1 Notmuch 0.31 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
8 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
9 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
11 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
13 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
15 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
17 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
20 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
22 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
23 search, show and tree mode)
25 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
28 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
31 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
32 always be newest first.
37 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
38 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
39 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
45 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
46 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
47 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
48 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
50 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
51 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
52 non-status providing versions.
54 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
55 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
57 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
58 promised in the documentation.
63 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
64 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
65 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
70 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
76 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
81 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
83 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
84 =========================
89 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
90 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
91 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
94 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
100 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
101 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
102 notmuch-properties(7)).
107 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
108 has protected headers (see
109 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
110 notmuch-properties(7)).
115 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
117 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
118 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
124 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
127 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
128 ===========================
133 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
135 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
140 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
142 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
143 ===========================
148 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
149 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
151 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
152 ===========================
157 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
159 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
160 =========================
165 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
166 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
169 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
170 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
171 the set of headers to be indexed.
173 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
176 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
177 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
178 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
181 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
182 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
183 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
185 Command Line Interface
186 ----------------------
188 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
191 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
193 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
194 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
195 more details about what is included there. This status includes
196 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
201 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
202 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
204 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
206 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
208 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
210 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
212 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
215 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
217 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
218 and may be removed in a future release.
220 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
226 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
228 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
229 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
234 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
235 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
236 cryptography support.
241 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
242 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
243 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
245 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
246 ===========================
248 Command line interface
249 ----------------------
251 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
252 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
254 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
255 ===========================
260 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
261 by message properties.
266 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
268 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
269 ===========================
274 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
279 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
280 now needed to build this documentation.
282 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
283 ===========================
288 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
289 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
291 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
292 =========================
299 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
300 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
301 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
302 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
303 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
306 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
308 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
309 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
310 correct encoding for such messages.
312 Command Line Interface
313 ----------------------
315 Support relative database paths
317 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
318 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
319 to $HOME of the invoking user.
324 Improve stderr handling
326 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
327 needed on e.g. macOS.
329 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
331 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
336 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
337 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
343 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
344 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
350 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
351 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
354 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
355 =========================
360 Add support for thread:{} queries
362 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
363 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
364 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
366 Command Line Interface
367 ----------------------
369 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
371 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
373 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
375 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
376 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
377 does not have to be available during message receipt.
382 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
388 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
389 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
391 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
392 ===========================
397 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
399 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
400 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
401 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
403 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
405 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
406 related abort in `notmuch show`.
408 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
409 ===========================
414 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
415 better late than never.
418 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
419 =========================
421 Command Line Interface
422 ----------------------
424 Support for re-indexing existing messages
426 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
427 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
428 change the way specific messages are indexed.
430 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
431 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
432 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
434 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
436 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
438 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
440 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
441 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
442 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
443 the setting of `new.tags`.
445 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
447 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
449 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
451 This inserts into the top level folder.
453 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
455 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
457 New option --output=address for notmuch address
459 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
461 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
463 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
464 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
465 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
467 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
472 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
474 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
475 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
476 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
477 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
478 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
479 config set index.decrypt true".
481 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
482 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
483 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
484 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
485 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
486 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
487 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
488 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
490 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
491 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
492 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
493 this feature without considering the security of your index.
498 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
500 Use make-process when available
502 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
503 notmuch command without using temporary files.
508 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
510 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
511 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
512 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
513 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
515 New functions to count files
517 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
518 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
520 New function to remove properties
522 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
523 drop all properties with a common pattern:
524 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
526 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
528 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
529 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
530 possibility of NULL was not documented.
532 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
534 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
535 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
536 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
537 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
538 operator may decide to change from message to message.
