1 Notmuch 0.23.6 (UNRELEASED)
2 ===========================
7 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
9 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
10 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
11 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
13 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
14 ===========================
19 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
20 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
22 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
23 ===========================
25 Command Line Interface
26 ----------------------
28 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
30 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
31 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
32 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
37 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
39 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
40 ===========================
42 Command Line Interface
43 ----------------------
45 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
50 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
52 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
53 ===========================
58 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
60 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
61 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
62 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
64 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
66 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
68 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
69 ===========================
74 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
76 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
81 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
83 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
84 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
87 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
88 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
90 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
92 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
93 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
94 bug, and hence the test.
96 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
97 =========================
100 ---------------------
102 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
104 Support for single argument date: queries
106 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
108 Support for blocking opens
110 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
111 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
113 Support for named queries
115 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
116 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
117 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
124 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
125 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
126 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
127 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
129 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
131 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
136 Support for compile time options
138 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
139 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
142 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
144 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
145 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
146 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
147 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
148 scripts to ignore it.
153 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
155 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
156 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
157 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
159 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
160 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
161 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
162 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
163 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
164 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
165 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
167 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
168 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
171 Make internal address completion customizable
173 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
174 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
175 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
176 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
179 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
181 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
182 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
183 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
184 completion for the current buffer.
186 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
187 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
188 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
192 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
193 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
194 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
195 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
196 will be added instead.
198 Face customization is easier
200 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
201 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
202 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
203 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
205 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
210 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
215 Go bindings moved to contrib
217 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
219 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
221 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
222 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
224 The same issue occured with sort modes.
226 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
227 ===========================
234 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
235 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
237 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
239 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
241 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
242 ===========================
247 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
249 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
254 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
259 Use `env` to locate perl.
264 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
266 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
268 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
270 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
272 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
273 =========================
280 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
281 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
283 Limited support for S/MIME messages
285 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
286 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
287 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
292 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
293 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
294 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
296 Command Line Interface
297 ----------------------
299 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
301 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
306 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
311 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
313 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
314 parts are now included in replies.
316 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
317 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
318 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
319 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
321 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
323 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
325 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
327 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
328 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
329 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
330 forwards only the current message.
332 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
334 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
335 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
336 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
337 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
338 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
339 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
340 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
341 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
344 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
345 longer generate empty buffers
347 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
348 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
349 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
350 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
351 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
353 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
355 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
358 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
360 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
363 Address completion improvements
365 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
366 you previously configured one, customize the variable
367 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
368 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
369 interactive address completion.
371 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
373 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
374 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
375 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
380 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
381 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
382 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
388 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
389 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
390 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
391 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
392 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
393 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
395 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
396 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
397 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
398 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
399 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
400 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
402 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
403 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
405 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
406 =========================
411 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
414 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
416 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
417 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
418 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
420 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
421 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
423 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
424 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
425 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
427 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
429 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
430 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
431 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
432 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
433 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
434 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
439 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
440 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
443 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
446 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
448 Command Line Interface
449 ----------------------
451 Database revision tracking
453 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
454 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
455 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
456 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
458 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
460 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
461 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
462 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
463 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
464 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
465 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
466 manual page for further information.
471 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
473 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
474 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
476 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
478 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
479 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
480 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
482 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
484 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
486 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
487 customization as well.
489 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
491 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
493 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
495 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
497 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
498 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
499 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
500 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
502 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
504 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
505 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
506 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
507 this variable to 10000.
512 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
513 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
515 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
517 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
518 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
519 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
520 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
521 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
522 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
523 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
524 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
525 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
528 Database revision tracking
530 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
531 query parser and the new function
532 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
534 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
538 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
539 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
540 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
541 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
546 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
548 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
549 ===========================
554 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
556 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
557 ===========================
562 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
564 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
565 =========================
567 Command-Line Interface
568 ----------------------
570 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
572 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
573 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
574 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
576 Path to gpg is now configurable
578 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
579 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
584 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
586 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
591 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
596 Support messages without Message-IDs.
601 Undeprecate single message mboxes
603 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
604 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
606 New error logging facility
608 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
609 output formerly printed to stderr.
