1 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
2 ===========================
7 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
10 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
13 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
14 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
19 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
21 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
22 ===========================
27 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
33 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
38 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
43 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
48 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
49 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
51 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
52 ===========================
57 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
58 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
59 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
61 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
62 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
63 database in a pre-new hook.
65 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
66 default worked only in "notmuch config".
71 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
72 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
74 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
75 =========================
80 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
81 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
82 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
83 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
84 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
85 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
86 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
87 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
88 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
89 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
90 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
95 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
96 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
98 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
99 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
100 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
101 - `notmuch_config_get`
103 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
104 now exposed (and generalized).
106 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
107 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
108 session has been fixed.
110 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
111 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
116 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
117 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
119 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
120 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
125 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
126 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
127 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
128 when prompting for senders.
130 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
131 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
134 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
136 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
138 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
139 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
140 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
141 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
142 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
143 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
144 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
146 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
147 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
149 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
150 you should change it to:
151 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
153 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
154 ===========================
159 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
164 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
166 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
167 ===========================
172 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
177 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
182 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
184 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
185 ===========================
190 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
191 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
193 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
194 ===========================
199 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
204 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
205 with a C++ header for some compilers.
207 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
209 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
210 =========================
215 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
216 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
217 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
219 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
221 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
223 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
225 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
228 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
230 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
231 search, show and tree mode)
233 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
236 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
239 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
240 always be newest first.
245 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
246 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
247 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
253 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
254 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
255 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
256 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
258 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
259 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
260 non-status providing versions.
262 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
263 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
265 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
266 promised in the documentation.
271 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
272 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
273 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
278 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
279 development version).
284 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
289 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
291 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
292 =========================
297 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
298 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
299 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
302 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
308 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
309 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
310 notmuch-properties(7)).
315 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
316 has protected headers (see
317 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
318 notmuch-properties(7)).
323 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
325 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
326 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
332 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
335 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
336 ===========================
341 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
343 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
348 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
350 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
351 ===========================
356 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
357 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
359 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
360 ===========================
365 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
367 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
368 =========================
373 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
374 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
377 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
378 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
379 the set of headers to be indexed.
381 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
384 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
385 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
386 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
389 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
390 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
391 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
393 Command Line Interface
394 ----------------------
396 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
399 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
401 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
402 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
403 more details about what is included there. This status includes
404 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
409 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
410 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
412 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
414 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
416 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
418 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
420 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
423 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
425 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
426 and may be removed in a future release.
428 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
434 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
436 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
437 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
442 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
443 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
444 cryptography support.
449 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
450 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
451 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
453 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
454 ===========================
456 Command line interface
457 ----------------------
459 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
460 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
462 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
463 ===========================
468 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
469 by message properties.
474 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
476 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
477 ===========================
482 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
487 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
488 now needed to build this documentation.
490 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
491 ===========================
496 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
497 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
499 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
500 =========================
507 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
508 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
509 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
510 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
511 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
514 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
516 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
517 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
518 correct encoding for such messages.
520 Command Line Interface
521 ----------------------
523 Support relative database paths
525 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
526 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
527 to $HOME of the invoking user.
532 Improve stderr handling
534 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
535 needed on e.g. macOS.
537 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
539 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
544 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
545 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
551 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
552 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
558 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
559 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
562 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
563 =========================
568 Add support for thread:{} queries
570 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
571 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
572 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
574 Command Line Interface
575 ----------------------
577 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
579 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
581 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
583 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
584 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
585 does not have to be available during message receipt.
590 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
596 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
597 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
599 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
600 ===========================
605 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
607 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
608 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
609 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
611 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
613 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
614 related abort in `notmuch show`.
616 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
617 ===========================
622 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
623 better late than never.
626 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
627 =========================
629 Command Line Interface
630 ----------------------
632 Support for re-indexing existing messages
634 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
635 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
636 change the way specific messages are indexed.
638 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
639 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
640 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
642 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
644 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
646 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
648 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
649 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
650 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
651 the setting of `new.tags`.
653 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
655 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
657 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
659 This inserts into the top level folder.
661 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
663 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
665 New option --output=address for notmuch address
667 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
669 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
671 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
672 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
673 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
675 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
680 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
682 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
683 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
684 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
685 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
686 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
687 config set index.decrypt true".
689 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
690 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
691 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
692 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
693 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
694 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
695 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
696 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
698 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
699 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
700 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
701 this feature without considering the security of your index.