545 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
546 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
547 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
553 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
555 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
556 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
558 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
560 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
562 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
564 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
569 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
570 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
572 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
573 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
574 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
575 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
576 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
577 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
582 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
584 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
585 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
586 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
587 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
589 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
590 ===========================
595 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
596 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
599 Command Line Interface
600 ----------------------
602 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
603 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
606 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
607 ===========================
609 Command Line Interface
610 ----------------------
612 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
613 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
618 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
621 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
622 ===========================
627 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
630 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
631 =========================
636 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
638 Skip HTML tags when indexing
640 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
642 Command Line Interface
643 ----------------------
645 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
647 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
652 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
654 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
655 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
658 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
663 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
665 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
666 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
668 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
670 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
671 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
674 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
676 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
678 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
680 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
681 ===========================
683 Command Line Interface
684 ----------------------
686 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
691 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
693 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
694 ===========================
699 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
701 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
702 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
705 Command Line Interface
706 ----------------------
708 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
710 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
712 Fix bug in dump header
714 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
715 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
716 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
721 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
723 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
724 =========================
729 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
731 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
734 Command Line Interface
735 ----------------------
737 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
739 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
740 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
741 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
743 New default output format to 3
745 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
746 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
747 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
748 default format changes.
753 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
755 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
756 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
757 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
758 or tree view to resume.
760 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
761 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
762 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
765 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
766 they were when you postponed in the final message.
770 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
771 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
772 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
773 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
774 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
778 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
779 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
780 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
781 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
782 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
783 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
787 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
788 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
790 Stop display of `application/*` parts
792 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
793 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
794 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
795 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
796 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
797 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
798 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
799 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
802 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
804 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
805 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
806 only tagged the current thread.)
808 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
810 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
811 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
812 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
814 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
816 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
817 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
818 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
819 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
820 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
821 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
822 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
824 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
826 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
827 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
828 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
833 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
835 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
838 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
840 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
843 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
844 ===========================
849 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
851 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
852 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
853 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
856 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
857 ===========================
859 Command Line Interface
860 ----------------------
862 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
867 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
869 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
870 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
871 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
873 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
874 ===========================
879 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
880 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
882 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
883 ===========================
885 Command Line Interface
886 ----------------------
888 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
890 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
891 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
892 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
897 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
899 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
900 ===========================
902 Command Line Interface
903 ----------------------
905 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
910 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
912 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
913 ===========================
918 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
920 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
921 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
922 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
924 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
926 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
928 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
929 ===========================
934 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
936 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
941 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
943 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
944 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
945 the original colours.
947 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
948 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
950 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
952 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
953 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
954 bug, and hence the test.
956 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
957 =========================
959 General (Xapian 1.4+)
960 ---------------------
962 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
964 Support for single argument date: queries
966 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
968 Support for blocking opens
970 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
971 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
973 Support for named queries
975 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
976 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
977 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
984 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
985 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
986 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
987 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
989 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
991 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
996 Support for compile time options
998 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
999 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1002 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1004 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1005 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1006 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1007 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1008 scripts to ignore it.
1013 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1015 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1016 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1017 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1019 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1020 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1021 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1022 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1023 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1024 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1025 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1027 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1028 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1031 Make internal address completion customizable
1033 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1034 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1035 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1036 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1039 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1041 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1042 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1043 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1044 completion for the current buffer.
1046 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1047 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1048 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1052 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1053 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1054 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1055 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1056 will be added instead.
1058 Face customization is easier
1060 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1061 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1062 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1063 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1065 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1070 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1075 Go bindings moved to contrib
1077 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1079 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1081 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1082 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1084 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1086 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1087 ===========================
1094 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1095 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1097 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1099 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1101 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1102 ===========================
1107 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1109 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1114 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1119 Use `env` to locate perl.
1124 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1126 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1128 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1130 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1132 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1133 =========================
1140 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1141 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1143 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1145 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1146 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1147 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1152 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1153 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1154 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1156 Command Line Interface
1157 ----------------------
1159 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1161 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1166 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1171 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1173 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1174 parts are now included in replies.
1176 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1177 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1178 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1179 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1181 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1183 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1185 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1187 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1188 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1189 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1190 forwards only the current message.
1192 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1194 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1195 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1196 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1197 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1198 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1199 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1200 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1201 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1204 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1205 longer generate empty buffers
1207 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1208 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1209 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1210 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1211 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1213 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1215 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1218 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1220 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1223 Address completion improvements
1225 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1226 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1227 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1228 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1229 interactive address completion.
1231 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1233 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1234 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1235 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1240 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1241 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1242 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1248 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1249 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1250 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1251 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1252 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1253 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1255 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1256 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1257 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1258 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1259 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1260 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1262 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1263 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1265 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1266 =========================
1271 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1274 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1276 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1277 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1278 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1280 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1281 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1283 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1284 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1285 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1287 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1289 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1290 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1291 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1292 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1293 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1294 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1299 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1300 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1303 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1304 option to configure.
