printed to stderr.
1629 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1631 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1633 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1635 Fix for rounding of seconds
1640 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1642 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1643 documentation has been removed.
1645 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1647 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1648 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1653 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1654 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1655 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1660 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1661 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1662 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1663 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1664 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1665 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1668 git checkout config origin/config
1670 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1672 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1673 =========================
1678 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1679 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1680 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1681 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1682 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1683 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1684 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1686 Command-Line Interface
1687 ----------------------
1689 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1691 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1692 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1693 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1694 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1695 script callers should still check the return value.
1697 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1699 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1700 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1701 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1702 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1703 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1704 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1705 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1707 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1709 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1710 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1711 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1713 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1715 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1716 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1717 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1718 currently unmaintained.
1720 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1722 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1723 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1724 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1725 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1727 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1729 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1730 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1731 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1732 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1733 count of duplicate addresses.
1738 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1740 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1741 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1742 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1745 Improved handling of the unread tag
1747 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1748 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1749 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1750 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1751 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1752 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1753 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1755 Expanded default saved search settings
1757 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1758 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1760 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1762 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1763 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1764 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1766 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1768 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1769 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1770 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1771 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1772 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1773 the variable for details.
1778 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1780 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1781 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1782 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1783 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1785 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1787 Previously, library users were required to call
1788 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1789 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1790 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1791 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1792 too out of date for that API.
1794 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1796 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1797 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1798 atomic section will be aborted.
1800 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1801 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1803 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1805 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1806 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1807 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1808 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1809 messages into the same thread.
1814 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1815 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1816 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1817 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1818 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1819 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1824 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1825 from the config file. Use something like:
1829 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1830 "footer": "</body></html>",
1839 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1844 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1845 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1846 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1848 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1849 ===========================
1854 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1856 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1858 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1860 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1861 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1863 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1865 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1868 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1869 ===========================
1871 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1876 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1878 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1880 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1882 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1884 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1890 Use --quick when starting emacs
1892 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1894 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1896 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1898 Command-Line Interface
1899 ----------------------
1901 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1902 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1907 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1909 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1910 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1912 Fix for phrase indexing
1914 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1915 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1916 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1921 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1923 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1924 unintentionally removed.
1926 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1927 =========================
1932 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1933 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1934 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1935 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1936 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1937 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1938 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1939 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1940 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1946 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1948 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1949 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1950 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1951 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1952 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1953 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1954 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1955 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1957 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1959 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1960 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1961 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1962 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1965 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1967 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1968 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1969 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1970 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1971 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1972 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1973 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1978 Notmuch database upgrade
1980 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1981 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1982 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1983 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1984 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1985 released version of Notmuch before now.
1987 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1989 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1990 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1991 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1992 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1994 Message header parsing changes
1996 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1997 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1998 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1999 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2000 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2001 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2003 Command-Line Interface
2004 ----------------------
2006 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2008 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2010 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2012 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2014 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2016 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2017 user does not want it.
2019 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2021 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2022 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2023 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2024 support formatted output.
2026 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2028 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2029 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2030 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2038 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2039 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2040 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2041 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2042 `~/.emacs` with these.
2044 Changed format for saved searches
2046 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2047 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2048 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2049 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2052 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2053 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2054 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2055 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2057 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2058 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2059 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2061 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2062 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2063 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2064 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2065 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2067 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2069 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2070 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2071 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2073 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2075 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2076 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2077 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2078 message had been unread).
2080 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2081 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2082 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2083 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2085 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2086 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2087 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2089 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2090 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2091 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2092 to tags already present.
2096 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2097 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2098 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2099 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2100 these differ from each other.
2101 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2103 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2105 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2106 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2107 for these Emacs versions.
2109 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2111 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2112 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2114 Bug fixes for sender identities
2116 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2117 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2118 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2120 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2122 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2123 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2124 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2125 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2127 Reply pushes mark before signature
2129 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2130 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2131 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2133 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2135 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2136 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2142 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2143 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2145 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2146 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2147 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2148 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2150 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2151 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2152 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2153 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2154 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2156 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2158 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2159 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2161 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2162 =========================
2164 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2165 ---------------------------------------
2167 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2168 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2169 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2170 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2171 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2172 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2173 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2177 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2178 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2180 Command-Line Interface
2181 ----------------------
2183 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2185 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2186 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2187 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2188 print for each message.
