1 Notmuch 0.33 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
8 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
9 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
11 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
16 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
18 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
19 ===========================
24 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
30 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
35 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
40 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
45 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
46 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
48 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
49 ===========================
54 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
55 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
56 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
58 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
59 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
60 database in a pre-new hook.
62 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
63 default worked only in "notmuch config".
68 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
69 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
71 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
72 =========================
77 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
78 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
79 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
80 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
81 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
82 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
83 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
84 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
85 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
86 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
87 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
92 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
93 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
95 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
96 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
97 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
98 - `notmuch_config_get`
100 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
101 now exposed (and generalized).
103 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
104 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
105 session has been fixed.
107 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
108 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
113 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
114 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
116 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
117 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
122 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
123 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
124 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
125 when prompting for senders.
127 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
128 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
131 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
133 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
135 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
136 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
137 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
138 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
139 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
140 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
141 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
143 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
144 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
146 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
147 you should change it to:
148 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
150 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
151 ===========================
156 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
161 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
163 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
164 ===========================
169 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
174 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
179 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
181 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
182 ===========================
187 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
188 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
190 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
191 ===========================
196 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
201 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
202 with a C++ header for some compilers.
204 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
206 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
207 =========================
212 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
213 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
214 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
216 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
218 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
220 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
222 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
225 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
227 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
228 search, show and tree mode)
230 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
233 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
236 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
237 always be newest first.
242 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
243 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
244 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
250 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
251 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
252 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
253 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
255 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
256 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
257 non-status providing versions.
259 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
260 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
262 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
263 promised in the documentation.
268 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
269 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
270 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
275 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
276 development version).
281 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
286 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
288 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
289 =========================
294 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
295 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
296 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
299 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
305 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
306 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
307 notmuch-properties(7)).
312 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
313 has protected headers (see
314 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
315 notmuch-properties(7)).
320 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
322 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
323 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
329 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
332 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
333 ===========================
338 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
340 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
345 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
347 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
348 ===========================
353 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
354 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
356 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
357 ===========================
362 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
364 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
365 =========================
370 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
371 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
374 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
375 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
376 the set of headers to be indexed.
378 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
381 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
382 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
383 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
386 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
387 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
388 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
390 Command Line Interface
391 ----------------------
393 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
396 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
398 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
399 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
400 more details about what is included there. This status includes
401 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
406 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
407 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
409 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
411 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
413 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
415 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
417 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
420 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
422 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
423 and may be removed in a future release.
425 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
431 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
433 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
434 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
439 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
440 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
441 cryptography support.
446 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
447 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
448 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
450 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
451 ===========================
453 Command line interface
454 ----------------------
456 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
457 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
459 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
460 ===========================
465 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
466 by message properties.
471 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
473 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
474 ===========================
479 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
484 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
485 now needed to build this documentation.
487 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
488 ===========================
493 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
494 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
496 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
497 =========================
504 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
505 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
506 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
507 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
508 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
511 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
513 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
514 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
515 correct encoding for such messages.
517 Command Line Interface
518 ----------------------
520 Support relative database paths
522 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
523 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
524 to $HOME of the invoking user.
529 Improve stderr handling
531 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
532 needed on e.g. macOS.
534 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
536 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
541 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
542 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
548 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
549 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
555 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
556 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
559 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
560 =========================
565 Add support for thread:{} queries
567 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
568 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
569 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
571 Command Line Interface
572 ----------------------
574 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
576 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
578 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
580 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
581 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
582 does not have to be available during message receipt.
587 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
593 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
594 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
596 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
597 ===========================
602 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
604 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
605 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
606 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
608 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
610 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
611 related abort in `notmuch show`.
613 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
614 ===========================
619 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
620 better late than never.
623 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
624 =========================
626 Command Line Interface
627 ----------------------
629 Support for re-indexing existing messages
631 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
632 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
633 change the way specific messages are indexed.
635 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
636 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
637 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
639 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
641 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
643 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
645 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
646 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
647 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
648 the setting of `new.tags`.
650 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
652 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
654 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
656 This inserts into the top level folder.
658 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
660 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
662 New option --output=address for notmuch address
664 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
666 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
668 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
669 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
670 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
672 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
677 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
679 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
680 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
681 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
682 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
683 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
684 config set index.decrypt true".
686 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
687 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
688 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
689 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
690 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
691 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
692 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
693 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
695 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
696 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
697 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
698 this feature without considering the security of your index.