1306 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1308 Command Line Interface
1309 ----------------------
1311 Database revision tracking
1313 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1314 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1315 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1316 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1318 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1320 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1321 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1322 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1323 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1324 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1325 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1326 manual page for further information.
1331 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1333 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1334 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1336 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1338 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1339 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1340 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1342 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1344 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1346 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1347 customization as well.
1349 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1351 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1353 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1355 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1357 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1358 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1359 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1360 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1362 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1364 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1365 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1366 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1367 this variable to 10000.
1372 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1373 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1375 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1377 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1378 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1379 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1380 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1381 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1382 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1383 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1384 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1385 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1388 Database revision tracking
1390 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1391 query parser and the new function
1392 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1394 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1396 Deprecated functions
1398 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1399 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1400 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1401 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1406 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1408 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1409 ===========================
1414 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1416 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1417 ===========================
1422 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1424 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1425 =========================
1427 Command-Line Interface
1428 ----------------------
1430 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1432 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1433 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1434 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1436 Path to gpg is now configurable
1438 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1439 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1444 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1446 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1451 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1456 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1461 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1463 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1464 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1466 New error logging facility
1468 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1469 output formerly printed to stderr.
1471 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1473 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1475 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1477 Fix for rounding of seconds
1482 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1484 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1485 documentation has been removed.
1487 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1489 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1490 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1495 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1496 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1497 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1502 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1503 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1504 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1505 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1506 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1507 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1510 git checkout config origin/config
1512 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1514 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1515 =========================
1520 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1521 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1522 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1523 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1524 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1525 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1526 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1528 Command-Line Interface
1529 ----------------------
1531 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1533 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1534 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1535 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1536 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1537 script callers should still check the return value.
1539 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1541 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1542 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1543 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1544 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1545 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1546 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1547 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1549 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1551 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1552 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1553 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1555 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1557 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1558 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1559 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1560 currently unmaintained.
1562 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1564 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1565 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1566 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1567 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1569 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1571 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1572 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1573 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1574 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1575 count of duplicate addresses.
1580 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1582 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1583 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1584 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1587 Improved handling of the unread tag
1589 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1590 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1591 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1592 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1593 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1594 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1595 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1597 Expanded default saved search settings
1599 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1600 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1602 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1604 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1605 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1606 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1608 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1610 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1611 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1612 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1613 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1614 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1615 the variable for details.
1620 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1622 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1623 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1624 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1625 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1627 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1629 Previously, library users were required to call
1630 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1631 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1632 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1633 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1634 too out of date for that API.
1636 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1638 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1639 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1640 atomic section will be aborted.
1642 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1643 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1645 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1647 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1648 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1649 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1650 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1651 messages into the same thread.
1656 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1657 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1658 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1659 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1660 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1661 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1666 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1667 from the config file. Use something like:
1671 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1672 "footer": "</body></html>",
1681 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1686 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1687 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1688 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1690 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1691 ===========================
1696 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1698 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1700 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1702 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1703 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1705 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1707 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1710 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1711 ===========================
1713 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1718 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1720 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1722 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1724 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1726 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1732 Use --quick when starting emacs
1734 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1736 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1738 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1740 Command-Line Interface
1741 ----------------------
1743 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1744 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1749 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1751 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1752 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1754 Fix for phrase indexing
1756 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1757 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1758 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1763 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1765 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1766 unintentionally removed.
1768 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1769 =========================
1774 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1775 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1776 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1777 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1778 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1779 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1780 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1781 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1782 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1788 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1790 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1791 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1792 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1793 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1794 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1795 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1796 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1797 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1799 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1801 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1802 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1803 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1804 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1807 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1809 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1810 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1811 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1812 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1813 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1814 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1815 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1820 Notmuch database upgrade
1822 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1823 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1824 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1825 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1826 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1827 released version of Notmuch before now.
1829 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1831 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1832 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1833 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1834 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1836 Message header parsing changes
1838 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1839 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1840 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1841 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1842 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1843 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1845 Command-Line Interface
1846 ----------------------
1848 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1850 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1852 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1854 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1856 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1858 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1859 user does not want it.