706 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
708 Use make-process when available
710 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
711 notmuch command without using temporary files.
716 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
718 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
719 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
720 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
721 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
723 New functions to count files
725 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
726 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
728 New function to remove properties
730 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
731 drop all properties with a common pattern:
732 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
734 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
736 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
737 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
738 possibility of NULL was not documented.
740 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
742 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
743 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
744 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
745 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
746 operator may decide to change from message to message.
753 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
754 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
755 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
761 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
763 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
764 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
766 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
768 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
770 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
772 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
777 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
778 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
780 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
781 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
782 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
783 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
784 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
785 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
790 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
792 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
793 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
794 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
795 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
797 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
798 ===========================
803 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
804 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
807 Command Line Interface
808 ----------------------
810 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
811 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
814 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
815 ===========================
817 Command Line Interface
818 ----------------------
820 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
821 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
826 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
829 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
830 ===========================
835 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
838 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
839 =========================
844 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
846 Skip HTML tags when indexing
848 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
850 Command Line Interface
851 ----------------------
853 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
855 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
860 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
862 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
863 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
866 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
871 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
873 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
874 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
876 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
878 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
879 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
882 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
884 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
886 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
888 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
889 ===========================
891 Command Line Interface
892 ----------------------
894 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
899 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
901 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
902 ===========================
907 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
909 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
910 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
913 Command Line Interface
914 ----------------------
916 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
918 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
920 Fix bug in dump header
922 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
923 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
924 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
929 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
931 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
932 =========================
937 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
939 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
942 Command Line Interface
943 ----------------------
945 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
947 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
948 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
949 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
951 New default output format to 3
953 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
954 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
955 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
956 default format changes.
961 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
963 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
964 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
965 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
966 or tree view to resume.
968 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
969 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
970 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
973 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
974 they were when you postponed in the final message.
978 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
979 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
980 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
981 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
982 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
986 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
987 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
988 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
989 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
990 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
991 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
995 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
996 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
998 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1000 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1001 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1002 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1003 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1004 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1005 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1006 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1007 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1010 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1012 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1013 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1014 only tagged the current thread.)
1016 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1018 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1019 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1020 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1022 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1024 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1025 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1026 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1027 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1028 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1029 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1030 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1032 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1034 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1035 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1036 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1041 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1043 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1046 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1048 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1051 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1052 ===========================
1057 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1059 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1060 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1061 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1064 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1065 ===========================
1067 Command Line Interface
1068 ----------------------
1070 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1075 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1077 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1078 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1079 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1081 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1082 ===========================
1087 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1088 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1090 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1091 ===========================
1093 Command Line Interface
1094 ----------------------
1096 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1098 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1099 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1100 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1105 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1107 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1108 ===========================
1110 Command Line Interface
1111 ----------------------
1113 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1118 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1120 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1121 ===========================
1126 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1128 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1129 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1130 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1132 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1134 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1136 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1137 ===========================
1142 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1144 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1149 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1151 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1152 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1153 the original colours.
1155 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1156 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1158 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1160 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1161 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1162 bug, and hence the test.
1164 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1165 =========================
1167 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1168 ---------------------
1170 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1172 Support for single argument date: queries
1174 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1176 Support for blocking opens
1178 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1179 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1181 Support for named queries
1183 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1184 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1185 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1190 Message property API
1192 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1193 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1194 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1195 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1197 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1199 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1204 Support for compile time options
1206 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1207 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1210 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1212 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1213 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1214 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1215 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1216 scripts to ignore it.
1221 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1223 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1224 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1225 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1227 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1228 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1229 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1230 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1231 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1232 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1233 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1235 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1236 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1239 Make internal address completion customizable
1241 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1242 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1243 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1244 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1247 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1249 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1250 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1251 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1252 completion for the current buffer.
1254 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1255 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1256 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1260 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1261 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1262 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1263 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1264 will be added instead.
1266 Face customization is easier
1268 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1269 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1270 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1271 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1273 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1278 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1283 Go bindings moved to contrib
1285 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1287 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1289 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1290 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1292 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1294 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1295 ===========================
1302 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1303 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1305 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1307 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1309 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1310 ===========================
1315 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1317 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1322 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1327 Use `env` to locate perl.
1332 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1334 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1336 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1338 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1340 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1341 =========================
1348 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1349 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1351 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1353 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1354 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1355 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1360 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1361 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1362 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1364 Command Line Interface
1365 ----------------------
1367 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1369 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1374 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1379 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1381 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1382 parts are now included in replies.