703 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
705 Use make-process when available
707 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
708 notmuch command without using temporary files.
713 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
715 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
716 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
717 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
718 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
720 New functions to count files
722 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
723 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
725 New function to remove properties
727 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
728 drop all properties with a common pattern:
729 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
731 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
733 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
734 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
735 possibility of NULL was not documented.
737 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
739 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
740 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
741 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
742 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
743 operator may decide to change from message to message.
750 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
751 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
752 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
758 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
760 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
761 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
763 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
765 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
767 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
769 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
774 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
775 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
777 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
778 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
779 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
780 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
781 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
782 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
787 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
789 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
790 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
791 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
792 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
794 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
795 ===========================
800 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
801 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
804 Command Line Interface
805 ----------------------
807 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
808 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
811 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
812 ===========================
814 Command Line Interface
815 ----------------------
817 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
818 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
823 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
826 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
827 ===========================
832 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
835 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
836 =========================
841 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
843 Skip HTML tags when indexing
845 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
847 Command Line Interface
848 ----------------------
850 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
852 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
857 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
859 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
860 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
863 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
868 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
870 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
871 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
873 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
875 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
876 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
879 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
881 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
883 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
885 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
886 ===========================
888 Command Line Interface
889 ----------------------
891 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
896 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
898 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
899 ===========================
904 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
906 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
907 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
910 Command Line Interface
911 ----------------------
913 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
915 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
917 Fix bug in dump header
919 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
920 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
921 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
926 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
928 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
929 =========================
934 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
936 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
939 Command Line Interface
940 ----------------------
942 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
944 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
945 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
946 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
948 New default output format to 3
950 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
951 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
952 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
953 default format changes.
958 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
960 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
961 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
962 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
963 or tree view to resume.
965 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
966 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
967 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
970 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
971 they were when you postponed in the final message.
975 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
976 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
977 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
978 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
979 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
983 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
984 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
985 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
986 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
987 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
988 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
992 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
993 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
995 Stop display of `application/*` parts
997 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
998 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
999 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1000 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1001 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1002 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1003 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1004 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1007 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1009 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1010 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1011 only tagged the current thread.)
1013 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1015 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1016 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1017 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1019 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1021 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1022 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1023 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1024 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1025 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1026 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1027 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1029 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1031 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1032 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1033 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1038 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1040 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1043 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1045 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1048 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1049 ===========================
1054 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1056 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1057 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1058 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1061 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1062 ===========================
1064 Command Line Interface
1065 ----------------------
1067 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1072 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1074 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1075 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1076 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1078 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1079 ===========================
1084 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1085 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1087 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1088 ===========================
1090 Command Line Interface
1091 ----------------------
1093 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1095 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1096 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1097 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1102 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1104 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1105 ===========================
1107 Command Line Interface
1108 ----------------------
1110 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1115 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1117 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1118 ===========================
1123 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1125 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1126 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1127 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1129 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1131 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1133 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1134 ===========================
1139 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1141 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1146 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1148 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1149 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1150 the original colours.
1152 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1153 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1155 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1157 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1158 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1159 bug, and hence the test.
1161 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1162 =========================
1164 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1165 ---------------------
1167 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1169 Support for single argument date: queries
1171 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1173 Support for blocking opens
1175 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1176 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1178 Support for named queries
1180 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1181 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1182 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1187 Message property API
1189 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1190 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1191 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1192 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1194 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1196 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1201 Support for compile time options
1203 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1204 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1207 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1209 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1210 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1211 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1212 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1213 scripts to ignore it.
1218 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1220 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1221 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1222 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1224 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1225 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1226 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1227 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1228 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1229 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1230 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1232 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1233 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1236 Make internal address completion customizable
1238 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1239 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1240 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1241 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1244 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1246 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1247 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1248 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1249 completion for the current buffer.
1251 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1252 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1253 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1257 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1258 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1259 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1260 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1261 will be added instead.
1263 Face customization is easier
1265 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1266 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1267 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1268 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1270 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1275 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1280 Go bindings moved to contrib
1282 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1284 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1286 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1287 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1289 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1291 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1292 ===========================
1299 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1300 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1302 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1304 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1306 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1307 ===========================
1312 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1314 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1319 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1324 Use `env` to locate perl.