1861 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1863 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1864 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1865 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1866 support formatted output.
1868 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1870 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1871 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1872 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1880 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1881 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1882 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1883 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1884 `~/.emacs` with these.
1886 Changed format for saved searches
1888 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1889 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1890 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1891 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1894 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1895 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1896 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1897 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1899 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1900 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1901 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1903 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1904 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1905 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1906 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1907 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1909 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1911 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1912 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1913 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1915 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1917 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1918 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1919 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1920 message had been unread).
1922 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1923 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1924 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1925 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1927 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1928 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1929 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1931 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1932 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1933 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1934 to tags already present.
1938 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1939 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1940 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1941 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1942 these differ from each other.
1943 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1945 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1947 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1948 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1949 for these Emacs versions.
1951 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1953 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1954 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1956 Bug fixes for sender identities
1958 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1959 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1960 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1962 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1964 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1965 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1966 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1967 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1969 Reply pushes mark before signature
1971 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1972 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1973 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1975 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1977 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1978 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1984 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1985 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1987 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1988 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1989 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1990 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1992 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1993 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1994 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1995 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1996 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1998 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2000 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2001 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2003 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2004 =========================
2006 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2007 ---------------------------------------
2009 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2010 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2011 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2012 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2013 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2014 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2015 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2019 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2020 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2022 Command-Line Interface
2023 ----------------------
2025 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2027 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2028 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2029 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2030 print for each message.
2032 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2033 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2034 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2035 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2037 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2039 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2040 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2041 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2043 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2045 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2046 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2047 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2048 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2050 `notmuch compact` command
2052 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2053 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2054 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2055 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2056 move the compacted database into place.
2061 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2063 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2064 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2065 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2066 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2067 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2068 and multiple threads.
2070 Using `notmuch-tree`
2072 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2074 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2075 search, show and tree mode itself)
2077 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2080 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2081 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2083 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2085 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2086 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2087 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2088 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2089 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2090 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2091 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2093 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2095 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2096 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2097 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2098 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2099 thread when the search was performed.
2101 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2103 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2104 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2105 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2107 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2109 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2110 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2113 Built-in help improvements
2115 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2116 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2117 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2119 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2121 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2122 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2123 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2125 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2127 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2128 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2130 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2132 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2133 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2134 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2135 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2137 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2139 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2140 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2141 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2142 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2144 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2146 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2147 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2148 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2150 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2152 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2153 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2154 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2156 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2158 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2159 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2160 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2161 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2162 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2164 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2166 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2167 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2168 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2169 the body part of the message.
2174 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2175 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2176 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2178 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2179 =========================
2181 Command-Line Interface
2182 ----------------------
2184 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2186 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2187 folder and notmuch index.
2189 `notmuch count --batch` option
2191 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2192 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2194 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2196 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2197 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2198 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2201 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2203 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2204 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2205 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2206 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2207 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2210 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2212 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2213 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2215 Top level option to specify configuration file
2217 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2218 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2220 Bash command-line completion
2222 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2223 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2224 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2225 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2226 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2227 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2228 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2229 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2230 bash-completion package.
2232 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2237 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2239 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2240 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2241 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2242 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2243 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2244 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2245 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2246 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2248 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2250 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2251 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2252 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2254 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2256 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2257 previous thread in the search results.
2259 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2261 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2262 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2264 Faster search and show
2266 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2267 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2268 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2269 threads should show faster.
2273 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2274 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2275 in question was now removed from this release.
2280 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2281 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2286 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2288 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2289 ===========================
2294 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2296 Internal test framework changes
2297 -------------------------------
2299 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2300 being unimplemented.
2302 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2303 ===========================
2305 Internal test framework changes
2306 -------------------------------
2308 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2309 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2311 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2312 =========================
2317 Date range search support
2319 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2320 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2321 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2322 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2323 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2326 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2328 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2329 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2330 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2331 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2332 but may be removed in a future release.
2334 Command-Line Interface
2335 ----------------------
2337 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2339 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2340 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2342 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2344 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2345 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2346 officially deprecated.
2348 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2350 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2351 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2352 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2354 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2356 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2357 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2360 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2361 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2362 dump/restore format.