1384 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1385 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1386 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1387 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1389 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1391 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1393 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1395 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1396 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1397 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1398 forwards only the current message.
1400 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1402 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1403 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1404 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1405 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1406 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1407 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1408 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1409 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1412 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1413 longer generate empty buffers
1415 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1416 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1417 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1418 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1419 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1421 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1423 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1426 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1428 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1431 Address completion improvements
1433 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1434 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1435 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1436 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1437 interactive address completion.
1439 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1441 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1442 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1443 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1448 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1449 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1450 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1456 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1457 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1458 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1459 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1460 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1461 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1463 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1464 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1465 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1466 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1467 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1468 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1470 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1471 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1473 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1474 =========================
1479 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1482 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1484 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1485 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1486 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1488 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1489 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1491 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1492 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1493 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1495 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1497 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1498 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1499 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1500 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1501 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1502 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1507 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1508 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1511 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1512 option to configure.
1514 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1516 Command Line Interface
1517 ----------------------
1519 Database revision tracking
1521 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1522 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1523 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1524 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1526 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1528 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1529 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1530 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1531 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1532 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1533 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1534 manual page for further information.
1539 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1541 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1542 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1544 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1546 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1547 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1548 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1550 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1552 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1554 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1555 customization as well.
1557 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1559 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1561 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1563 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1565 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1566 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1567 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1568 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1570 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1572 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1573 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1574 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1575 this variable to 10000.
1580 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1581 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1583 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1585 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1586 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1587 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1588 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1589 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1590 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1591 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1592 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1593 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1596 Database revision tracking
1598 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1599 query parser and the new function
1600 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1602 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1604 Deprecated functions
1606 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1607 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1608 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1609 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1614 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1616 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1617 ===========================
1622 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1624 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1625 ===========================
1630 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1632 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1633 =========================
1635 Command-Line Interface
1636 ----------------------
1638 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1640 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1641 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1642 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1644 Path to gpg is now configurable
1646 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1647 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1652 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1654 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1659 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1664 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1669 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1671 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1672 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1674 New error logging facility
1676 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1677 output formerly printed to stderr.
1679 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1681 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1683 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1685 Fix for rounding of seconds
1690 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1692 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1693 documentation has been removed.
1695 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1697 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1698 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1703 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1704 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1705 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1710 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1711 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1712 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1713 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1714 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1715 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1718 git checkout config origin/config
1720 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1722 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1723 =========================
1728 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1729 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1730 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1731 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1732 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1733 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1734 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1736 Command-Line Interface
1737 ----------------------
1739 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1741 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1742 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1743 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1744 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1745 script callers should still check the return value.
1747 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1749 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1750 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1751 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1752 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1753 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1754 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1755 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1757 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1759 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1760 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1761 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1763 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1765 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1766 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1767 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1768 currently unmaintained.
1770 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1772 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1773 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1774 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1775 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1777 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1779 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1780 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1781 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1782 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1783 count of duplicate addresses.
1788 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1790 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1791 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1792 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1795 Improved handling of the unread tag
1797 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1798 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1799 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1800 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1801 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1802 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1803 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1805 Expanded default saved search settings
1807 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1808 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1810 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1812 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1813 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1814 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1816 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1818 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1819 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1820 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1821 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1822 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1823 the variable for details.
1828 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1830 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1831 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1832 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1833 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1835 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1837 Previously, library users were required to call
1838 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1839 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1840 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1841 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1842 too out of date for that API.
1844 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1846 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1847 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1848 atomic section will be aborted.
1850 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1851 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1853 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1855 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1856 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1857 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1858 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1859 messages into the same thread.
1864 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1865 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1866 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1867 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1868 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1869 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1874 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1875 from the config file. Use something like:
1879 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1880 "footer": "</body></html>",
1889 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1894 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1895 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1896 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1898 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1899 ===========================
1904 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1906 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1908 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1910 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1911 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1913 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1915 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1918 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1919 ===========================
1921 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1926 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1928 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1930 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1932 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1934 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1940 Use --quick when starting emacs
1942 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1944 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1946 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1948 Command-Line Interface
1949 ----------------------
1951 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1952 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1957 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1959 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1960 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1962 Fix for phrase indexing
1964 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1965 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1966 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1971 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1973 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1974 unintentionally removed.