1329 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1331 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1333 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1335 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1337 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1338 =========================
1345 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1346 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1348 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1350 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1351 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1352 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1357 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1358 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1359 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1361 Command Line Interface
1362 ----------------------
1364 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1366 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1371 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1376 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1378 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1379 parts are now included in replies.
1381 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1382 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1383 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1384 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1386 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1388 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1390 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1392 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1393 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1394 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1395 forwards only the current message.
1397 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1399 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1400 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1401 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1402 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1403 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1404 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1405 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1406 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1409 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1410 longer generate empty buffers
1412 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1413 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1414 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1415 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1416 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1418 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1420 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1423 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1425 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1428 Address completion improvements
1430 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1431 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1432 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1433 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1434 interactive address completion.
1436 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1438 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1439 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1440 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1445 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1446 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1447 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1453 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1454 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1455 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1456 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1457 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1458 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1460 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1461 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1462 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1463 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1464 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1465 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1467 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1468 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1470 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1471 =========================
1476 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1479 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1481 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1482 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1483 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1485 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1486 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1488 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1489 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1490 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1492 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1494 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1495 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1496 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1497 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1498 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1499 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1504 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1505 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1508 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1509 option to configure.
1511 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1513 Command Line Interface
1514 ----------------------
1516 Database revision tracking
1518 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1519 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1520 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1521 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1523 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1525 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1526 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1527 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1528 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1529 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1530 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1531 manual page for further information.
1536 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1538 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1539 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1541 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1543 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1544 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1545 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1547 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1549 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1551 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1552 customization as well.
1554 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1556 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1558 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1560 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1562 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1563 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1564 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1565 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1567 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1569 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1570 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1571 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1572 this variable to 10000.
1577 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1578 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1580 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1582 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1583 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1584 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1585 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1586 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1587 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1588 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1589 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1590 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1593 Database revision tracking
1595 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1596 query parser and the new function
1597 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1599 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1601 Deprecated functions
1603 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1604 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1605 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1606 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1611 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1613 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1614 ===========================
1619 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1621 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1622 ===========================
1627 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1629 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1630 =========================
1632 Command-Line Interface
1633 ----------------------
1635 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1637 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1638 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1639 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1641 Path to gpg is now configurable
1643 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1644 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1649 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1651 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1656 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1661 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1666 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1668 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1669 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1671 New error logging facility
1673 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1674 output formerly printed to stderr.
1676 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1678 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1680 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1682 Fix for rounding of seconds
1687 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1689 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1690 documentation has been removed.
1692 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1694 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1695 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1700 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1701 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1702 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1707 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1708 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1709 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1710 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1711 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1712 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1715 git checkout config origin/config
1717 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1719 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1720 =========================
1725 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1726 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1727 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1728 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1729 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1730 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1731 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1733 Command-Line Interface
1734 ----------------------
1736 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1738 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1739 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1740 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1741 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1742 script callers should still check the return value.
1744 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1746 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1747 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1748 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1749 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1750 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1751 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1752 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1754 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1756 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1757 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1758 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1760 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1762 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1763 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1764 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1765 currently unmaintained.
1767 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1769 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1770 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1771 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1772 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1774 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1776 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1777 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1778 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1779 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1780 count of duplicate addresses.
1785 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1787 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1788 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1789 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1792 Improved handling of the unread tag
1794 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1795 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1796 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1797 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1798 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1799 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1800 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1802 Expanded default saved search settings
1804 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1805 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1807 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1809 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1810 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1811 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1813 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1815 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1816 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1817 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1818 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1819 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1820 the variable for details.
1825 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1827 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1828 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1829 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1830 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1832 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1834 Previously, library users were required to call
1835 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1836 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1837 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1838 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1839 too out of date for that API.
1841 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1843 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1844 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1845 atomic section will be aborted.
1847 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1848 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1850 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1852 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1853 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1854 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1855 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1856 messages into the same thread.
1861 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1862 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1863 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1864 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1865 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1866 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1871 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1872 from the config file. Use something like:
1876 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1877 "footer": "</body></html>",
1886 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1891 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1892 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1893 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1895 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1896 ===========================
1901 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1903 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1905 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1907 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1908 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1910 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1912 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1915 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1916 ===========================
1918 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1923 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1925 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1927 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1929 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1931 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1937 Use --quick when starting emacs
1939 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1941 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1943 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1945 Command-Line Interface
1946 ----------------------
1948 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1949 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1954 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1956 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1957 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1959 Fix for phrase indexing
1961 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1962 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1963 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1968 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1970 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1971 unintentionally removed.