611 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
613 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
615 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
617 Fix for rounding of seconds
622 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
624 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
625 docmumentation has been removed.
627 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
629 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
630 some material from the relicensed wiki.
635 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
636 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
637 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
642 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
643 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
644 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
645 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
646 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
647 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
650 git checkout config origin/config
652 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
654 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
655 =========================
660 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
661 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
662 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
663 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
664 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
665 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
666 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
668 Command-Line Interface
669 ----------------------
671 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
673 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
674 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
675 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
676 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
677 script callers should still check the return value.
679 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
681 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
682 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
683 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
684 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
685 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
686 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
687 and returning success even if indexing fails).
689 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
691 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
692 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
693 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
695 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
697 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
698 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
699 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
700 currently unmaintained.
702 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
704 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
705 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
706 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
707 have at least `N` files associated with them.
709 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
711 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
712 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
713 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
714 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
715 count of duplicate addresses.
720 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
722 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
723 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
724 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
727 Improved handling of the unread tag
729 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
730 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
731 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
732 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
733 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
734 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
735 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
737 Expanded default saved search settings
739 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
740 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
742 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
744 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
745 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
746 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
748 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
750 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
751 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
752 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
753 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
754 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
755 the variable for details.
760 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
762 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
763 Representing these independently of the database version number will
764 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
765 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
767 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
769 Previously, library users were required to call
770 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
771 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
772 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
773 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
774 too out of date for that API.
776 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
778 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
779 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
780 atomic section will be aborted.
782 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
783 `notmuch_database_destroy`
785 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
787 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
788 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
789 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
790 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
791 messages into the same thread.
796 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
797 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
798 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
799 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
800 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
801 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
806 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
807 from the config file. Use something like:
811 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
812 "footer": "</body></html>",
821 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
826 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
827 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
828 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
830 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
831 ===========================
836 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
838 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
840 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
842 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
843 structure for signatures changed slightly.
845 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
847 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
850 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
851 ===========================
853 This is a bug fix and portability release.
858 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
860 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
862 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
864 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
866 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
872 Use --quick when starting emacs
874 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
876 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
878 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
880 Command-Line Interface
881 ----------------------
883 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
884 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
889 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
891 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
892 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
894 Fix for phrase indexing
896 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
897 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
898 will affect only newly indexed messages.
903 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
905 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
906 unintentionally removed.
908 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
909 =========================
914 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
915 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
916 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
917 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
918 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
919 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
920 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
921 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
922 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
928 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
930 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
931 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
932 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
933 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
934 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
935 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
936 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
937 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
939 There is a new `path:` search prefix
941 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
942 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
943 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
944 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
947 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
949 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
950 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
951 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
952 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
953 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
954 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
955 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
960 Notmuch database upgrade
962 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
963 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
964 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
965 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
966 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
967 released version of Notmuch before now.
969 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
971 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
972 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
973 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
974 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
976 Message header parsing changes
978 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
979 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
980 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
981 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
982 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
983 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
985 Command-Line Interface
986 ----------------------
988 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
990 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
992 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
994 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
996 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
998 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
999 user does not want it.
1001 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1003 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1004 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1005 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1006 support formatted output.
1008 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1010 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1011 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1012 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1020 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1021 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1022 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1023 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1024 `~/.emacs` with these.
1026 Changed format for saved searches
1028 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1029 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1030 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1031 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1034 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1035 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1036 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1037 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1039 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1040 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1041 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1043 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1044 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1045 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1046 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1047 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1049 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1051 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1052 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1053 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1055 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1057 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1058 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1059 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1060 message had been unread).
1062 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1063 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1064 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1065 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1067 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1068 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1069 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1071 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1072 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1073 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1074 to tags already present.
1078 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1079 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1080 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1081 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1082 these differ from each other.
1083 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1085 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1087 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1088 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1089 for these Emacs versions.