1976 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1977 =========================
1982 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1983 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1984 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1985 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1986 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1987 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1988 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1989 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1990 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1996 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1998 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1999 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2000 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2001 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2002 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2003 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2004 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2005 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2007 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2009 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2010 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2011 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2012 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2015 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2017 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2018 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2019 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2020 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2021 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2022 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2023 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2028 Notmuch database upgrade
2030 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2031 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2032 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2033 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2034 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2035 released version of Notmuch before now.
2037 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2039 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2040 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2041 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2042 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2044 Message header parsing changes
2046 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2047 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2048 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2049 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2050 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2051 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2053 Command-Line Interface
2054 ----------------------
2056 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2058 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2060 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2062 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2064 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2066 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2067 user does not want it.
2069 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2071 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2072 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2073 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2074 support formatted output.
2076 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2078 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2079 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2080 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2088 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2089 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2090 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2091 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2092 `~/.emacs` with these.
2094 Changed format for saved searches
2096 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2097 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2098 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2099 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2102 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2103 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2104 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2105 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2107 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2108 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2109 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2111 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2112 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2113 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2114 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2115 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2117 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2119 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2120 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2121 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2123 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2125 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2126 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2127 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2128 message had been unread).
2130 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2131 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2132 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2133 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2135 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2136 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2137 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2139 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2140 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2141 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2142 to tags already present.
2146 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2147 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2148 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2149 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2150 these differ from each other.
2151 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2153 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2155 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2156 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2157 for these Emacs versions.
2159 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2161 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2162 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2164 Bug fixes for sender identities
2166 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2167 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2168 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2170 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2172 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2173 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2174 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2175 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2177 Reply pushes mark before signature
2179 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2180 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2181 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2183 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2185 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2186 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2192 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2193 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2195 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2196 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2197 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2198 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2200 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2201 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2202 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2203 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2204 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2206 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2208 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2209 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2211 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2212 =========================
2214 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2215 ---------------------------------------
2217 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2218 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2219 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2220 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2221 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2222 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2223 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2227 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2228 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2230 Command-Line Interface
2231 ----------------------
2233 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2235 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2236 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2237 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2238 print for each message.
2240 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2241 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2242 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2243 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2245 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2247 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2248 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2249 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2251 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2253 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2254 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2255 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2256 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2258 `notmuch compact` command
2260 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2261 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2262 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2263 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2264 move the compacted database into place.
2269 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2271 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2272 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2273 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2274 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2275 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2276 and multiple threads.
2278 Using `notmuch-tree`
2280 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2282 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2283 search, show and tree mode itself)
2285 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2288 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2289 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2291 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2293 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2294 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2295 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2296 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2297 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2298 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2299 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2301 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2303 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2304 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2305 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2306 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2307 thread when the search was performed.
2309 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2311 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2312 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2313 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2315 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2317 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2318 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2321 Built-in help improvements
2323 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2324 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2325 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2327 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2329 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2330 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2331 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2333 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2335 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2336 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2338 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2340 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2341 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2342 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2343 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2345 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2347 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2348 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2349 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2350 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2352 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2354 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2355 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2356 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2358 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2360 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2361 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2362 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2364 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2366 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2367 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2368 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2369 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2370 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2372 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2374 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2375 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2376 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2377 the body part of the message.
2382 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2383 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2384 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2386 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2387 =========================
2389 Command-Line Interface
2390 ----------------------
2392 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2394 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2395 folder and notmuch index.
2397 `notmuch count --batch` option
2399 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2400 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2402 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2404 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2405 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2406 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2409 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2411 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2412 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2413 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2414 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2415 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2418 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2420 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2421 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2423 Top level option to specify configuration file
2425 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2426 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2428 Bash command-line completion
2430 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2431 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2432 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2433 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2434 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2435 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2436 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2437 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2438 bash-completion package.
2440 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2445 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2447 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2448 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2449 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2450 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2451 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2452 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2453 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2454 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2456 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2458 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2459 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2460 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2462 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2464 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2465 previous thread in the search results.
2467 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2469 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2470 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2472 Faster search and show
2474 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2475 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2476 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2477 threads should show faster.
2481 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2482 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2483 in question was now removed from this release.
2488 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2489 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2494 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2496 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2497 ===========================
2502 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2504 Internal test framework changes
2505 -------------------------------
2507 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2508 being unimplemented.