1973 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1974 =========================
1979 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1980 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1981 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1982 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1983 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1984 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1985 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1986 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1987 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1993 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1995 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1996 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1997 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1998 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1999 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2000 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2001 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2002 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2004 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2006 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2007 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2008 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2009 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2012 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2014 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2015 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2016 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2017 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2018 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2019 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2020 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2025 Notmuch database upgrade
2027 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2028 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2029 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2030 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2031 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2032 released version of Notmuch before now.
2034 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2036 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2037 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2038 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2039 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2041 Message header parsing changes
2043 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2044 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2045 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2046 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2047 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2048 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2050 Command-Line Interface
2051 ----------------------
2053 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2055 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2057 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2059 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2061 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2063 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2064 user does not want it.
2066 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2068 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2069 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2070 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2071 support formatted output.
2073 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2075 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2076 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2077 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2085 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2086 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2087 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2088 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2089 `~/.emacs` with these.
2091 Changed format for saved searches
2093 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2094 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2095 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2096 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2099 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2100 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2101 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2102 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2104 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2105 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2106 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2108 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2109 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2110 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2111 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2112 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2114 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2116 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2117 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2118 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2120 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2122 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2123 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2124 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2125 message had been unread).
2127 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2128 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2129 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2130 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2132 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2133 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2134 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2136 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2137 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2138 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2139 to tags already present.
2143 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2144 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2145 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2146 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2147 these differ from each other.
2148 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2150 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2152 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2153 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2154 for these Emacs versions.
2156 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2158 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2159 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2161 Bug fixes for sender identities
2163 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2164 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2165 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2167 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2169 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2170 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2171 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2172 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2174 Reply pushes mark before signature
2176 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2177 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2178 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2180 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2182 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2183 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2189 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2190 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2192 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2193 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2194 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2195 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2197 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2198 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2199 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2200 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2201 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2203 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2205 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2206 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2208 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2209 =========================
2211 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2212 ---------------------------------------
2214 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2215 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2216 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2217 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2218 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2219 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2220 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2224 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2225 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2227 Command-Line Interface
2228 ----------------------
2230 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2232 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2233 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2234 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2235 print for each message.
2237 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2238 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2239 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2240 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2242 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2244 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2245 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2246 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2248 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2250 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2251 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2252 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2253 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2255 `notmuch compact` command
2257 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2258 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2259 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2260 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2261 move the compacted database into place.
2266 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2268 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2269 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2270 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2271 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2272 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2273 and multiple threads.
2275 Using `notmuch-tree`
2277 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2279 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2280 search, show and tree mode itself)
2282 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2285 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2286 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2288 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2290 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2291 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2292 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2293 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2294 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2295 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2296 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2298 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2300 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2301 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2302 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2303 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2304 thread when the search was performed.
2306 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2308 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2309 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2310 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2312 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2314 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2315 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2318 Built-in help improvements
2320 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2321 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2322 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2324 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2326 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2327 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2328 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2330 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2332 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2333 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2335 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2337 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2338 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2339 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2340 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2342 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2344 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2345 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2346 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2347 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2349 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2351 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2352 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2353 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2355 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2357 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2358 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2359 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2361 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2363 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2364 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2365 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2366 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2367 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2369 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2371 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2372 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2373 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2374 the body part of the message.
2379 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2380 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2381 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2383 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2384 =========================
2386 Command-Line Interface
2387 ----------------------
2389 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2391 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2392 folder and notmuch index.
2394 `notmuch count --batch` option
2396 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2397 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2399 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2401 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2402 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2403 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2406 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2408 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2409 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2410 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2411 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2412 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2415 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2417 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2418 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2420 Top level option to specify configuration file
2422 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2423 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2425 Bash command-line completion
2427 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2428 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2429 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2430 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2431 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2432 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2433 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2434 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2435 bash-completion package.
2437 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2442 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2444 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2445 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2446 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2447 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2448 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2449 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2450 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2451 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2453 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2455 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2456 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2457 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2459 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2461 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2462 previous thread in the search results.
2464 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2466 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2467 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2469 Faster search and show
2471 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2472 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2473 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2474 threads should show faster.
2478 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2479 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2480 in question was now removed from this release.
2485 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2486 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2491 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2493 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2494 ===========================
2499 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2501 Internal test framework changes
2502 -------------------------------
2504 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2505 being unimplemented.