2364 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2366 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2367 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2368 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2370 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2372 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2373 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2374 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2376 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2378 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2379 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2380 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2381 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2386 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2388 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2389 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2390 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2391 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2393 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2395 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2396 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2397 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2398 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2399 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2400 the behavior of this, see
2401 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2402 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2404 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2405 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2406 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2408 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2410 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2411 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2414 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2416 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2417 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2418 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2419 simply displayed in place of the message.
2421 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2423 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2424 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2426 Improved text/calendar content handling
2428 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2429 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2430 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2431 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2433 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2435 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2436 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2437 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2438 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2440 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2442 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2443 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2444 for HTML email containing images.
2446 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2448 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2450 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2452 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2455 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2457 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2458 the point where it was.
2460 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2462 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2463 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2464 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2465 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2466 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2468 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2470 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2471 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2472 thread instead of the message id.
2474 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2475 -----------------------------
2477 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2478 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2479 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2480 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2481 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2482 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2483 further details and installation.
2488 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2490 Internal test framework changes
2491 -------------------------------
2493 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2495 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2496 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2497 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2498 can result in buggy behavior.
2500 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2501 =========================
2506 Maildir tag synchronization
2508 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2509 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2510 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2511 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2512 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2513 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2516 Command-Line Interface
2517 ----------------------
2519 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2520 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2521 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2522 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2523 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2529 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2531 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2533 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2534 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2535 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2537 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2539 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2540 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2541 span multiple lines.
2543 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2545 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2546 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2547 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2548 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2549 inside the result or message.
2551 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2553 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2554 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2556 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2557 user-specified formatting
2559 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2560 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2561 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2562 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2563 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2565 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2566 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2568 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2569 ===========================
2574 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2575 compilation error for this contrib package.
2577 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2578 ===========================
2583 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2585 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2586 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2587 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2588 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2590 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2591 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2594 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2595 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2596 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2597 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2600 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2602 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2605 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2606 =========================
2608 Command-Line Interface
2609 ----------------------
2613 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2614 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2615 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2616 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2618 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2619 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2620 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2621 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2625 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2626 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2628 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2629 tag in your query, for example:
2631 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2633 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2634 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2636 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2637 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2639 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2641 Raw show format changes
2643 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2644 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2645 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2646 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2647 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2648 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2649 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2650 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2652 Listing configuration items
2654 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2660 Changes to tagging interface
2662 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2663 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2664 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2665 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2666 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2667 for more information.
2669 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2670 may need to update in custom configurations.
2672 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2674 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2675 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2676 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2677 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2680 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2681 -----------------------------
2683 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2684 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2685 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2686 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2687 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2688 contrib/ from now on.
2693 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2694 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2696 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2697 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2699 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2700 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2701 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2703 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2704 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2706 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2707 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2708 returning the new database object or directory object.
2715 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2716 compatible with go 1.
2718 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2719 =========================
2721 Command-Line Interface
2722 ----------------------
2726 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2727 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2728 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2729 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2731 Mail store folder/file ignore
2733 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2734 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2735 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2737 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2738 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2740 Unified help and manual pages
2742 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2743 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2746 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2748 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2749 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2757 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2758 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2759 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2760 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2762 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2764 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2765 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2767 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2770 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2771 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2772 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2774 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2776 should be changed to:
2778 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2780 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2782 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2783 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2785 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2787 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2788 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2789 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2790 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2791 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2792 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2796 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2797 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2798 of Mailing List Archives.
2800 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2802 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2803 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2806 Show view archiving key binding changes
2808 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2809 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2810 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2811 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2812 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2815 Support text/calendar MIME type
2817 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2820 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2822 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2823 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2824 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2825 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2827 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2829 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2830 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2831 messages blue by default in the search view.
2835 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2836 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2843 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2846 Python bindings changes
2847 -----------------------
2849 Python 3.2 compatibility
2851 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2853 Added missing unicode conversions
2855 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2856 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2857 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2862 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2864 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2865 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2866 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2867 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2868 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2870 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2871 ===========================
2876 Fix error handling in python bindings
2878 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2879 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2880 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2881 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2883 Quote MML tags in replies
2885 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2886 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2887 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2888 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2889 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2890 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2891 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2892 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2894 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2895 =========================
2897 Command-Line Interface
2898 ----------------------
2902 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2903 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2904 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2905 importing new messages into the database.