2190 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2191 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2192 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2193 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2195 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2197 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2198 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2199 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2201 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2203 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2204 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2205 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2206 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2208 `notmuch compact` command
2210 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2211 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2212 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2213 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2214 move the compacted database into place.
2219 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2221 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2222 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2223 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2224 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2225 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2226 and multiple threads.
2228 Using `notmuch-tree`
2230 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2232 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2233 search, show and tree mode itself)
2235 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2238 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2239 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2241 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2243 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2244 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2245 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2246 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2247 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2248 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2249 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2251 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2253 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2254 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2255 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2256 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2257 thread when the search was performed.
2259 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2261 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2262 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2263 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2265 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2267 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2268 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2271 Built-in help improvements
2273 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2274 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2275 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2277 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2279 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2280 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2281 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2283 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2285 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2286 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2288 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2290 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2291 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2292 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2293 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2295 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2297 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2298 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2299 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2300 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2302 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2304 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2305 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2306 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2308 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2310 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2311 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2312 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2314 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2316 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2317 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2318 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2319 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2320 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2322 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2324 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2325 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2326 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2327 the body part of the message.
2332 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2333 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2334 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2336 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2337 =========================
2339 Command-Line Interface
2340 ----------------------
2342 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2344 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2345 folder and notmuch index.
2347 `notmuch count --batch` option
2349 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2350 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2352 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2354 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2355 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2356 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2359 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2361 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2362 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2363 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2364 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2365 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2368 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2370 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2371 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2373 Top level option to specify configuration file
2375 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2376 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2378 Bash command-line completion
2380 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2381 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2382 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2383 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2384 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2385 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2386 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2387 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2388 bash-completion package.
2390 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2395 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2397 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2398 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2399 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2400 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2401 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2402 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2403 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2404 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2406 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2408 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2409 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2410 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2412 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2414 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2415 previous thread in the search results.
2417 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2419 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2420 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2422 Faster search and show
2424 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2425 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2426 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2427 threads should show faster.
2431 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2432 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2433 in question was now removed from this release.
2438 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2439 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2444 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2446 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2447 ===========================
2452 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2454 Internal test framework changes
2455 -------------------------------
2457 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2458 being unimplemented.
2460 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2461 ===========================
2463 Internal test framework changes
2464 -------------------------------
2466 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2467 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2469 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2470 =========================
2475 Date range search support
2477 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2478 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2479 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2480 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2481 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2484 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2486 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2487 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2488 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2489 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2490 but may be removed in a future release.
2492 Command-Line Interface
2493 ----------------------
2495 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2497 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2498 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2500 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2502 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2503 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2504 officially deprecated.
2506 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2508 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2509 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2510 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2512 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2514 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2515 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2518 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2519 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2520 dump/restore format.
2522 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2524 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2525 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2526 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2528 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2530 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2531 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2532 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2534 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2536 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2537 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2538 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2539 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2544 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2546 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2547 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2548 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2549 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2551 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2553 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2554 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2555 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2556 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2557 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2558 the behavior of this, see
2559 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2560 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2562 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2563 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2564 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2566 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2568 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2569 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2572 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2574 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2575 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2576 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2577 simply displayed in place of the message.
2579 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2581 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2582 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2584 Improved text/calendar content handling
2586 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2587 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2588 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2589 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2591 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2593 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2594 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2595 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2596 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2598 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2600 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2601 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2602 for HTML email containing images.
2604 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2606 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2608 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2610 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2613 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2615 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2616 the point where it was.
2618 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2620 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2621 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2622 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2623 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2624 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2626 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2628 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2629 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2630 thread instead of the message id.
2632 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2633 -----------------------------
2635 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2636 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2637 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2638 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2639 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2640 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2641 further details and installation.