2507 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2508 ===========================
2510 Internal test framework changes
2511 -------------------------------
2513 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2514 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2516 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2517 =========================
2522 Date range search support
2524 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2525 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2526 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2527 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2528 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2531 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2533 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2534 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2535 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2536 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2537 but may be removed in a future release.
2539 Command-Line Interface
2540 ----------------------
2542 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2544 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2545 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2547 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2549 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2550 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2551 officially deprecated.
2553 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2555 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2556 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2557 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2559 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2561 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2562 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2565 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2566 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2567 dump/restore format.
2569 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2571 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2572 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2573 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2575 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2577 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2578 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2579 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2581 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2583 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2584 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2585 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2586 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2591 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2593 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2594 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2595 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2596 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2598 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2600 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2601 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2602 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2603 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2604 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2605 the behavior of this, see
2606 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2607 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2609 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2610 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2611 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2613 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2615 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2616 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2619 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2621 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2622 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2623 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2624 simply displayed in place of the message.
2626 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2628 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2629 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2631 Improved text/calendar content handling
2633 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2634 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2635 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2636 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2638 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2640 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2641 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2642 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2643 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2645 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2647 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2648 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2649 for HTML email containing images.
2651 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2653 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2655 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2657 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2660 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2662 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2663 the point where it was.
2665 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2667 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2668 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2669 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2670 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2671 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2673 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2675 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2676 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2677 thread instead of the message id.
2679 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2680 -----------------------------
2682 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2683 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2684 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2685 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2686 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2687 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2688 further details and installation.
2693 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2695 Internal test framework changes
2696 -------------------------------
2698 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2700 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2701 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2702 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2703 can result in buggy behavior.
2705 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2706 =========================
2711 Maildir tag synchronization
2713 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2714 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2715 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2716 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2717 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2718 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2721 Command-Line Interface
2722 ----------------------
2724 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2725 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2726 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2727 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2728 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2734 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2736 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2738 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2739 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2740 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2742 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2744 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2745 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2746 span multiple lines.
2748 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2750 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2751 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2752 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2753 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2754 inside the result or message.
2756 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2758 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2759 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2761 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2762 user-specified formatting
2764 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2765 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2766 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2767 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2768 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2770 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2771 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2773 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2774 ===========================
2779 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2780 compilation error for this contrib package.
2782 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2783 ===========================
2788 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2790 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2791 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2792 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2793 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2795 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2796 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2799 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2800 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2801 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2802 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2805 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2807 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2810 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2811 =========================
2813 Command-Line Interface
2814 ----------------------
2818 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2819 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2820 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2821 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2823 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2824 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2825 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2826 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2830 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2831 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2833 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2834 tag in your query, for example:
2836 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2838 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2839 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2841 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2842 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2844 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2846 Raw show format changes
2848 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2849 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2850 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2851 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2852 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2853 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2854 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2855 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2857 Listing configuration items
2859 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2865 Changes to tagging interface
2867 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2868 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2869 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2870 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2871 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2872 for more information.
2874 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2875 may need to update in custom configurations.
2877 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2879 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2880 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2881 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2882 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2885 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2886 -----------------------------
2888 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2889 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2890 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2891 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2892 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2893 contrib/ from now on.
2898 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2899 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2901 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2902 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2904 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2905 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2906 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2908 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2909 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2911 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2912 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2913 returning the new database object or directory object.
2920 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2921 compatible with go 1.
2923 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2924 =========================
2926 Command-Line Interface
2927 ----------------------
2931 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2932 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2933 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2934 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2936 Mail store folder/file ignore
2938 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2939 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2940 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2942 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2943 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2945 Unified help and manual pages
2947 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2948 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2951 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2953 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2954 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2962 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2963 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2964 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2965 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2967 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2969 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2970 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2972 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2975 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2976 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2977 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2979 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2981 should be changed to:
2983 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2985 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2987 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2988 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2990 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2992 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2993 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2994 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2995 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2996 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2997 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3001 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3002 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3003 of Mailing List Archives.
3005 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3007 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3008 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3011 Show view archiving key binding changes
3013 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3014 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3015 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3016 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3017 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3020 Support text/calendar MIME type
3022 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3025 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3027 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3028 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3029 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3030 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3032 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3034 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3035 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3036 messages blue by default in the search view.
