1 Notmuch 0.23 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Face customization is easier
9 New faces `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and
10 `notmuch-search-unread-face` are used by default by
11 `notmuch-search-line-faces`. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify
17 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
22 Go bindings moved to contrib
24 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
26 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore.
28 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
29 because DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY and DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE were
31 The same issue occured with sort modes.
33 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
34 ===========================
39 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
41 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
46 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
51 Use `env` to locate perl.
56 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
58 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
60 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
62 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
64 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
65 =========================
72 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
73 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
75 Limited support for S/MIME messages
77 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
78 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
79 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
84 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
85 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
86 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
88 Command Line Interface
89 ----------------------
91 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
93 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
98 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
103 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
105 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
106 parts are now included in replies.
108 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
109 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
110 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
111 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
113 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
115 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
117 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
119 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
120 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
121 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
122 forwards only the current message.
124 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
126 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
127 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
128 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
129 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
130 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
131 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
132 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
133 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
136 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
137 longer generate empty buffers
139 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
140 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
141 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
142 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
143 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
145 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
147 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
150 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
152 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
155 Address completion improvements
157 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
158 you previously configured one, customize the variable
159 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
160 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
161 interactive address completion.
163 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
165 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
166 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
167 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
172 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
173 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
174 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
180 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
181 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
182 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
183 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
184 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
185 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
187 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
188 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
189 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
190 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
191 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
192 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
194 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
195 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
197 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
198 =========================
203 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
206 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
208 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
209 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
210 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
212 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
213 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
215 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
216 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
217 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
219 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
221 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
222 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
223 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
224 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
225 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
226 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
231 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
232 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
235 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
238 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
240 Command Line Interface
241 ----------------------
243 Database revision tracking
245 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
246 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
247 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
248 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
250 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
252 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
253 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
254 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
255 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
256 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
257 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
258 manual page for further information.
263 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
265 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
266 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
268 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
270 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
271 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
272 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
274 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
276 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
278 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
279 customization as well.
281 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
283 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
285 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
287 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
289 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
290 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
291 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
292 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
294 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
296 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
297 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
298 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
299 this variable to 10000.
304 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
305 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
307 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
309 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
310 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
311 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
312 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
313 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
314 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
315 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
316 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
317 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
320 Database revision tracking
322 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
323 query parser and the new function
324 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
326 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
330 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
331 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
332 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
333 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
338 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
340 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
341 ===========================
346 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
348 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
349 ===========================
354 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
356 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
357 =========================
359 Command-Line Interface
360 ----------------------
362 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
364 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
365 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
366 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
368 Path to gpg is now configurable
370 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
371 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
376 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
378 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
383 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
388 Support messages without Message-IDs.
393 Undeprecate single message mboxes
395 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
396 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
398 New error logging facility
400 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
401 output formerly printed to stderr.
403 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
405 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
407 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
409 Fix for rounding of seconds
414 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
416 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
417 docmumentation has been removed.
419 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
421 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
422 some material from the relicensed wiki.
427 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
428 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
429 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
434 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
435 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
436 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
437 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
438 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
439 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
442 git checkout config origin/config
444 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
446 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
447 =========================
452 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
453 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
454 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
455 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
456 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
457 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
458 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
460 Command-Line Interface
461 ----------------------
463 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
465 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
466 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
467 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
468 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
469 script callers should still check the return value.
471 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
473 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
474 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
475 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
476 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
477 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
478 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
479 and returning success even if indexing fails).
481 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
483 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
484 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
485 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
487 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
489 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
490 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
491 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
492 currently unmaintained.
494 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
496 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
497 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
498 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
499 have at least `N` files associated with them.
501 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
503 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
504 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
505 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
506 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
507 count of duplicate addresses.