2907 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2909 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2910 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2911 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2916 Automatic tag query optimization
2918 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2919 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2920 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2922 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2924 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2925 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2926 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2931 Reduction of memory leaks
2933 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2934 and fixed in this release.
2941 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2942 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2943 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2946 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2948 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2949 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2950 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2953 Improvements in saved search management
2955 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2956 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2957 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2959 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2961 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2962 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2963 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2965 New face for crypto parts headers
2967 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2968 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2969 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2972 Use space as default thousands separator
2974 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2975 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2976 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2978 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2979 buttonized id: links
2981 New function notmuch-show-advance
2983 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2984 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2985 be bound to SPC with:
2987 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2989 Various performance improvements
2994 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2995 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2998 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2999 ===========================
3004 Fix crash in python bindings
3006 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3007 for some, but not all users.
3009 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3010 ===========================
3015 Fix `--help` argument
3017 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3018 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3019 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3021 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3022 =========================
3024 New build and testing features
3025 ------------------------------
3027 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3028 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3029 prerequisites is improved.
3031 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3033 New command-line features
3034 -------------------------
3036 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3038 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3039 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3042 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3044 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3045 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3046 favour of using stdout.
3048 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3050 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3051 limit the number of results shown.
3053 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3055 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3056 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3059 New emacs UI features
3060 ---------------------
3062 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3064 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3065 starting with "tag:".
3067 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3069 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3070 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3072 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3074 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3076 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3078 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3079 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3084 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3086 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3088 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3089 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3090 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3091 requires a database rebuild:
3093 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3094 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3096 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3098 New collection of add-on tools
3099 ------------------------------
3101 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3102 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3103 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3106 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3108 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3109 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3110 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3112 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3113 ========================
3115 New, general features
3116 ---------------------
3118 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3120 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3121 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3122 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3123 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3124 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3131 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3132 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3134 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3138 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3139 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3140 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3143 Python bindings changes
3144 -----------------------
3146 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3148 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3149 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3150 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3151 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3152 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3153 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3155 Ruby bindings changes
3156 ---------------------
3158 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3159 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3160 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3161 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3166 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3168 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3169 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3171 Reply formatting cleanup
3172 ------------------------
3174 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3175 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3177 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3178 ========================
3180 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3182 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3183 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3184 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3185 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3188 Improved Build system portability
3190 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3191 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3192 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3194 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3196 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3198 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3200 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3201 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3202 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3204 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3205 ========================
3207 Vim interface improvements
3208 --------------------------
3210 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3212 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3213 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3214 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3215 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3216 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3218 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3220 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3221 * fix compose temp file name
3223 Python Bindings changes
3224 -----------------------
3226 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3228 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3229 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3231 Build-System improvements
3232 -------------------------
3234 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3236 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3239 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3240 ==========================
3245 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3247 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3248 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3250 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3251 =======================
3253 New, general features
3254 ---------------------
3256 Folder-based searching
3258 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3259 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3260 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3264 For example, one might use things such as:
3270 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3271 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3273 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3274 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3275 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3276 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3278 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3279 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3280 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3283 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3284 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3286 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3288 Support for PGP/MIME
3290 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3291 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3292 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3294 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3296 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3297 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3299 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3300 notmuch will receive these tags.
3302 New command-line features
3303 -------------------------
3305 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3307 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3308 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3310 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3312 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3313 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3314 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3316 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3318 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3319 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3320 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3321 which parts a signature part applies).
3323 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3325 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3326 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3327 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3328 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3329 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3332 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3334 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3335 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3336 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3337 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3338 by translating it internally to the new call.
3340 Performance improvements
3341 ------------------------
3343 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3345 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3346 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3347 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3349 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3350 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3352 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3354 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3355 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3356 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3358 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3359 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3360 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3361 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3363 Faster initial indexing
3365 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3366 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3367 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3369 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3371 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3372 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3373 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3374 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3376 New emacs-interface features
3377 ----------------------------
3379 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3381 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3382 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3383 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3384 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3385 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3386 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3388 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3390 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3391 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3392 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3393 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3395 User-selectable From address
3397 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3398 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3399 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3400 will prompt for the from address to use.