2646 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2648 Internal test framework changes
2649 -------------------------------
2651 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2653 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2654 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2655 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2656 can result in buggy behavior.
2658 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2659 =========================
2664 Maildir tag synchronization
2666 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2667 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2668 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2669 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2670 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2671 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2674 Command-Line Interface
2675 ----------------------
2677 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2678 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2679 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2680 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2681 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2687 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2689 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2691 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2692 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2693 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2695 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2697 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2698 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2699 span multiple lines.
2701 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2703 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2704 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2705 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2706 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2707 inside the result or message.
2709 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2711 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2712 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2714 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2715 user-specified formatting
2717 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2718 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2719 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2720 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2721 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2723 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2724 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2726 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2727 ===========================
2732 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2733 compilation error for this contrib package.
2735 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2736 ===========================
2741 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2743 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2744 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2745 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2746 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2748 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2749 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2752 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2753 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2754 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2755 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2758 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2760 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2763 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2764 =========================
2766 Command-Line Interface
2767 ----------------------
2771 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2772 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2773 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2774 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2776 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2777 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2778 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2779 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2783 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2784 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2786 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2787 tag in your query, for example:
2789 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2791 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2792 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2794 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2795 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2797 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2799 Raw show format changes
2801 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2802 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2803 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2804 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2805 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2806 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2807 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2808 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2810 Listing configuration items
2812 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2818 Changes to tagging interface
2820 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2821 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2822 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2823 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2824 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2825 for more information.
2827 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2828 may need to update in custom configurations.
2830 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2832 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2833 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2834 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2835 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2838 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2839 -----------------------------
2841 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2842 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2843 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2844 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2845 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2846 contrib/ from now on.
2851 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2852 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2854 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2855 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2857 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2858 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2859 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2861 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2862 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2864 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2865 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2866 returning the new database object or directory object.
2873 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2874 compatible with go 1.
2876 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2877 =========================
2879 Command-Line Interface
2880 ----------------------
2884 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2885 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2886 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2887 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2889 Mail store folder/file ignore
2891 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2892 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2893 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2895 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2896 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2898 Unified help and manual pages
2900 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2901 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2904 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2906 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2907 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2915 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2916 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2917 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2918 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2920 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2922 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2923 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2925 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2928 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2929 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2930 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2932 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2934 should be changed to:
2936 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2938 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2940 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2941 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2943 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2945 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2946 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2947 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2948 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2949 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2950 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2954 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2955 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2956 of Mailing List Archives.
2958 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2960 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2961 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2964 Show view archiving key binding changes
2966 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2967 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2968 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2969 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2970 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2973 Support text/calendar MIME type
2975 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2978 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2980 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2981 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2982 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2983 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2985 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2987 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2988 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2989 messages blue by default in the search view.
2993 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2994 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3001 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3004 Python bindings changes
3005 -----------------------
3007 Python 3.2 compatibility
3009 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3011 Added missing unicode conversions
3013 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3014 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3015 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3020 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3022 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3023 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3024 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3025 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3026 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3028 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3029 ===========================
3034 Fix error handling in python bindings
3036 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3037 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3038 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3039 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3041 Quote MML tags in replies
3043 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3044 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3045 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3046 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3047 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3048 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3049 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3050 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3052 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3053 =========================
3055 Command-Line Interface
3056 ----------------------
3060 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3061 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3062 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3063 importing new messages into the database.
3065 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3067 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3068 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3069 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3074 Automatic tag query optimization
3076 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3077 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3078 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3080 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3082 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3083 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3084 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3089 Reduction of memory leaks
3091 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3092 and fixed in this release.
3099 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3100 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3101 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3104 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3106 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3107 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3108 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3111 Improvements in saved search management
3113 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3114 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3115 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3117 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3119 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3120 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3121 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3123 New face for crypto parts headers
3125 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3126 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3127 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3130 Use space as default thousands separator
3132 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3133 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3134 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3136 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3137 buttonized id: links
3139 New function notmuch-show-advance
3141 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3142 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3143 be bound to SPC with:
3145 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3147 Various performance improvements
3152 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3153 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3156 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3157 ===========================
3162 Fix crash in python bindings
3164 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3165 for some, but not all users.