512 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
514 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
515 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
516 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
519 Improved handling of the unread tag
521 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
522 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
523 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
524 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
525 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
526 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
527 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
529 Expanded default saved search settings
531 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
532 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
534 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
536 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
537 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
538 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
540 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
542 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
543 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
544 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
545 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
546 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
547 the variable for details.
552 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
554 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
555 Representing these independently of the database version number will
556 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
557 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
559 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
561 Previously, library users were required to call
562 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
563 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
564 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
565 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
566 too out of date for that API.
568 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
570 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
571 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
572 atomic section will be aborted.
574 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
575 `notmuch_database_destroy`
577 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
579 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
580 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
581 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
582 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
583 messages into the same thread.
588 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
589 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
590 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
591 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
592 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
593 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
598 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
599 from the config file. Use something like:
603 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
604 "footer": "</body></html>",
613 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
618 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
619 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
620 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
622 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
623 ===========================
628 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
630 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
632 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
634 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
635 structure for signatures changed slightly.
637 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
639 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
642 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
643 ===========================
645 This is a bug fix and portability release.
650 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
652 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
654 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
656 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
658 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
664 Use --quick when starting emacs
666 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
668 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
670 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
672 Command-Line Interface
673 ----------------------
675 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
676 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
681 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
683 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
684 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
686 Fix for phrase indexing
688 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
689 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
690 will affect only newly indexed messages.
695 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
697 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
698 unintentionally removed.
700 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
701 =========================
706 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
707 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
708 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
709 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
710 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
711 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
712 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
713 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
714 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
720 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
722 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
723 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
724 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
725 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
726 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
727 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
728 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
729 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
731 There is a new `path:` search prefix
733 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
734 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
735 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
736 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
739 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
741 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
742 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
743 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
744 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
745 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
746 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
747 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
752 Notmuch database upgrade
754 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
755 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
756 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
757 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
758 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
759 released version of Notmuch before now.
761 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
763 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
764 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
765 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
766 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
768 Message header parsing changes
770 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
771 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
772 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
773 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
774 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
775 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
777 Command-Line Interface
778 ----------------------
780 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
782 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
784 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
786 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
788 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
790 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
791 user does not want it.
793 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
795 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
796 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
797 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
798 support formatted output.
800 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
802 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
803 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
804 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
812 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
813 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
814 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
815 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
816 `~/.emacs` with these.
818 Changed format for saved searches
820 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
821 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
822 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
823 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
826 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
827 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
828 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
829 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
831 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
832 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
833 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
835 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
836 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
837 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
838 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
839 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
841 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
843 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
844 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
845 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
847 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
849 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
850 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
851 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
852 message had been unread).
854 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
855 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
856 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
857 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
859 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
860 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
861 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
863 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
864 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
865 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
866 to tags already present.
870 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
871 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
872 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
873 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
874 these differ from each other.
875 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
877 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
879 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
880 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
881 for these Emacs versions.
883 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
885 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
886 newlines before calling notmuch count.
888 Bug fixes for sender identities
890 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
891 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
892 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
894 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
896 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
897 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
898 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
899 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
901 Reply pushes mark before signature
903 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
904 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
905 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
907 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
909 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
910 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
916 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
917 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
919 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
920 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
921 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
922 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
924 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
925 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
926 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
927 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
928 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
930 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
932 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
933 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
935 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
936 =========================
938 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
939 ---------------------------------------
941 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
942 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
943 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
944 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
945 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
946 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
947 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
951 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
952 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
954 Command-Line Interface
955 ----------------------
957 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
959 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
960 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
961 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
962 print for each message.
964 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
965 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
966 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
967 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
969 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
971 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
972 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
973 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
975 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
977 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
978 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
979 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
980 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
982 `notmuch compact` command
984 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
985 functionality through a more convenient interface than
986 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
987 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
988 move the compacted database into place.
993 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
995 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
996 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
997 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
998 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
999 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1000 and multiple threads.