1091 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1093 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1094 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1096 Bug fixes for sender identities
1098 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1099 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1100 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1102 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1104 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1105 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1106 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1107 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1109 Reply pushes mark before signature
1111 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1112 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1113 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1115 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1117 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1118 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1124 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1125 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1127 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1128 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1129 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1130 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1132 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1133 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1134 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1135 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1136 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1138 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1140 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1141 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1143 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1144 =========================
1146 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1147 ---------------------------------------
1149 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1150 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1151 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1152 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1153 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1154 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1155 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1159 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1160 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1162 Command-Line Interface
1163 ----------------------
1165 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1167 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1168 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1169 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1170 print for each message.
1172 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1173 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1174 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1175 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1177 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1179 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1180 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1181 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1183 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1185 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1186 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1187 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1188 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1190 `notmuch compact` command
1192 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1193 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1194 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1195 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1196 move the compacted database into place.
1201 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1203 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1204 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1205 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1206 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1207 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1208 and multiple threads.
1210 Using `notmuch-tree`
1212 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1214 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1215 search, show and tree mode itself)
1217 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1220 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1221 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1223 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1225 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1226 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1227 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1228 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1229 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1230 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1231 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1233 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1235 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1236 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1237 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1238 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1239 thread when the search was performed.
1241 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1243 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1244 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1245 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1247 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1249 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1250 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1253 Built-in help improvements
1255 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1256 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1257 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1259 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1261 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1262 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1263 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1265 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1267 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1268 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1270 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1272 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1273 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1274 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1275 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1277 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1279 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1280 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1281 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1282 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1284 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1286 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1287 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1288 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1290 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1292 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1293 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1294 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1296 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1298 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1299 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1300 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1301 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1302 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1304 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1306 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1307 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1308 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1309 the body part of the message.
1314 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1315 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1316 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1318 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1319 =========================
1321 Command-Line Interface
1322 ----------------------
1324 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1326 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1327 folder and notmuch index.
1329 `notmuch count --batch` option
1331 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1332 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1334 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1336 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1337 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1338 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1341 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1343 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1344 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1345 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1346 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1347 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1350 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1352 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1353 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1355 Top level option to specify configuration file
1357 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1358 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1360 Bash command-line completion
1362 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1363 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1364 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1365 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1366 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1367 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1368 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1369 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1370 bash-completion package.
1372 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1377 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1379 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1380 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1381 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1382 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1383 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1384 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1385 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1386 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1388 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1390 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1391 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1392 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1394 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1396 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1397 previous thread in the search results.
1399 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1401 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1402 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1404 Faster search and show
1406 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1407 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1408 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1409 threads should show faster.
1413 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1414 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1415 in question was now removed from this release.
1420 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1421 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1426 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1428 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1429 ===========================
1434 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1436 Internal test framework changes
1437 -------------------------------
1439 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1440 being unimplemented.
1442 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1443 ===========================
1445 Internal test framework changes
1446 -------------------------------
1448 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1449 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1451 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1452 =========================
1457 Date range search support
1459 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1460 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1461 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1462 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1463 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1466 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1468 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1469 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1470 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1471 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1472 but may be removed in a future release.
1474 Command-Line Interface
1475 ----------------------
1477 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1479 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1480 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1482 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1484 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1485 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1486 officially deprecated.
1488 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1490 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1491 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1492 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1494 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1496 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1497 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1500 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1501 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1502 dump/restore format.
1504 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1506 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1507 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1508 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1510 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1512 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1513 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1514 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1516 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1518 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1519 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1520 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1521 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1526 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1528 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1529 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1530 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1531 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1533 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1535 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1536 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1537 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1538 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1539 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1540 the behavior of this, see
1541 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1542 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1544 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1545 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1546 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1548 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1550 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1551 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1554 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1556 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1557 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1558 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1559 simply displayed in place of the message.
1561 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1563 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1564 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1566 Improved text/calendar content handling
1568 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1569 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1570 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1571 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1573 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1575 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1576 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1577 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1578 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1580 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1582 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1583 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1584 for HTML email containing images.
1586 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1588 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1590 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1592 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1595 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1597 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1598 the point where it was.
1600 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1602 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1603 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1604 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1605 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1606 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1608 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1610 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1611 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1612 thread instead of the message id.