3040 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3041 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3048 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3051 Python bindings changes
3052 -----------------------
3054 Python 3.2 compatibility
3056 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3058 Added missing unicode conversions
3060 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3061 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3062 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3067 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3069 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3070 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3071 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3072 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3073 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3075 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3076 ===========================
3081 Fix error handling in python bindings
3083 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3084 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3085 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3086 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3088 Quote MML tags in replies
3090 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3091 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3092 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3093 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3094 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3095 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3096 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3097 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3099 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3100 =========================
3102 Command-Line Interface
3103 ----------------------
3107 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3108 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3109 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3110 importing new messages into the database.
3112 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3114 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3115 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3116 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3121 Automatic tag query optimization
3123 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3124 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3125 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3127 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3129 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3130 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3131 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3136 Reduction of memory leaks
3138 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3139 and fixed in this release.
3146 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3147 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3148 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3151 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3153 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3154 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3155 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3158 Improvements in saved search management
3160 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3161 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3162 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3164 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3166 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3167 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3168 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3170 New face for crypto parts headers
3172 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3173 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3174 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3177 Use space as default thousands separator
3179 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3180 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3181 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3183 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3184 buttonized id: links
3186 New function notmuch-show-advance
3188 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3189 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3190 be bound to SPC with:
3192 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3194 Various performance improvements
3199 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3200 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3203 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3204 ===========================
3209 Fix crash in python bindings
3211 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3212 for some, but not all users.
3214 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3215 ===========================
3220 Fix `--help` argument
3222 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3223 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3224 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3226 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3227 =========================
3229 New build and testing features
3230 ------------------------------
3232 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3233 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3234 prerequisites is improved.
3236 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3238 New command-line features
3239 -------------------------
3241 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3243 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3244 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3247 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3249 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3250 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3251 favour of using stdout.
3253 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3255 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3256 limit the number of results shown.
3258 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3260 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3261 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3264 New emacs UI features
3265 ---------------------
3267 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3269 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3270 starting with "tag:".
3272 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3274 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3275 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3277 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3279 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3281 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3283 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3284 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3289 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3291 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3293 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3294 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3295 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3296 requires a database rebuild:
3298 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3299 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3301 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3303 New collection of add-on tools
3304 ------------------------------
3306 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3307 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3308 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3311 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3313 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3314 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3315 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3317 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3318 ========================
3320 New, general features
3321 ---------------------
3323 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3325 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3326 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3327 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3328 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3329 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3336 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3337 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3339 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3343 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3344 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3345 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3348 Python bindings changes
3349 -----------------------
3351 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3353 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3354 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3355 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3356 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3357 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3358 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3360 Ruby bindings changes
3361 ---------------------
3363 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3364 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3365 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3366 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3371 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3373 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3374 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3376 Reply formatting cleanup
3377 ------------------------
3379 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3380 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3382 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3383 ========================
3385 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3387 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3388 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3389 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3390 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3393 Improved Build system portability
3395 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3396 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3397 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3399 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3401 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3403 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3405 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3406 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3407 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3409 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3410 ========================
3412 Vim interface improvements
3413 --------------------------
3415 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3417 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3418 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3419 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3420 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3421 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3423 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3425 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3426 * fix compose temp file name
3428 Python Bindings changes
3429 -----------------------
3431 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3433 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3434 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3436 Build-System improvements
3437 -------------------------
3439 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3441 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3444 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3445 ==========================
3450 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3452 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3453 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3455 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3456 =======================
3458 New, general features
3459 ---------------------
3461 Folder-based searching
3463 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3464 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3465 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3469 For example, one might use things such as:
3475 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3476 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3478 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3479 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3480 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3481 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3483 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3484 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3485 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3488 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3489 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3491 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3493 Support for PGP/MIME
3495 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3496 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3497 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3499 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3501 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3502 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3504 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3505 notmuch will receive these tags.
3507 New command-line features
3508 -------------------------
3510 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3512 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3513 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3515 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3517 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3518 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3519 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3521 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3523 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3524 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3525 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3526 which parts a signature part applies).
3528 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3530 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3531 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3532 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3533 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3534 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3537 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3539 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3540 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3541 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3542 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3543 by translating it internally to the new call.
3545 Performance improvements
3546 ------------------------
3548 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3550 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3551 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3552 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3554 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3555 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3557 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3559 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3560 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3561 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3563 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3564 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3565 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3566 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3568 Faster initial indexing
3570 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3571 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3572 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3574 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3576 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3577 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3578 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3579 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3581 New emacs-interface features
3582 ----------------------------
3584 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3586 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3587 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3588 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3589 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3590 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3591 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3593 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3595 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3596 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3597 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3598 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3600 User-selectable From address
3602 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3603 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3604 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3605 will prompt for the from address to use.