1002 Using `notmuch-tree`
1004 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1006 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1007 search, show and tree mode itself)
1009 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1012 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1013 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1015 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1017 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1018 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1019 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1020 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1021 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1022 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1023 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1025 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1027 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1028 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1029 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1030 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1031 thread when the search was performed.
1033 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1035 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1036 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1037 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1039 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1041 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1042 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1045 Built-in help improvements
1047 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1048 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1049 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1051 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1053 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1054 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1055 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1057 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1059 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1060 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1062 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1064 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1065 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1066 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1067 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1069 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1071 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1072 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1073 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1074 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1076 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1078 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1079 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1080 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1082 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1084 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1085 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1086 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1088 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1090 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1091 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1092 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1093 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1094 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1096 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1098 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1099 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1100 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1101 the body part of the message.
1106 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1107 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1108 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1110 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1111 =========================
1113 Command-Line Interface
1114 ----------------------
1116 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1118 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1119 folder and notmuch index.
1121 `notmuch count --batch` option
1123 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1124 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1126 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1128 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1129 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1130 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1133 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1135 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1136 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1137 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1138 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1139 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1142 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1144 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1145 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1147 Top level option to specify configuration file
1149 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1150 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1152 Bash command-line completion
1154 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1155 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1156 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1157 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1158 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1159 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1160 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1161 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1162 bash-completion package.
1164 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1169 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1171 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1172 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1173 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1174 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1175 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1176 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1177 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1178 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1180 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1182 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1183 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1184 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1186 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1188 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1189 previous thread in the search results.
1191 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1193 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1194 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1196 Faster search and show
1198 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1199 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1200 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1201 threads should show faster.
1205 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1206 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1207 in question was now removed from this release.
1212 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1213 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1218 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1220 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1221 ===========================
1226 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1228 Internal test framework changes
1229 -------------------------------
1231 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1232 being unimplemented.
1234 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1235 ===========================
1237 Internal test framework changes
1238 -------------------------------
1240 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1241 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1243 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1244 =========================
1249 Date range search support
1251 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1252 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1253 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1254 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1255 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1258 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1260 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1261 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1262 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1263 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1264 but may be removed in a future release.
1266 Command-Line Interface
1267 ----------------------
1269 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1271 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1272 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1274 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1276 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1277 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1278 officially deprecated.
1280 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1282 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1283 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1284 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1286 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1288 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1289 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1292 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1293 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1294 dump/restore format.
1296 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1298 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1299 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1300 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1302 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1304 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1305 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1306 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1308 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1310 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1311 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1312 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1313 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1318 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1320 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1321 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1322 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1323 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1325 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1327 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1328 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1329 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1330 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1331 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1332 the behavior of this, see
1333 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1334 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1336 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1337 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1338 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1340 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1342 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1343 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1346 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1348 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1349 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1350 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1351 simply displayed in place of the message.
1353 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1355 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1356 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1358 Improved text/calendar content handling
1360 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1361 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1362 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1363 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1365 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1367 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1368 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1369 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1370 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1372 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1374 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1375 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1376 for HTML email containing images.
1378 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1380 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1382 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1384 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1387 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1389 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1390 the point where it was.
1392 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1394 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1395 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1396 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1397 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1398 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1400 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1402 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1403 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1404 thread instead of the message id.
1406 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1407 -----------------------------
1409 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1410 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1411 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1412 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1413 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1414 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1415 further details and installation.
1420 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1422 Internal test framework changes
1423 -------------------------------
1425 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1427 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1428 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1429 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1430 can result in buggy behavior.
1432 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1433 =========================
1438 Maildir tag synchronization
1440 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1441 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1442 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1443 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1444 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1445 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1448 Command-Line Interface
1449 ----------------------
1451 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1452 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1453 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1454 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1455 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1461 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1463 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1465 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1466 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1467 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1469 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1471 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1472 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1473 span multiple lines.
1475 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1477 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1478 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1479 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1480 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1481 inside the result or message.