2510 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2511 ===========================
2513 Internal test framework changes
2514 -------------------------------
2516 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2517 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2519 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2520 =========================
2525 Date range search support
2527 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2528 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2529 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2530 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2531 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2534 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2536 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2537 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2538 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2539 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2540 but may be removed in a future release.
2542 Command-Line Interface
2543 ----------------------
2545 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2547 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2548 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2550 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2552 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2553 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2554 officially deprecated.
2556 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2558 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2559 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2560 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2562 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2564 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2565 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2568 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2569 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2570 dump/restore format.
2572 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2574 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2575 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2576 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2578 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2580 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2581 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2582 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2584 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2586 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2587 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2588 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2589 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2594 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2596 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2597 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2598 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2599 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2601 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2603 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2604 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2605 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2606 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2607 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2608 the behavior of this, see
2609 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2610 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2612 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2613 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2614 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2616 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2618 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2619 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2622 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2624 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2625 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2626 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2627 simply displayed in place of the message.
2629 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2631 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2632 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2634 Improved text/calendar content handling
2636 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2637 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2638 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2639 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2641 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2643 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2644 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2645 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2646 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2648 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2650 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2651 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2652 for HTML email containing images.
2654 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2656 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2658 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2660 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2663 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2665 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2666 the point where it was.
2668 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2670 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2671 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2672 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2673 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2674 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2676 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2678 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2679 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2680 thread instead of the message id.
2682 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2683 -----------------------------
2685 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2686 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2687 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2688 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2689 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2690 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2691 further details and installation.
2696 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2698 Internal test framework changes
2699 -------------------------------
2701 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2703 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2704 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2705 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2706 can result in buggy behavior.
2708 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2709 =========================
2714 Maildir tag synchronization
2716 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2717 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2718 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2719 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2720 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2721 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2724 Command-Line Interface
2725 ----------------------
2727 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2728 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2729 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2730 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2731 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2737 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2739 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2741 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2742 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2743 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2745 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2747 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2748 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2749 span multiple lines.
2751 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2753 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2754 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2755 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2756 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2757 inside the result or message.
2759 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2761 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2762 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2764 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2765 user-specified formatting
2767 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2768 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2769 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2770 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2771 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2773 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2774 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2776 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2777 ===========================
2782 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2783 compilation error for this contrib package.
2785 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2786 ===========================
2791 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2793 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2794 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2795 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2796 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2798 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2799 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2802 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2803 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2804 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2805 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2808 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2810 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2813 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2814 =========================
2816 Command-Line Interface
2817 ----------------------
2821 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2822 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2823 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2824 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2826 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2827 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2828 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2829 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2833 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2834 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2836 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2837 tag in your query, for example:
2839 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2841 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2842 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2844 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2845 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2847 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2849 Raw show format changes
2851 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2852 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2853 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2854 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2855 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2856 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2857 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2858 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2860 Listing configuration items
2862 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2868 Changes to tagging interface
2870 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2871 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2872 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2873 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2874 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2875 for more information.
2877 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2878 may need to update in custom configurations.
2880 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2882 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2883 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2884 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2885 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2888 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2889 -----------------------------
2891 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2892 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2893 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2894 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2895 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2896 contrib/ from now on.
2901 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2902 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2904 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2905 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2907 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2908 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2909 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2911 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2912 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2914 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2915 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2916 returning the new database object or directory object.
2923 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2924 compatible with go 1.
2926 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2927 =========================
2929 Command-Line Interface
2930 ----------------------
2934 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2935 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2936 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2937 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2939 Mail store folder/file ignore
2941 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2942 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2943 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2945 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2946 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2948 Unified help and manual pages
2950 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2951 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2954 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2956 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2957 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2965 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2966 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2967 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2968 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2970 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2972 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2973 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2975 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2978 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2979 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2980 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2982 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2984 should be changed to:
2986 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2988 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2990 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2991 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2993 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2995 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2996 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2997 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2998 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2999 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3000 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3004 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3005 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3006 of Mailing List Archives.
3008 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3010 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3011 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3014 Show view archiving key binding changes
3016 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3017 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3018 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3019 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3020 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3023 Support text/calendar MIME type
3025 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3028 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3030 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3031 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3032 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3033 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3035 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3037 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3038 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3039 messages blue by default in the search view.