3167 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3168 ===========================
3173 Fix `--help` argument
3175 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3176 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3177 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3179 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3180 =========================
3182 New build and testing features
3183 ------------------------------
3185 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3186 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3187 prerequisites is improved.
3189 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3191 New command-line features
3192 -------------------------
3194 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3196 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3197 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3200 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3202 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3203 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3204 favour of using stdout.
3206 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3208 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3209 limit the number of results shown.
3211 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3213 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3214 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3217 New emacs UI features
3218 ---------------------
3220 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3222 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3223 starting with "tag:".
3225 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3227 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3228 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3230 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3232 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3234 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3236 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3237 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3242 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3244 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3246 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3247 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3248 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3249 requires a database rebuild:
3251 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3252 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3254 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3256 New collection of add-on tools
3257 ------------------------------
3259 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3260 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3261 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3264 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3266 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3267 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3268 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3270 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3271 ========================
3273 New, general features
3274 ---------------------
3276 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3278 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3279 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3280 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3281 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3282 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3289 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3290 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3292 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3296 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3297 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3298 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3301 Python bindings changes
3302 -----------------------
3304 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3306 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3307 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3308 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3309 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3310 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3311 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3313 Ruby bindings changes
3314 ---------------------
3316 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3317 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3318 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3319 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3324 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3326 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3327 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3329 Reply formatting cleanup
3330 ------------------------
3332 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3333 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3335 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3336 ========================
3338 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3340 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3341 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3342 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3343 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3346 Improved Build system portability
3348 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3349 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3350 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3352 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3354 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3356 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3358 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3359 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3360 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3362 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3363 ========================
3365 Vim interface improvements
3366 --------------------------
3368 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3370 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3371 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3372 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3373 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3374 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3376 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3378 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3379 * fix compose temp file name
3381 Python Bindings changes
3382 -----------------------
3384 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3386 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3387 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3389 Build-System improvements
3390 -------------------------
3392 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3394 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3397 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3398 ==========================
3403 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3405 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3406 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3408 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3409 =======================
3411 New, general features
3412 ---------------------
3414 Folder-based searching
3416 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3417 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3418 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3422 For example, one might use things such as:
3428 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3429 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3431 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3432 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3433 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3434 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3436 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3437 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3438 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3441 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3442 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3444 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3446 Support for PGP/MIME
3448 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3449 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3450 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3452 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3454 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3455 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3457 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3458 notmuch will receive these tags.
3460 New command-line features
3461 -------------------------
3463 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3465 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3466 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3468 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3470 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3471 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3472 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3474 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3476 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3477 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3478 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3479 which parts a signature part applies).
3481 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3483 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3484 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3485 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3486 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3487 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3490 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3492 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3493 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3494 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3495 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3496 by translating it internally to the new call.
3498 Performance improvements
3499 ------------------------
3501 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3503 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3504 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3505 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3507 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3508 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3510 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3512 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3513 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3514 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3516 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3517 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3518 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3519 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3521 Faster initial indexing
3523 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3524 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3525 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3527 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3529 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3530 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3531 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3532 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3534 New emacs-interface features
3535 ----------------------------
3537 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3539 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3540 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3541 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3542 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3543 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3544 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3546 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3548 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3549 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3550 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3551 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3553 User-selectable From address
3555 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3556 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3557 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3558 will prompt for the from address to use.
3560 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3561 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3562 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3564 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3565 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3566 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3569 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3571 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3572 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3574 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3576 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3578 ----- Original Message -----
3580 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3581 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3582 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3583 citations work much like conventional citations.