3402 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3403 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3404 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3406 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3407 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3408 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3411 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3413 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3414 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3416 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3418 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3420 ----- Original Message -----
3422 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3423 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3424 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3425 citations work much like conventional citations.
3427 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3429 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3430 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3431 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3432 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3433 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3435 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3436 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3438 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3440 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3441 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3442 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3444 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3446 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3447 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3448 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3449 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3450 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3452 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3454 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3457 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3459 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3461 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3463 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3466 Vim interface improvements
3467 --------------------------
3469 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3471 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3472 * Implementing archive in show view
3473 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3474 * Add delete commands
3477 Bindings improvements
3478 ---------------------
3480 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3482 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3483 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3485 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3487 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3491 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3492 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3493 `list(Messages)` works now
3494 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3496 These allow, for example:
3498 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3500 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3502 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3508 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3510 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3513 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3515 New build-system features
3516 -------------------------
3518 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3520 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3521 the configure script from some other directory:
3528 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3530 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3531 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3532 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3533 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3534 manual invocation of configure.
3536 New test-suite feature
3537 ----------------------
3539 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3541 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3542 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3543 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3544 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3545 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3548 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3550 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3551 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3552 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3553 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3554 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3555 are updated to take advantage of this.
3557 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3559 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3560 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3561 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3562 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3568 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3570 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3571 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3572 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3574 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3576 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3578 to:user@elsewhere.com
3580 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3582 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3584 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3586 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3587 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3588 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3591 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3592 from the Received headers in some cases
3594 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3595 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3597 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3599 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3601 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3603 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3604 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3605 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3607 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3608 -------------------------
3610 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3612 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3613 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3614 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3616 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3618 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3619 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3620 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3623 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3625 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3626 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3627 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3628 fixed to avoid this bug.
3630 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3632 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3633 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3635 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3636 ========================
3638 New, general features
3639 ---------------------
3641 Maildir-flag synchronization
3643 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3644 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3653 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3655 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3656 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3657 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3658 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3660 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3661 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3662 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3663 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3666 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3668 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3669 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3670 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3672 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3673 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3675 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3676 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3678 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3679 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3680 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3682 New library features
3683 --------------------
3685 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3687 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3688 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3689 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3690 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3692 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3693 message with the new function:
3695 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3697 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3698 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3699 over all available filenames for a given message.
3701 New command-line features
3702 -------------------------
3704 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3706 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3707 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3708 access to the mail store itself.
3710 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3711 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3712 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3713 name of a script containing:
3715 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3717 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3718 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3724 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3726 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3728 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3730 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3731 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3732 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3733 now produces nothing).
3735 Emacs interface improvements
3736 ----------------------------
3738 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3740 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3742 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3744 Display current thread subject in a header line
3746 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3748 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3750 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3751 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3752 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3753 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3754 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3755 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3756 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3758 Vim interface improvements
3759 --------------------------
3761 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3763 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3764 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3770 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3772 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3773 ========================
3775 New command-line features
3776 -------------------------
3778 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3780 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3781 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3782 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3784 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3785 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3786 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3787 scripts. For example:
3789 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3790 <operations-on> "$file"
3793 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3795 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3796 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3797 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3798 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3799 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3800 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3802 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3804 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3805 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3806 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3807 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3809 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3811 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3812 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3813 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3814 default rather than Bcc.
3816 New library features
3817 --------------------
3819 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3821 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3822 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3827 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3829 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3830 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3831 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3832 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3833 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3834 notmuch customize interface.
3836 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3838 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3839 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3840 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3841 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3843 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3845 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3846 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3847 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3848 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3850 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3852 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3853 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3854 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3855 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3856 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3857 notmuch customize interface.
3859 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3861 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3862 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3863 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3864 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3865 notmuch customize interface.
3867 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3869 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3870 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3871 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3872 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3875 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3877 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3878 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3879 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3882 New build-system features
3883 -------------------------
3885 Various portability fixes have been applied
3887 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3888 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3889 more portable than ever before.
3891 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3893 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3894 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3895 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3897 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3898 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3899 automatically run ldconfig.
3901 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3902 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3903 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3905 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3906 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3907 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3908 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3910 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3912 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3913 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3914 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3915 used in the resulting Makefile.