1614 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1615 -----------------------------
1617 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1618 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1619 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1620 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1621 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1622 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1623 further details and installation.
1628 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1630 Internal test framework changes
1631 -------------------------------
1633 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1635 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1636 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1637 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1638 can result in buggy behavior.
1640 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1641 =========================
1646 Maildir tag synchronization
1648 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1649 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1650 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1651 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1652 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1653 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1656 Command-Line Interface
1657 ----------------------
1659 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1660 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1661 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1662 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1663 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1669 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1671 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1673 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1674 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1675 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1677 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1679 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1680 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1681 span multiple lines.
1683 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1685 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1686 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1687 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1688 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1689 inside the result or message.
1691 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1693 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1694 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1696 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1697 user-specified formatting
1699 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1700 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1701 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1702 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1703 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1705 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1706 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1708 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1709 ===========================
1714 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1715 compilation error for this contrib package.
1717 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1718 ===========================
1723 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1725 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1726 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1727 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1728 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1730 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1731 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1734 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1735 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1736 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1737 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1740 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1742 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1745 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1746 =========================
1748 Command-Line Interface
1749 ----------------------
1753 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1754 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1755 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1756 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1758 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1759 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1760 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1761 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1765 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1766 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1768 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1769 tag in your query, for example:
1771 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1773 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1774 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1776 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1777 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1779 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1781 Raw show format changes
1783 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1784 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1785 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1786 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1787 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1788 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1789 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1790 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1792 Listing configuration items
1794 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1800 Changes to tagging interface
1802 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1803 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1804 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1805 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1806 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1807 for more information.
1809 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1810 may need to update in custom configurations.
1812 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1814 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1815 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1816 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1817 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1820 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1821 -----------------------------
1823 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1824 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1825 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1826 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1827 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1828 contrib/ from now on.
1833 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1834 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1836 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1837 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1839 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1840 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1841 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1843 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1844 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1846 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1847 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1848 returning the new database object or directory object.
1855 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1856 compatible with go 1.
1858 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1859 =========================
1861 Command-Line Interface
1862 ----------------------
1866 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1867 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1868 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1869 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1871 Mail store folder/file ignore
1873 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1874 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1875 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1877 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1878 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1880 Unified help and manual pages
1882 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1883 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1886 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1888 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1889 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1897 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1898 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1899 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1900 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1902 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1904 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1905 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1907 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1910 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1911 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1912 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1914 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1916 should be changed to:
1918 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1920 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1922 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1923 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1925 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1927 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1928 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1929 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1930 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1931 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1932 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1936 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1937 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1938 of Mailing List Archives.
1940 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1942 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1943 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1946 Show view archiving key binding changes
1948 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1949 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1950 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1951 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1952 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1955 Support text/calendar MIME type
1957 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1960 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1962 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1963 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1964 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1965 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1967 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1969 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1970 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1971 messages blue by default in the search view.
1975 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1976 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1983 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1986 Python bindings changes
1987 -----------------------
1989 Python 3.2 compatibility
1991 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1993 Added missing unicode conversions
1995 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1996 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1997 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2002 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2004 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2005 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2006 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2007 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2008 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2010 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2011 ===========================
2016 Fix error handling in python bindings
2018 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2019 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2020 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2021 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2023 Quote MML tags in replies
2025 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2026 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2027 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2028 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2029 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2030 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2031 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2032 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2034 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2035 =========================
2037 Command-Line Interface
2038 ----------------------
2042 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2043 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2044 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2045 importing new messages into the database.
2047 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2049 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2050 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2051 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2056 Automatic tag query optimization
2058 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2059 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2060 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2062 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2064 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2065 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2066 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2071 Reduction of memory leaks
2073 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2074 and fixed in this release.