3043 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3044 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3051 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3054 Python bindings changes
3055 -----------------------
3057 Python 3.2 compatibility
3059 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3061 Added missing unicode conversions
3063 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3064 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3065 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3070 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3072 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3073 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3074 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3075 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3076 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3078 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3079 ===========================
3084 Fix error handling in python bindings
3086 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3087 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3088 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3089 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3091 Quote MML tags in replies
3093 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3094 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3095 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3096 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3097 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3098 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3099 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3100 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3102 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3103 =========================
3105 Command-Line Interface
3106 ----------------------
3110 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3111 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3112 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3113 importing new messages into the database.
3115 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3117 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3118 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3119 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3124 Automatic tag query optimization
3126 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3127 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3128 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3130 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3132 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3133 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3134 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3139 Reduction of memory leaks
3141 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3142 and fixed in this release.
3149 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3150 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3151 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3154 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3156 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3157 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3158 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3161 Improvements in saved search management
3163 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3164 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3165 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3167 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3169 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3170 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3171 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3173 New face for crypto parts headers
3175 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3176 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3177 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3180 Use space as default thousands separator
3182 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3183 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3184 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3186 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3187 buttonized id: links
3189 New function notmuch-show-advance
3191 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3192 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3193 be bound to SPC with:
3195 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3197 Various performance improvements
3202 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3203 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3206 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3207 ===========================
3212 Fix crash in python bindings
3214 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3215 for some, but not all users.
3217 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3218 ===========================
3223 Fix `--help` argument
3225 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3226 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3227 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3229 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3230 =========================
3232 New build and testing features
3233 ------------------------------
3235 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3236 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3237 prerequisites is improved.
3239 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3241 New command-line features
3242 -------------------------
3244 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3246 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3247 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3250 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3252 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3253 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3254 favour of using stdout.
3256 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3258 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3259 limit the number of results shown.
3261 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3263 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3264 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3267 New emacs UI features
3268 ---------------------
3270 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3272 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3273 starting with "tag:".
3275 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3277 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3278 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3280 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3282 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3284 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3286 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3287 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3292 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3294 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3296 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3297 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3298 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3299 requires a database rebuild:
3301 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3302 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3304 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3306 New collection of add-on tools
3307 ------------------------------
3309 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3310 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3311 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3314 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3316 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3317 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3318 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3320 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3321 ========================
3323 New, general features
3324 ---------------------
3326 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3328 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3329 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3330 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3331 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3332 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3339 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3340 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3342 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3346 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3347 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3348 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3351 Python bindings changes
3352 -----------------------
3354 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3356 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3357 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3358 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3359 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3360 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3361 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3363 Ruby bindings changes
3364 ---------------------
3366 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3367 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3368 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3369 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3374 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3376 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3377 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3379 Reply formatting cleanup
3380 ------------------------
3382 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3383 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3385 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3386 ========================
3388 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3390 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3391 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3392 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3393 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3396 Improved Build system portability
3398 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3399 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3400 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3402 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3404 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3406 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3408 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3409 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3410 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3412 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3413 ========================
3415 Vim interface improvements
3416 --------------------------
3418 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3420 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3421 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3422 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3423 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3424 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3426 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3428 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3429 * fix compose temp file name
3431 Python Bindings changes
3432 -----------------------
3434 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3436 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3437 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3439 Build-System improvements
3440 -------------------------
3442 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3444 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3447 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3448 ==========================
3453 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3455 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3456 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3458 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3459 =======================
3461 New, general features
3462 ---------------------
3464 Folder-based searching
3466 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3467 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3468 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3472 For example, one might use things such as:
3478 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3479 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3481 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3482 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3483 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3484 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3486 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3487 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3488 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3491 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3492 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3494 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3496 Support for PGP/MIME
3498 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3499 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3500 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3502 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3504 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3505 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3507 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3508 notmuch will receive these tags.
3510 New command-line features
3511 -------------------------
3513 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3515 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3516 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3518 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3520 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3521 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3522 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3524 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3526 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3527 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3528 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3529 which parts a signature part applies).
3531 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3533 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3534 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3535 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3536 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3537 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3540 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3542 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3543 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3544 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3545 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3546 by translating it internally to the new call.
3548 Performance improvements
3549 ------------------------
3551 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3553 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3554 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3555 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3557 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3558 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3560 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3562 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3563 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3564 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3566 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3567 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3568 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3569 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3571 Faster initial indexing
3573 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3574 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3575 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3577 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3579 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3580 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3581 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3582 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3584 New emacs-interface features
3585 ----------------------------
3587 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3589 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3590 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3591 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3592 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3593 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3594 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3596 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3598 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3599 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3600 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3601 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3603 User-selectable From address
3605 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3606 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3607 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3608 will prompt for the from address to use.