3917 New test-suite features
3918 -----------------------
3920 New modularization of test suite
3922 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3923 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3924 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3925 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3926 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3927 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3928 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3929 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3931 New testing of emacs interface
3933 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3934 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3935 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3936 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3937 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3938 database via the FCC setting.
3943 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3945 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3946 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3947 persistent error of the form:
3949 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3951 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3952 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3954 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3956 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3957 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3958 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3960 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3962 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3963 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3964 parsing the notmuch results).
3966 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3968 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3971 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3972 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3973 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3978 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3980 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3981 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3982 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3983 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3984 the emacs interface.
3986 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3988 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3989 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3990 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3992 Python-binding fixes
3993 --------------------
3995 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3997 Debian-specific fixes
3998 ---------------------
4000 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4002 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4003 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4004 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4007 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4008 ==========================
4013 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4015 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4016 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4017 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4018 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4020 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4022 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4023 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4024 want notmuch to crash.
4029 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4031 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4032 directory does not exist
4037 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4039 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4040 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4042 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4043 ========================
4045 New command-line features
4046 -------------------------
4048 User-configurable tags for new messages
4050 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4051 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4052 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4053 to specify this value.
4055 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4057 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4058 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4059 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4061 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4063 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4064 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4066 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4068 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4069 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4070 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4071 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4072 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4075 Indication of author names that match a search
4077 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4078 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4079 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4080 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4081 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4082 messages in the thread are listed first.
4084 New: Python bindings
4085 --------------------
4087 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4088 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4089 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4090 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4092 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4093 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4094 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4097 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4098 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4099 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4101 Emacs interface improvements
4102 ----------------------------
4104 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4106 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4107 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4108 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4109 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4110 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4111 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4112 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4113 but without any of the disadvantages).
4115 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4116 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4117 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4120 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4121 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4122 instead running something like:
4124 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4126 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4127 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4128 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4131 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4133 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4134 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4135 tweaked by the user.
4137 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4138 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4139 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4142 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4143 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4144 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4147 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4149 This support currently relies on an external program,
4150 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4151 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4152 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4153 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4154 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4157 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4158 notmuch) is available via:
4160 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4162 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4163 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4164 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4166 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4168 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4169 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4170 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4171 making this automatic in a future release.
4173 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4175 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4176 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4177 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4178 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4179 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4180 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4183 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4185 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4186 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4187 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4189 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4191 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4192 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4193 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4195 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4196 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4197 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4198 other representation.
4200 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4201 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4204 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4206 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4207 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4208 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4210 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4211 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4212 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4214 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4216 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4217 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4218 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4219 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4220 to display the search result.
4222 More flexible handling of header visibility
4224 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4225 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4226 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4227 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4228 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4229 with the 'h' keybinding.
4231 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4232 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4233 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4235 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4237 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4239 Customizable formatting of search results
4241 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4242 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4243 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4245 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4247 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4249 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4254 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4256 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4257 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4258 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4259 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4265 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4267 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4268 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4270 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4272 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4273 accept are now all accepted.
4278 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4280 Better display of output from failed tests
4282 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4283 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4285 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4286 ========================
4288 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4289 detailed release notes this time!
4291 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4292 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4294 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4295 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4296 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4297 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4304 Better guessing of From: header
4306 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4307 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4308 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4309 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4310 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4313 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4315 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4316 guaranteed to match all messages.
4318 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4320 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4321 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4322 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4323 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4324 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4327 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4330 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4331 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4332 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4333 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4338 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4340 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4341 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4342 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4343 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4345 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4347 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4349 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4350 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4351 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4353 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4355 Previously, the user might see:
4357 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4361 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4363 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4364 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4365 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4366 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4368 Emacs client features
4369 ---------------------
4371 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4373 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4374 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4375 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4376 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4377 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4379 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4382 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4383 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4384 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4385 search with the '*' binding.
4387 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4389 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4390 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4393 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4395 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4396 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4397 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4399 Build-system features
4400 ---------------------
4402 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4404 Add support to configure for many standard options
4406 We include actual support for:
4408 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4410 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4412 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4413 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4415 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4416 separate "make install-emacs"
4418 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4420 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4421 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4422 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4424 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4427 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4428 ========================
4430 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4432 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4433 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4435 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4436 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4437 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4438 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4439 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4440 tags from messages in a thread.
4447 indent-tabs-mode: nil