3585 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3587 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3588 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3589 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3590 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3591 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3593 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3594 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3596 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3598 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3599 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3600 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3602 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3604 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3605 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3606 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3607 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3608 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3610 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3612 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3615 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3617 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3619 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3621 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3624 Vim interface improvements
3625 --------------------------
3627 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3629 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3630 * Implementing archive in show view
3631 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3632 * Add delete commands
3635 Bindings improvements
3636 ---------------------
3638 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3640 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3641 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3643 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3645 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3649 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3650 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3651 `list(Messages)` works now
3652 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3654 These allow, for example:
3656 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3658 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3660 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3666 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3668 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3671 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3673 New build-system features
3674 -------------------------
3676 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3678 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3679 the configure script from some other directory:
3686 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3688 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3689 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3690 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3691 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3692 manual invocation of configure.
3694 New test-suite feature
3695 ----------------------
3697 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3699 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3700 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3701 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3702 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3703 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3706 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3708 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3709 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3710 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3711 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3712 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3713 are updated to take advantage of this.
3715 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3717 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3718 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3719 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3720 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3726 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3728 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3729 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3730 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3732 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3734 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3736 to:user@elsewhere.com
3738 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3740 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3742 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3744 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3745 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3746 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3749 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3750 from the Received headers in some cases
3752 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3753 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3755 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3757 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3759 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3761 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3762 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3763 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3765 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3766 -------------------------
3768 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3770 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3771 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3772 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3774 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3776 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3777 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3778 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3781 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3783 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3784 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3785 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3786 fixed to avoid this bug.
3788 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3790 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3791 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3793 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3794 ========================
3796 New, general features
3797 ---------------------
3799 Maildir-flag synchronization
3801 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3802 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3811 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3813 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3814 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3815 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3816 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3818 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3819 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3820 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3821 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3824 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3826 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3827 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3828 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3830 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3831 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3833 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3834 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3836 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3837 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3838 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3840 New library features
3841 --------------------
3843 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3845 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3846 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3847 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3848 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3850 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3851 message with the new function:
3853 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3855 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3856 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3857 over all available filenames for a given message.
3859 New command-line features
3860 -------------------------
3862 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3864 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3865 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3866 access to the mail store itself.
3868 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3869 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3870 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3871 name of a script containing:
3873 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3875 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3876 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3882 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3884 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3886 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3888 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3889 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3890 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3891 now produces nothing).
3893 Emacs interface improvements
3894 ----------------------------
3896 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3898 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3900 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3902 Display current thread subject in a header line
3904 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3906 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3908 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3909 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3910 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3911 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3912 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3913 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3914 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3916 Vim interface improvements
3917 --------------------------
3919 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3921 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3922 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3928 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3930 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3931 ========================
3933 New command-line features
3934 -------------------------
3936 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3938 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3939 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3940 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3942 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3943 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3944 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3945 scripts. For example:
3947 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3948 <operations-on> "$file"
3951 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3953 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3954 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3955 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3956 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3957 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3958 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3960 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3962 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3963 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3964 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3965 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3967 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3969 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3970 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3971 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3972 default rather than Bcc.
3974 New library features
3975 --------------------
3977 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3979 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3980 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3985 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3987 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3988 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3989 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3990 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3991 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3992 notmuch customize interface.
3994 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3996 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3997 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3998 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3999 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4001 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4003 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4004 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4005 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4006 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4008 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4010 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4011 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4012 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4013 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4014 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4015 notmuch customize interface.
4017 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4019 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4020 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4021 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4022 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4023 notmuch customize interface.
4025 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4027 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4028 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4029 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4030 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4033 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4035 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4036 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4037 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4040 New build-system features
4041 -------------------------
4043 Various portability fixes have been applied
4045 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4046 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4047 more portable than ever before.
4049 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4051 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4052 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4053 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4055 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4056 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4057 automatically run ldconfig.
4059 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4060 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4061 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4063 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4064 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4065 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4066 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4068 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4070 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4071 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4072 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4073 used in the resulting Makefile.
4075 New test-suite features
4076 -----------------------
4078 New modularization of test suite
4080 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4081 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4082 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4083 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4084 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4085 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4086 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4087 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4089 New testing of emacs interface
4091 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4092 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4093 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4094 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4095 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4096 database via the FCC setting.