3610 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3611 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3612 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3614 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3615 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3616 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3619 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3621 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3622 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3624 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3626 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3628 ----- Original Message -----
3630 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3631 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3632 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3633 citations work much like conventional citations.
3635 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3637 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3638 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3639 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3640 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3641 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3643 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3644 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3646 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3648 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3649 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3650 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3652 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3654 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3655 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3656 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3657 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3658 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3660 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3662 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3665 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3667 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3669 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3671 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3674 Vim interface improvements
3675 --------------------------
3677 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3679 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3680 * Implementing archive in show view
3681 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3682 * Add delete commands
3685 Bindings improvements
3686 ---------------------
3688 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3690 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3691 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3693 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3695 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3699 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3700 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3701 `list(Messages)` works now
3702 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3704 These allow, for example:
3706 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3708 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3710 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3716 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3718 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3721 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3723 New build-system features
3724 -------------------------
3726 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3728 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3729 the configure script from some other directory:
3736 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3738 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3739 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3740 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3741 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3742 manual invocation of configure.
3744 New test-suite feature
3745 ----------------------
3747 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3749 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3750 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3751 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3752 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3753 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3756 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3758 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3759 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3760 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3761 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3762 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3763 are updated to take advantage of this.
3765 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3767 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3768 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3769 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3770 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3776 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3778 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3779 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3780 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3782 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3784 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3786 to:user@elsewhere.com
3788 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3790 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3792 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3794 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3795 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3796 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3799 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3800 from the Received headers in some cases
3802 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3803 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3805 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3807 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3809 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3811 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3812 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3813 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3815 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3816 -------------------------
3818 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3820 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3821 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3822 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3824 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3826 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3827 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3828 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3831 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3833 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3834 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3835 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3836 fixed to avoid this bug.
3838 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3840 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3841 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3843 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3844 ========================
3846 New, general features
3847 ---------------------
3849 Maildir-flag synchronization
3851 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3852 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3861 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3863 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3864 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3865 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3866 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3868 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3869 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3870 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3871 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3874 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3876 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3877 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3878 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3880 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3881 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3883 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3884 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3886 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3887 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3888 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3890 New library features
3891 --------------------
3893 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3895 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3896 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3897 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3898 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3900 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3901 message with the new function:
3903 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3905 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3906 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3907 over all available filenames for a given message.
3909 New command-line features
3910 -------------------------
3912 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3914 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3915 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3916 access to the mail store itself.
3918 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3919 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3920 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3921 name of a script containing:
3923 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3925 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3926 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3932 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3934 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3936 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3938 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3939 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3940 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3941 now produces nothing).
3943 Emacs interface improvements
3944 ----------------------------
3946 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3948 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3950 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3952 Display current thread subject in a header line
3954 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3956 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3958 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3959 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3960 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3961 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3962 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3963 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3964 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3966 Vim interface improvements
3967 --------------------------
3969 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3971 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3972 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3978 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3980 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3981 ========================
3983 New command-line features
3984 -------------------------
3986 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3988 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3989 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3990 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3992 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3993 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3994 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3995 scripts. For example:
3997 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3998 <operations-on> "$file"
4001 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4003 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4004 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4005 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4006 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4007 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4008 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4010 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4012 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4013 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4014 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4015 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4017 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4019 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4020 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4021 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4022 default rather than Bcc.
4024 New library features
4025 --------------------
4027 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4029 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4030 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4035 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4037 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4038 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4039 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4040 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4041 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4042 notmuch customize interface.
4044 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4046 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4047 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4048 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4049 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4051 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4053 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4054 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4055 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4056 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4058 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4060 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4061 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4062 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4063 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4064 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4065 notmuch customize interface.
4067 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4069 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4070 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4071 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4072 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4073 notmuch customize interface.
4075 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4077 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4078 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4079 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4080 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4083 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4085 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4086 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4087 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4090 New build-system features
4091 -------------------------
4093 Various portability fixes have been applied
4095 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4096 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4097 more portable than ever before.
4099 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4101 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4102 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4103 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4105 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4106 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4107 automatically run ldconfig.
4109 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4110 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4111 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4113 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4114 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4115 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4116 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4118 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4120 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4121 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4122 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4123 used in the resulting Makefile.