1483 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1485 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1486 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1488 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1489 user-specified formatting
1491 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1492 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1493 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1494 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1495 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1497 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1498 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1500 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1501 ===========================
1506 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1507 compilation error for this contrib package.
1509 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1510 ===========================
1515 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1517 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1518 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1519 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1520 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1522 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1523 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1526 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1527 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1528 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1529 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1532 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1534 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1537 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1538 =========================
1540 Command-Line Interface
1541 ----------------------
1545 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1546 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1547 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1548 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1550 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1551 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1552 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1553 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1557 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1558 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1560 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1561 tag in your query, for example:
1563 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1565 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1566 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1568 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1569 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1571 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1573 Raw show format changes
1575 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1576 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1577 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1578 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1579 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1580 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1581 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1582 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1584 Listing configuration items
1586 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1592 Changes to tagging interface
1594 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1595 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1596 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1597 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1598 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1599 for more information.
1601 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1602 may need to update in custom configurations.
1604 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1606 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1607 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1608 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1609 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1612 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1613 -----------------------------
1615 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1616 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1617 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1618 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1619 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1620 contrib/ from now on.
1625 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1626 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1628 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1629 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1631 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1632 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1633 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1635 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1636 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1638 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1639 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1640 returning the new database object or directory object.
1647 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1648 compatible with go 1.
1650 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1651 =========================
1653 Command-Line Interface
1654 ----------------------
1658 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1659 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1660 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1661 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1663 Mail store folder/file ignore
1665 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1666 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1667 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1669 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1670 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1672 Unified help and manual pages
1674 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1675 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1678 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1680 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1681 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1689 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1690 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1691 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1692 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1694 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1696 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1697 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1699 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1702 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1703 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1704 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1706 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1708 should be changed to:
1710 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1712 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1714 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1715 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1717 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1719 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1720 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1721 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1722 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1723 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1724 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1728 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1729 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1730 of Mailing List Archives.
1732 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1734 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1735 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1738 Show view archiving key binding changes
1740 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1741 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1742 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1743 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1744 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1747 Support text/calendar MIME type
1749 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1752 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1754 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1755 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1756 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1757 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1759 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1761 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1762 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1763 messages blue by default in the search view.
1767 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1768 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1775 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1778 Python bindings changes
1779 -----------------------
1781 Python 3.2 compatibility
1783 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1785 Added missing unicode conversions
1787 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1788 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1789 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1794 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1796 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1797 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1798 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1799 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1800 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1802 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1803 ===========================
1808 Fix error handling in python bindings
1810 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1811 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1812 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1813 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1815 Quote MML tags in replies
1817 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1818 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1819 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1820 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1821 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1822 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1823 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1824 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1826 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1827 =========================
1829 Command-Line Interface
1830 ----------------------
1834 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1835 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1836 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1837 importing new messages into the database.
1839 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1841 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1842 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1843 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1848 Automatic tag query optimization
1850 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1851 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1852 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1854 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1856 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1857 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1858 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1863 Reduction of memory leaks
1865 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1866 and fixed in this release.
1873 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1874 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1875 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1878 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1880 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1881 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1882 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1885 Improvements in saved search management
1887 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1888 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1889 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1891 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1893 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1894 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1895 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1897 New face for crypto parts headers
1899 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1900 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1901 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1904 Use space as default thousands separator
1906 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1907 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1908 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1910 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1911 buttonized id: links
1913 New function notmuch-show-advance
1915 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1916 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1917 be bound to SPC with:
1919 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1921 Various performance improvements
1926 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1927 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1930 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1931 ===========================
1936 Fix crash in python bindings
1938 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1939 for some, but not all users.
1941 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1942 ===========================
1947 Fix `--help` argument
1949 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1950 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1951 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1953 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1954 =========================
1956 New build and testing features
1957 ------------------------------
1959 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1960 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1961 prerequisites is improved.