2081 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2082 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2083 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2086 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2088 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2089 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2090 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2093 Improvements in saved search management
2095 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2096 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2097 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2099 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2101 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2102 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2103 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2105 New face for crypto parts headers
2107 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2108 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2109 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2112 Use space as default thousands separator
2114 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2115 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2116 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2118 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2119 buttonized id: links
2121 New function notmuch-show-advance
2123 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2124 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2125 be bound to SPC with:
2127 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2129 Various performance improvements
2134 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2135 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2138 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2139 ===========================
2144 Fix crash in python bindings
2146 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2147 for some, but not all users.
2149 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2150 ===========================
2155 Fix `--help` argument
2157 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2158 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2159 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2161 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2162 =========================
2164 New build and testing features
2165 ------------------------------
2167 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2168 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2169 prerequisites is improved.
2171 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2173 New command-line features
2174 -------------------------
2176 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2178 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2179 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2182 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2184 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2185 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2186 favour of using stdout.
2188 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2190 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2191 limit the number of results shown.
2193 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2195 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2196 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2199 New emacs UI features
2200 ---------------------
2202 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2204 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2205 starting with "tag:".
2207 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2209 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2210 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2212 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2214 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2216 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2218 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2219 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2224 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2226 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2228 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2229 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2230 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2231 requires a database rebuild:
2233 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2234 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2236 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2238 New collection of add-on tools
2239 ------------------------------
2241 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2242 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2243 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2246 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2248 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2249 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2250 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2252 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2253 ========================
2255 New, general features
2256 ---------------------
2258 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2260 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2261 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2262 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2263 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2264 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2271 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2272 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2274 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2278 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2279 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2280 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2283 Python bindings changes
2284 -----------------------
2286 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2288 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2289 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2290 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2291 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2292 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2293 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2295 Ruby bindings changes
2296 ---------------------
2298 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2299 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2300 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2301 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2306 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2308 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2309 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2311 Reply formatting cleanup
2312 ------------------------
2314 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2315 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2317 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2318 ========================
2320 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2322 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2323 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2324 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2325 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2328 Improved Build system portability
2330 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2331 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2332 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2334 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2336 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2338 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2340 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2341 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2342 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2344 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2345 ========================
2347 Vim interface improvements
2348 --------------------------
2350 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2352 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2353 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2354 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2355 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2356 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2358 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2360 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2361 * fix compose temp file name
2363 Python Bindings changes
2364 -----------------------
2366 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2368 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2369 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2371 Build-System improvements
2372 -------------------------
2374 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2376 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2379 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2380 ==========================
2385 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2387 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2388 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2390 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2391 =======================
2393 New, general features
2394 ---------------------
2396 Folder-based searching
2398 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2399 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2400 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2404 For example, one might use things such as:
2410 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2411 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2413 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2414 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2415 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2416 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2418 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2419 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2420 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2423 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2424 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2426 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2428 Support for PGP/MIME
2430 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2431 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2432 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2434 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2436 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2437 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2439 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2440 notmuch will receive these tags.
2442 New command-line features
2443 -------------------------
2445 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2447 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2448 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2450 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2452 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2453 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2454 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2456 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2458 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2459 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2460 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2461 which parts a signature part applies).
2463 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2465 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2466 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2467 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2468 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2469 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2472 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2474 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2475 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2476 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2477 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2478 by translating it internally to the new call.
2480 Performance improvements
2481 ------------------------
2483 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2485 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2486 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2487 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2489 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2490 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2492 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2494 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2495 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2496 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2498 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2499 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2500 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2501 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2503 Faster initial indexing
2505 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2506 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2507 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2509 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2511 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2512 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2513 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2514 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2516 New emacs-interface features
2517 ----------------------------
2519 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2521 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2522 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2523 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2524 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2525 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2526 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2528 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2530 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2531 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2532 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2533 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2535 User-selectable From address
2537 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2538 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2539 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2540 will prompt for the from address to use.
2542 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2543 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2544 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2546 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2547 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2548 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2551 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2553 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2554 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2556 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2558 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2560 ----- Original Message -----
2562 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2563 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2564 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2565 citations work much like conventional citations.