3607 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3608 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3609 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3611 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3612 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3613 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3616 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3618 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3619 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3621 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3623 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3625 ----- Original Message -----
3627 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3628 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3629 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3630 citations work much like conventional citations.
3632 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3634 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3635 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3636 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3637 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3638 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3640 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3641 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3643 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3645 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3646 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3647 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3649 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3651 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3652 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3653 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3654 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3655 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3657 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3659 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3662 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3664 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3666 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3668 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3671 Vim interface improvements
3672 --------------------------
3674 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3676 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3677 * Implementing archive in show view
3678 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3679 * Add delete commands
3682 Bindings improvements
3683 ---------------------
3685 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3687 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3688 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3690 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3692 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3696 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3697 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3698 `list(Messages)` works now
3699 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3701 These allow, for example:
3703 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3705 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3707 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3713 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3715 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3718 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3720 New build-system features
3721 -------------------------
3723 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3725 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3726 the configure script from some other directory:
3733 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3735 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3736 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3737 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3738 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3739 manual invocation of configure.
3741 New test-suite feature
3742 ----------------------
3744 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3746 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3747 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3748 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3749 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3750 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3753 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3755 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3756 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3757 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3758 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3759 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3760 are updated to take advantage of this.
3762 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3764 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3765 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3766 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3767 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3773 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3775 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3776 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3777 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3779 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3781 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3783 to:user@elsewhere.com
3785 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3787 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3789 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3791 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3792 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3793 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3796 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3797 from the Received headers in some cases
3799 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3800 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3802 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3804 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3806 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3808 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3809 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3810 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3812 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3813 -------------------------
3815 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3817 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3818 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3819 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3821 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3823 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3824 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3825 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3828 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3830 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3831 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3832 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3833 fixed to avoid this bug.
3835 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3837 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3838 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3840 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3841 ========================
3843 New, general features
3844 ---------------------
3846 Maildir-flag synchronization
3848 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3849 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3858 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3860 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3861 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3862 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3863 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3865 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3866 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3867 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3868 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3871 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3873 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3874 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3875 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3877 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3878 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3880 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3881 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3883 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3884 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3885 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3887 New library features
3888 --------------------
3890 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3892 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3893 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3894 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3895 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3897 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3898 message with the new function:
3900 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3902 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3903 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3904 over all available filenames for a given message.
3906 New command-line features
3907 -------------------------
3909 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3911 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3912 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3913 access to the mail store itself.
3915 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3916 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3917 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3918 name of a script containing:
3920 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3922 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3923 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3929 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3931 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3933 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3935 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3936 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3937 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3938 now produces nothing).
3940 Emacs interface improvements
3941 ----------------------------
3943 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3945 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3947 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3949 Display current thread subject in a header line
3951 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3953 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3955 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3956 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3957 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3958 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3959 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3960 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3961 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3963 Vim interface improvements
3964 --------------------------
3966 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3968 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3969 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3975 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3977 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3978 ========================
3980 New command-line features
3981 -------------------------
3983 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3985 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3986 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3987 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3989 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3990 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3991 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3992 scripts. For example:
3994 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3995 <operations-on> "$file"
3998 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4000 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4001 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4002 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4003 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4004 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4005 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4007 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4009 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4010 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4011 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4012 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4014 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4016 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4017 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4018 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4019 default rather than Bcc.
4021 New library features
4022 --------------------
4024 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4026 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4027 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4032 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4034 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4035 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4036 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4037 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4038 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4039 notmuch customize interface.
4041 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4043 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4044 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4045 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4046 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4048 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4050 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4051 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4052 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4053 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4055 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4057 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4058 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4059 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4060 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4061 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4062 notmuch customize interface.
4064 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4066 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4067 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4068 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4069 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4070 notmuch customize interface.
4072 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4074 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4075 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4076 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4077 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4080 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4082 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4083 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4084 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4087 New build-system features
4088 -------------------------
4090 Various portability fixes have been applied
4092 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4093 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4094 more portable than ever before.
4096 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4098 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4099 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4100 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4102 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4103 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4104 automatically run ldconfig.