1963 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1965 New command-line features
1966 -------------------------
1968 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1970 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1971 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1974 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1976 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1977 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1978 favour of using stdout.
1980 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1982 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1983 limit the number of results shown.
1985 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1987 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1988 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1991 New emacs UI features
1992 ---------------------
1994 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1996 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1997 starting with "tag:".
1999 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2001 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2002 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2004 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2006 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2008 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2010 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2011 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2016 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2018 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2020 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2021 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2022 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2023 requires a database rebuild:
2025 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2026 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2028 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2030 New collection of add-on tools
2031 ------------------------------
2033 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2034 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2035 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2038 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2040 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2041 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2042 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2044 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2045 ========================
2047 New, general features
2048 ---------------------
2050 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2052 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2053 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2054 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2055 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2056 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2063 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2064 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2066 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2070 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2071 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2072 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2075 Python bindings changes
2076 -----------------------
2078 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2080 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2081 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2082 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2083 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2084 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2085 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2087 Ruby bindings changes
2088 ---------------------
2090 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2091 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2092 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2093 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2098 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2100 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2101 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2103 Reply formatting cleanup
2104 ------------------------
2106 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2107 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2109 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2110 ========================
2112 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2114 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2115 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2116 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2117 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2120 Improved Build system portability
2122 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2123 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2124 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2126 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2128 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2130 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2132 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2133 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2134 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2136 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2137 ========================
2139 Vim interface improvements
2140 --------------------------
2142 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2144 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2145 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2146 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2147 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2148 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2150 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2152 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2153 * fix compose temp file name
2155 Python Bindings changes
2156 -----------------------
2158 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2160 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2161 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2163 Build-System improvements
2164 -------------------------
2166 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2168 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2171 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2172 ==========================
2177 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2179 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2180 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2182 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2183 =======================
2185 New, general features
2186 ---------------------
2188 Folder-based searching
2190 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2191 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2192 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2196 For example, one might use things such as:
2202 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2203 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2205 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2206 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2207 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2208 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2210 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2211 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2212 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2215 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2216 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2218 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2220 Support for PGP/MIME
2222 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2223 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2224 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2226 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2228 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2229 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2231 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2232 notmuch will receive these tags.
2234 New command-line features
2235 -------------------------
2237 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2239 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2240 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2242 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2244 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2245 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2246 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2248 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2250 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2251 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2252 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2253 which parts a signature part applies).
2255 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2257 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2258 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2259 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2260 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2261 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2264 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2266 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2267 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2268 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2269 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2270 by translating it internally to the new call.
2272 Performance improvements
2273 ------------------------
2275 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2277 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2278 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2279 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2281 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2282 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2284 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2286 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2287 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2288 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2290 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2291 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2292 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2293 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2295 Faster initial indexing
2297 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2298 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2299 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2301 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2303 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2304 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2305 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2306 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2308 New emacs-interface features
2309 ----------------------------
2311 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2313 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2314 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2315 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2316 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2317 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2318 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2320 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2322 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2323 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2324 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2325 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2327 User-selectable From address
2329 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2330 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2331 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2332 will prompt for the from address to use.
2334 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2335 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2336 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2338 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2339 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2340 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2343 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2345 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2346 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2348 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2350 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2352 ----- Original Message -----
2354 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2355 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2356 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2357 citations work much like conventional citations.
2359 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2361 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2362 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2363 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2364 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2365 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2367 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2368 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2370 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2372 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2373 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2374 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2376 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2378 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2379 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2380 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2381 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2382 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2384 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2386 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2389 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2391 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2393 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2395 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2398 Vim interface improvements
2399 --------------------------
2401 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2403 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2404 * Implementing archive in show view
2405 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2406 * Add delete commands
2409 Bindings improvements
2410 ---------------------
2412 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2414 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2415 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2417 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2419 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2423 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2424 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2425 `list(Messages)` works now
2426 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2428 These allow, for example:
2430 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2432 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2434 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2440 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2442 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2445 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2447 New build-system features
2448 -------------------------
2450 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2452 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2453 the configure script from some other directory:
2460 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2462 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2463 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2464 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2465 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2466 manual invocation of configure.