4101 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4103 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4104 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4105 persistent error of the form:
4107 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4109 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4110 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4112 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4114 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4115 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4116 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4118 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4120 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4121 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4122 parsing the notmuch results).
4124 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4126 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4129 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4130 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4131 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4136 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4138 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4139 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4140 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4141 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4142 the emacs interface.
4144 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4146 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4147 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4148 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4150 Python-binding fixes
4151 --------------------
4153 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4155 Debian-specific fixes
4156 ---------------------
4158 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4160 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4161 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4162 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4165 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4166 ==========================
4171 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4173 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4174 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4175 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4176 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4178 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4180 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4181 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4182 want notmuch to crash.
4187 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4189 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4190 directory does not exist
4195 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4197 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4198 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4200 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4201 ========================
4203 New command-line features
4204 -------------------------
4206 User-configurable tags for new messages
4208 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4209 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4210 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4211 to specify this value.
4213 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4215 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4216 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4217 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4219 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4221 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4222 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4224 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4226 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4227 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4228 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4229 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4230 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4233 Indication of author names that match a search
4235 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4236 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4237 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4238 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4239 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4240 messages in the thread are listed first.
4242 New: Python bindings
4243 --------------------
4245 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4246 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4247 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4248 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4250 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4251 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4252 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4255 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4256 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4257 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4259 Emacs interface improvements
4260 ----------------------------
4262 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4264 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4265 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4266 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4267 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4268 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4269 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4270 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4271 but without any of the disadvantages).
4273 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4274 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4275 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4278 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4279 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4280 instead running something like:
4282 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4284 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4285 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4286 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4289 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4291 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4292 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4293 tweaked by the user.
4295 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4296 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4297 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4300 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4301 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4302 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4305 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4307 This support currently relies on an external program,
4308 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4309 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4310 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4311 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4312 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4315 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4316 notmuch) is available via:
4318 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4320 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4321 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4322 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4324 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4326 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4327 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4328 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4329 making this automatic in a future release.
4331 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4333 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4334 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4335 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4336 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4337 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4338 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4341 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4343 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4344 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4345 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4347 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4349 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4350 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4351 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4353 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4354 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4355 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4356 other representation.
4358 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4359 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4362 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4364 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4365 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4366 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4368 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4369 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4370 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4372 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4374 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4375 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4376 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4377 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4378 to display the search result.
4380 More flexible handling of header visibility
4382 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4383 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4384 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4385 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4386 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4387 with the 'h' keybinding.
4389 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4390 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4391 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4393 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4395 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4397 Customizable formatting of search results
4399 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4400 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4401 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4403 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4405 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4407 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4412 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4414 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4415 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4416 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4417 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4423 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4425 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4426 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4428 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4430 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4431 accept are now all accepted.
4436 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4438 Better display of output from failed tests
4440 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4441 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4443 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4444 ========================
4446 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4447 detailed release notes this time!
4449 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4450 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4452 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4453 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4454 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4455 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4462 Better guessing of From: header
4464 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4465 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4466 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4467 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4468 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4471 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4473 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4474 guaranteed to match all messages.
4476 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4478 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4479 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4480 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4481 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4482 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4485 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4488 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4489 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4490 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4491 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4496 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4498 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4499 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4500 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4501 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4503 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4505 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4507 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4508 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4509 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4511 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4513 Previously, the user might see:
4515 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4519 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4521 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4522 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4523 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4524 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4526 Emacs client features
4527 ---------------------
4529 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4531 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4532 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4533 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4534 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4535 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4537 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4540 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4541 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4542 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4543 search with the '*' binding.
4545 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4547 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4548 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4551 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4553 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4554 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4555 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4557 Build-system features
4558 ---------------------
4560 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4562 Add support to configure for many standard options
4564 We include actual support for:
4566 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4568 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4570 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4571 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4573 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4574 separate "make install-emacs"
4576 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4578 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4579 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4580 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4582 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4585 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4586 ========================
4588 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4590 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4591 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4593 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4594 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4595 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4596 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4597 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4598 tags from messages in a thread.
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