2567 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2569 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2570 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2571 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2572 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2573 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2575 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2576 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2578 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2580 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2581 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2582 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2584 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2586 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2587 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2588 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2589 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2590 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2592 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2594 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2597 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2599 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2601 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2603 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2606 Vim interface improvements
2607 --------------------------
2609 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2611 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2612 * Implementing archive in show view
2613 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2614 * Add delete commands
2617 Bindings improvements
2618 ---------------------
2620 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2622 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2623 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2625 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2627 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2631 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2632 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2633 `list(Messages)` works now
2634 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2636 These allow, for example:
2638 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2640 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2642 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2648 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2650 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2653 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2655 New build-system features
2656 -------------------------
2658 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2660 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2661 the configure script from some other directory:
2668 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2670 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2671 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2672 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2673 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2674 manual invocation of configure.
2676 New test-suite feature
2677 ----------------------
2679 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2681 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2682 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2683 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2684 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2685 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2688 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2690 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2691 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2692 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2693 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2694 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2695 are updated to take advantage of this.
2697 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2699 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2700 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2701 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2702 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2708 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2710 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2711 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2712 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2714 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2716 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2718 to:user@elsewhere.com
2720 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2722 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2724 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2726 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2727 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2728 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2731 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2732 from the Received headers in some cases
2734 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2735 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2737 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2739 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2741 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2743 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2744 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2745 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2747 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2748 -------------------------
2750 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2752 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2753 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2754 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2756 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2758 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2759 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2760 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2763 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2765 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2766 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2767 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2768 fixed to avoid this bug.
2770 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2772 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2773 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2775 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2776 ========================
2778 New, general features
2779 ---------------------
2781 Maildir-flag synchronization
2783 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2784 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2793 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2795 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2796 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2797 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2798 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2800 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2801 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2802 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2803 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2806 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2808 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2809 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2810 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2812 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2813 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2815 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2816 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2818 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2819 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2820 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2822 New library features
2823 --------------------
2825 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2827 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2828 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2829 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2830 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2832 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2833 message with the new function:
2835 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2837 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2838 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2839 over all available filenames for a given message.
2841 New command-line features
2842 -------------------------
2844 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2846 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2847 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2848 access to the mail store itself.
2850 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2851 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2852 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2853 name of a script containing:
2855 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2857 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2858 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2864 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2866 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2868 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2870 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2871 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2872 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2873 now produces nothing).
2875 Emacs interface improvements
2876 ----------------------------
2878 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2880 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2882 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2884 Display current thread subject in a header line
2886 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2888 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2890 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2891 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2892 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2893 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2894 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2895 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2896 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2898 Vim interface improvements
2899 --------------------------
2901 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2903 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2904 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2910 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2912 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2913 ========================
2915 New command-line features
2916 -------------------------
2918 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2920 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2921 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2922 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2924 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2925 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2926 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2927 scripts. For example:
2929 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2930 <operations-on> "$file"
2933 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2935 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2936 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2937 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2938 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2939 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2940 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2942 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2944 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2945 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2946 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2947 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2949 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2951 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2952 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2953 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2954 default rather than Bcc.
2956 New library features
2957 --------------------
2959 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2961 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2962 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2967 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2969 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2970 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2971 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2972 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2973 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2974 notmuch customize interface.
2976 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2978 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2979 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2980 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2981 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2983 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2985 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2986 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2987 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2988 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2990 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2992 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2993 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2994 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2995 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2996 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2997 notmuch customize interface.
2999 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3001 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3002 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3003 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3004 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3005 notmuch customize interface.
3007 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3009 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3010 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3011 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3012 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3015 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3017 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3018 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3019 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3022 New build-system features
3023 -------------------------
3025 Various portability fixes have been applied
3027 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3028 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3029 more portable than ever before.
3031 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3033 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3034 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3035 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3037 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3038 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3039 automatically run ldconfig.
3041 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3042 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3043 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3045 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3046 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3047 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3048 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3050 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3052 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3053 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3054 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3055 used in the resulting Makefile.
3057 New test-suite features
3058 -----------------------
3060 New modularization of test suite
3062 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3063 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3064 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3065 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3066 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3067 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3068 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3069 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3071 New testing of emacs interface
3073 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3074 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3075 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3076 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3077 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3078 database via the FCC setting.