4106 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4107 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4108 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4110 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4111 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4112 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4113 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4115 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4117 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4118 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4119 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4120 used in the resulting Makefile.
4122 New test-suite features
4123 -----------------------
4125 New modularization of test suite
4127 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4128 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4129 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4130 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4131 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4132 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4133 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4134 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4136 New testing of emacs interface
4138 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4139 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4140 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4141 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4142 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4143 database via the FCC setting.
4148 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4150 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4151 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4152 persistent error of the form:
4154 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4156 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4157 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4159 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4161 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4162 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4163 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4165 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4167 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4168 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4169 parsing the notmuch results).
4171 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4173 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4176 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4177 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4178 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4183 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4185 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4186 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4187 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4188 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4189 the emacs interface.
4191 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4193 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4194 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4195 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4197 Python-binding fixes
4198 --------------------
4200 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4202 Debian-specific fixes
4203 ---------------------
4205 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4207 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4208 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4209 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4212 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4213 ==========================
4218 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4220 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4221 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4222 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4223 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4225 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4227 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4228 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4229 want notmuch to crash.
4234 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4236 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4237 directory does not exist
4242 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4244 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4245 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4247 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4248 ========================
4250 New command-line features
4251 -------------------------
4253 User-configurable tags for new messages
4255 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4256 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4257 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4258 to specify this value.
4260 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4262 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4263 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4264 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4266 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4268 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4269 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4271 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4273 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4274 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4275 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4276 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4277 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4280 Indication of author names that match a search
4282 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4283 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4284 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4285 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4286 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4287 messages in the thread are listed first.
4289 New: Python bindings
4290 --------------------
4292 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4293 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4294 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4295 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4297 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4298 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4299 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4302 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4303 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4304 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4306 Emacs interface improvements
4307 ----------------------------
4309 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4311 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4312 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4313 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4314 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4315 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4316 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4317 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4318 but without any of the disadvantages).
4320 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4321 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4322 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4325 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4326 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4327 instead running something like:
4329 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4331 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4332 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4333 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4336 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4338 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4339 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4340 tweaked by the user.
4342 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4343 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4344 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4347 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4348 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4349 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4352 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4354 This support currently relies on an external program,
4355 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4356 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4357 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4358 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4359 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4362 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4363 notmuch) is available via:
4365 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4367 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4368 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4369 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4371 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4373 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4374 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4375 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4376 making this automatic in a future release.
4378 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4380 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4381 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4382 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4383 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4384 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4385 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4388 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4390 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4391 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4392 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4394 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4396 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4397 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4398 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4400 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4401 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4402 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4403 other representation.
4405 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4406 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4409 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4411 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4412 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4413 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4415 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4416 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4417 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4419 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4421 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4422 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4423 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4424 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4425 to display the search result.
4427 More flexible handling of header visibility
4429 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4430 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4431 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4432 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4433 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4434 with the 'h' keybinding.
4436 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4437 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4438 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4440 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4442 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4444 Customizable formatting of search results
4446 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4447 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4448 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4450 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4452 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4454 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4459 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4461 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4462 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4463 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4464 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4470 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4472 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4473 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4475 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4477 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4478 accept are now all accepted.
4483 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4485 Better display of output from failed tests
4487 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4488 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4490 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4491 ========================
4493 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4494 detailed release notes this time!
4496 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4497 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4499 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4500 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4501 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4502 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4509 Better guessing of From: header
4511 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4512 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4513 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4514 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4515 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4518 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4520 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4521 guaranteed to match all messages.
4523 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4525 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4526 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4527 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4528 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4529 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4532 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4535 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4536 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4537 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4538 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4543 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4545 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4546 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4547 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4548 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4550 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4552 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4554 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4555 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4556 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4558 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4560 Previously, the user might see:
4562 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4566 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4568 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4569 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4570 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4571 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4573 Emacs client features
4574 ---------------------
4576 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4578 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4579 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4580 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4581 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4582 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4584 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4587 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4588 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4589 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4590 search with the '*' binding.
4592 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4594 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4595 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4598 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4600 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4601 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4602 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4604 Build-system features
4605 ---------------------
4607 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4609 Add support to configure for many standard options
4611 We include actual support for:
4613 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4615 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4617 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4618 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4620 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4621 separate "make install-emacs"
4623 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4625 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4626 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4627 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4629 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4632 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4633 ========================
4635 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4637 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4638 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4640 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4641 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4642 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4643 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4644 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4645 tags from messages in a thread.
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