2468 New test-suite feature
2469 ----------------------
2471 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2473 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2474 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2475 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2476 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2477 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2480 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2482 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2483 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2484 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2485 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2486 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2487 are updated to take advantage of this.
2489 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2491 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2492 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2493 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2494 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2500 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2502 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2503 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2504 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2506 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2508 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2510 to:user@elsewhere.com
2512 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2514 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2516 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2518 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2519 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2520 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2523 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2524 from the Received headers in some cases
2526 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2527 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2529 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2531 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2533 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2535 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2536 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2537 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2539 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2540 -------------------------
2542 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2544 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2545 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2546 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2548 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2550 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2551 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2552 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2555 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2557 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2558 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2559 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2560 fixed to avoid this bug.
2562 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2564 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2565 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2567 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2568 ========================
2570 New, general features
2571 ---------------------
2573 Maildir-flag synchronization
2575 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2576 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2585 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2587 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2588 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2589 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2590 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2592 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2593 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2594 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2595 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2598 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2600 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2601 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2602 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2604 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2605 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2607 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2608 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2610 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2611 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2612 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2614 New library features
2615 --------------------
2617 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2619 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2620 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2621 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2622 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2624 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2625 message with the new function:
2627 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2629 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2630 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2631 over all available filenames for a given message.
2633 New command-line features
2634 -------------------------
2636 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2638 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2639 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2640 access to the mail store itself.
2642 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2643 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2644 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2645 name of a script containing:
2647 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2649 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2650 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2656 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2658 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2660 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2662 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2663 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2664 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2665 now produces nothing).
2667 Emacs interface improvements
2668 ----------------------------
2670 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2672 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2674 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2676 Display current thread subject in a header line
2678 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2680 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2682 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2683 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2684 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2685 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2686 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2687 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2688 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2690 Vim interface improvements
2691 --------------------------
2693 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2695 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2696 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2702 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2704 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2705 ========================
2707 New command-line features
2708 -------------------------
2710 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2712 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2713 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2714 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2716 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2717 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2718 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2719 scripts. For example:
2721 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2722 <operations-on> "$file"
2725 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2727 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2728 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2729 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2730 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2731 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2732 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2734 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2736 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2737 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2738 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2739 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2741 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2743 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2744 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2745 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2746 default rather than Bcc.
2748 New library features
2749 --------------------
2751 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2753 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2754 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2759 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2761 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2762 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2763 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2764 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2765 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2766 notmuch customize interface.
2768 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2770 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2771 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2772 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2773 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2775 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2777 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2778 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2779 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2780 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2782 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2784 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2785 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2786 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2787 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2788 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2789 notmuch customize interface.
2791 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2793 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2794 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2795 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2796 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2797 notmuch customize interface.
2799 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2801 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2802 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2803 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2804 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2807 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2809 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2810 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2811 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2814 New build-system features
2815 -------------------------
2817 Various portability fixes have been applied
2819 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2820 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2821 more portable than ever before.
2823 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2825 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2826 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2827 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2829 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2830 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2831 automatically run ldconfig.
2833 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2834 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2835 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2837 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2838 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2839 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2840 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2842 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2844 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2845 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2846 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2847 used in the resulting Makefile.
2849 New test-suite features
2850 -----------------------
2852 New modularization of test suite
2854 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2855 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2856 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2857 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2858 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2859 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2860 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2861 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2863 New testing of emacs interface
2865 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2866 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2867 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2868 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2869 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2870 database via the FCC setting.
2875 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2877 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2878 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2879 persistent error of the form:
2881 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2883 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2884 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2886 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2888 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2889 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2890 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2892 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2894 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2895 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2896 parsing the notmuch results).