4125 New test-suite features
4126 -----------------------
4128 New modularization of test suite
4130 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4131 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4132 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4133 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4134 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4135 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4136 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4137 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4139 New testing of emacs interface
4141 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4142 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4143 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4144 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4145 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4146 database via the FCC setting.
4151 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4153 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4154 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4155 persistent error of the form:
4157 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4159 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4160 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4162 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4164 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4165 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4166 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4168 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4170 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4171 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4172 parsing the notmuch results).
4174 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4176 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4179 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4180 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4181 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4186 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4188 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4189 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4190 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4191 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4192 the emacs interface.
4194 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4196 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4197 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4198 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4200 Python-binding fixes
4201 --------------------
4203 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4205 Debian-specific fixes
4206 ---------------------
4208 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4210 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4211 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4212 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4215 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4216 ==========================
4221 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4223 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4224 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4225 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4226 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4228 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4230 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4231 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4232 want notmuch to crash.
4237 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4239 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4240 directory does not exist
4245 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4247 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4248 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4250 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4251 ========================
4253 New command-line features
4254 -------------------------
4256 User-configurable tags for new messages
4258 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4259 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4260 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4261 to specify this value.
4263 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4265 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4266 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4267 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4269 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4271 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4272 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4274 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4276 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4277 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4278 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4279 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4280 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4283 Indication of author names that match a search
4285 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4286 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4287 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4288 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4289 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4290 messages in the thread are listed first.
4292 New: Python bindings
4293 --------------------
4295 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4296 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4297 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4298 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4300 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4301 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4302 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4305 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4306 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4307 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4309 Emacs interface improvements
4310 ----------------------------
4312 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4314 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4315 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4316 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4317 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4318 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4319 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4320 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4321 but without any of the disadvantages).
4323 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4324 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4325 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4328 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4329 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4330 instead running something like:
4332 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4334 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4335 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4336 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4339 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4341 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4342 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4343 tweaked by the user.
4345 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4346 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4347 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4350 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4351 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4352 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4355 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4357 This support currently relies on an external program,
4358 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4359 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4360 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4361 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4362 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4365 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4366 notmuch) is available via:
4368 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4370 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4371 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4372 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4374 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4376 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4377 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4378 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4379 making this automatic in a future release.
4381 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4383 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4384 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4385 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4386 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4387 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4388 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4391 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4393 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4394 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4395 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4397 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4399 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4400 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4401 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4403 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4404 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4405 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4406 other representation.
4408 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4409 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4412 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4414 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4415 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4416 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4418 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4419 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4420 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4422 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4424 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4425 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4426 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4427 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4428 to display the search result.
4430 More flexible handling of header visibility
4432 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4433 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4434 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4435 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4436 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4437 with the 'h' keybinding.
4439 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4440 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4441 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4443 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4445 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4447 Customizable formatting of search results
4449 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4450 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4451 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4453 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4455 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4457 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4462 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4464 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4465 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4466 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4467 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4473 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4475 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4476 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4478 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4480 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4481 accept are now all accepted.
4486 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4488 Better display of output from failed tests
4490 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4491 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4493 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4494 ========================
4496 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4497 detailed release notes this time!
4499 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4500 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4502 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4503 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4504 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4505 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4512 Better guessing of From: header
4514 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4515 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4516 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4517 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4518 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4521 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4523 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4524 guaranteed to match all messages.
4526 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4528 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4529 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4530 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4531 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4532 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4535 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4538 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4539 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4540 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4541 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4546 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4548 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4549 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4550 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4551 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4553 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4555 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4557 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4558 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4559 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4561 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4563 Previously, the user might see:
4565 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4569 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4571 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4572 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4573 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4574 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4576 Emacs client features
4577 ---------------------
4579 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4581 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4582 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4583 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4584 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4585 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4587 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4590 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4591 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4592 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4593 search with the '*' binding.
4595 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4597 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4598 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4601 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4603 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4604 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4605 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4607 Build-system features
4608 ---------------------
4610 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4612 Add support to configure for many standard options
4614 We include actual support for:
4616 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4618 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4620 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4621 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4623 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4624 separate "make install-emacs"
4626 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4628 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4629 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4630 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4632 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4635 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4636 ========================
4638 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4640 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4641 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4643 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4644 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4645 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4646 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4647 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4648 tags from messages in a thread.
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