3083 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3085 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3086 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3087 persistent error of the form:
3089 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3091 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3092 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3094 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3096 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3097 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3098 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3100 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3102 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3103 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3104 parsing the notmuch results).
3106 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3108 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3111 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3112 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3113 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3118 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3120 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3121 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3122 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3123 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3124 the emacs interface.
3126 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3128 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3129 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3130 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3132 Python-binding fixes
3133 --------------------
3135 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3137 Debian-specific fixes
3138 ---------------------
3140 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3142 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3143 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3144 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3147 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3148 ==========================
3153 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3155 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3156 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3157 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3158 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3160 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3162 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3163 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3164 want notmuch to crash.
3169 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3171 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3172 directory does not exist
3177 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3179 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3180 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3182 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3183 ========================
3185 New command-line features
3186 -------------------------
3188 User-configurable tags for new messages
3190 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3191 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3192 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3193 to specify this value.
3195 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3197 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3198 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3199 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3201 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3203 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3204 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3206 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3208 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3209 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3210 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3211 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3212 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3215 Indication of author names that match a search
3217 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3218 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3219 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3220 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3221 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3222 messages in the thread are listed first.
3224 New: Python bindings
3225 --------------------
3227 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3228 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3229 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3230 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3232 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3233 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3234 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3237 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3238 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3239 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3241 Emacs interface improvements
3242 ----------------------------
3244 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3246 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3247 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3248 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3249 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3250 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3251 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3252 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3253 but without any of the disadvantages).
3255 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3256 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3257 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3260 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3261 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3262 instead running something like:
3264 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3266 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3267 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3268 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3271 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3273 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3274 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3275 tweaked by the user.
3277 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3278 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3279 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3282 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3283 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3284 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3287 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3289 This support currently relies on an external program,
3290 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3291 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3292 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3293 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3294 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3297 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3298 notmuch) is available via:
3300 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3302 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3303 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3304 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3306 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3308 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3309 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3310 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3311 making this automatic in a future release.
3313 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3315 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3316 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3317 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3318 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3319 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3320 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3323 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3325 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3326 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3327 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3329 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3331 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3332 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3333 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3335 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3336 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3337 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3338 other representation.
3340 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3341 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3344 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3346 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3347 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3348 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3350 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3351 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3352 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3354 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3356 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3357 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3358 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3359 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3360 to display the search result.
3362 More flexible handling of header visibility
3364 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3365 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3366 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3367 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3368 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3369 with the 'h' keybinding.
3371 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3372 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3373 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3375 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3377 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3379 Customizable formatting of search results
3381 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3382 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3383 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3385 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3387 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3389 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3394 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3396 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3397 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3398 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3399 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3405 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3407 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3408 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3410 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3412 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3413 accept are now all accepted.
3418 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3420 Better display of output from failed tests
3422 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3423 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3425 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3426 ========================
3428 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3429 detailed release notes this time!
3431 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3432 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3434 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3435 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3436 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3437 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3444 Better guessing of From: header
3446 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3447 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3448 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3449 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3450 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3453 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3455 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3456 guaranteed to match all messages.
3458 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3460 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3461 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3462 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3463 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3464 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3467 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3470 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3471 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3472 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3473 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3478 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3480 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3481 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3482 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3483 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3485 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3487 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3489 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3490 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3491 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3493 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3495 Previously, the user might see:
3497 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3501 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3503 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3504 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3505 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3506 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3508 Emacs client features
3509 ---------------------
3511 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3513 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3514 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3515 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3516 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3517 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3519 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3522 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3523 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3524 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3525 search with the '*' binding.
3527 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3529 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3530 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3533 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3535 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3536 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3537 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3539 Build-system features
3540 ---------------------
3542 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3544 Add support to configure for many standard options
3546 We include actual support for:
3548 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3550 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3552 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3553 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3555 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3556 separate "make install-emacs"
3558 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3560 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3561 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3562 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3564 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3567 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3568 ========================
3570 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3572 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3573 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3575 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3576 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3577 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3578 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3579 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3580 tags from messages in a thread.
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