2898 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2900 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2903 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2904 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2905 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2910 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2912 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2913 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2914 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2915 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2916 the emacs interface.
2918 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2920 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2921 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2922 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2924 Python-binding fixes
2925 --------------------
2927 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2929 Debian-specific fixes
2930 ---------------------
2932 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2934 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2935 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2936 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2939 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2940 ==========================
2945 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2947 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2948 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2949 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2950 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2952 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2954 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2955 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2956 want notmuch to crash.
2961 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2963 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2964 directory does not exist
2969 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2971 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2972 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2974 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2975 ========================
2977 New command-line features
2978 -------------------------
2980 User-configurable tags for new messages
2982 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2983 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2984 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2985 to specify this value.
2987 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2989 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2990 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2991 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2993 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2995 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2996 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2998 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3000 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3001 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3002 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3003 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3004 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3007 Indication of author names that match a search
3009 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3010 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3011 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3012 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3013 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3014 messages in the thread are listed first.
3016 New: Python bindings
3017 --------------------
3019 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3020 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3021 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3022 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3024 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3025 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3026 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3029 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3030 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3031 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3033 Emacs interface improvements
3034 ----------------------------
3036 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3038 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3039 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3040 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3041 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3042 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3043 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3044 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3045 but without any of the disadvantages).
3047 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3048 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3049 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3052 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3053 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3054 instead running something like:
3056 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3058 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3059 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3060 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3063 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3065 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3066 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3067 tweaked by the user.
3069 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3070 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3071 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3074 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3075 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3076 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3079 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3081 This support currently relies on an external program,
3082 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3083 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3084 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3085 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3086 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3089 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3090 notmuch) is available via:
3092 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3094 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3095 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3096 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3098 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3100 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3101 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3102 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3103 making this automatic in a future release.
3105 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3107 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3108 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3109 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3110 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3111 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3112 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3115 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3117 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3118 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3119 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3121 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3123 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3124 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3125 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3127 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3128 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3129 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3130 other representation.
3132 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3133 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3136 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3138 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3139 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3140 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3142 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3143 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3144 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3146 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3148 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3149 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3150 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3151 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3152 to display the search result.
3154 More flexible handling of header visibility
3156 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3157 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3158 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3159 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3160 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3161 with the 'h' keybinding.
3163 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3164 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3165 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3167 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3169 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3171 Customizable formatting of search results
3173 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3174 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3175 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3177 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3179 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3181 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3186 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3188 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3189 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3190 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3191 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3197 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3199 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3200 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3202 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3204 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3205 accept are now all accepted.
3210 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3212 Better display of output from failed tests
3214 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3215 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3217 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3218 ========================
3220 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3221 detailed release notes this time!
3223 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3224 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3226 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3227 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3228 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3229 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3236 Better guessing of From: header
3238 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3239 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3240 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3241 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3242 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3245 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3247 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3248 guaranteed to match all messages.
3250 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3252 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3253 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3254 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3255 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3256 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3259 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3262 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3263 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3264 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3265 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3270 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3272 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3273 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3274 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3275 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3277 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3279 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3281 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3282 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3283 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3285 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3287 Previously, the user might see:
3289 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3293 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3295 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3296 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3297 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3298 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3300 Emacs client features
3301 ---------------------
3303 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3305 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3306 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3307 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3308 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3309 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3311 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3314 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3315 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3316 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3317 search with the '*' binding.
3319 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3321 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3322 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3325 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3327 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3328 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3329 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3331 Build-system features
3332 ---------------------
3334 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3336 Add support to configure for many standard options
3338 We include actual support for:
3340 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3342 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3344 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3345 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3347 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3348 separate "make install-emacs"
3350 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3352 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3353 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3354 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3356 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3359 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3360 ========================
3362 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3364 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3365 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3367 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3368 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3369 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3370 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3371 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3372 tags from messages in a thread.
3379 indent-tabs-mode: nil