1 Notmuch 0.21 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
10 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
12 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
13 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
14 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
16 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
18 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
19 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
20 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
21 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
22 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
23 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
28 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
29 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
32 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
35 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
37 Command Line Interface
38 ----------------------
40 Database revision tracking
42 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
43 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
44 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
45 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
50 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
52 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
53 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
55 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
57 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
58 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
59 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
61 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>".
63 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
65 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
66 customization as well.
71 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
72 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`.
74 Database revision tracking
76 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
77 query parser and the new function
78 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
80 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}.
84 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
85 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
86 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
87 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
92 nmbug-status now supports specifying the sort order for each view
94 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
95 ===========================
100 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
102 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
103 ===========================
108 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
110 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
111 =========================
113 Command-Line Interface
114 ----------------------
116 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
118 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
119 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
120 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
122 Path to gpg is now configurable
124 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
125 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
130 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
132 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
137 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
142 Support messages without Message-IDs.
147 Undeprecate single message mboxes
149 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
150 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
152 New error logging facility
154 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
155 output formerly printed to stderr.
157 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
159 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
161 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
163 Fix for rounding of seconds
168 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
170 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
171 docmumentation has been removed.
173 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
175 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
176 some material from the relicensed wiki.
181 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
182 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
183 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
188 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
189 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
190 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
191 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
192 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
193 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
196 git checkout config origin/config
198 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
200 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
201 =========================
206 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
207 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
208 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
209 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
210 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
211 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
212 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
214 Command-Line Interface
215 ----------------------
217 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
219 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
220 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
221 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
222 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
223 script callers should still check the return value.
225 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
227 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
228 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
229 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
230 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
231 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
232 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
233 and returning success even if indexing fails).
235 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
237 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
238 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
239 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
241 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
243 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
244 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
245 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
246 currently unmaintained.
248 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
250 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
251 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
252 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
253 have at least `N` files associated with them.
255 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
257 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
258 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
259 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
260 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
261 count of duplicate addresses.
266 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
268 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
269 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
270 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
273 Improved handling of the unread tag
275 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
276 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
277 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
278 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
279 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
280 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
281 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
283 Expanded default saved search settings
285 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
286 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
288 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
290 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
291 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
292 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
294 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
296 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
297 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
298 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
299 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
300 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
301 the variable for details.
306 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
308 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
309 Representing these independently of the database version number will
310 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
311 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
313 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
315 Previously, library users were required to call
316 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
317 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
318 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
319 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
320 too out of date for that API.
322 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
324 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
325 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
326 atomic section will be aborted.
328 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
329 `notmuch_database_destroy`
331 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
333 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
334 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
335 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
336 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
337 messages into the same thread.
342 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
343 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
344 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
345 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
346 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
347 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
352 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
353 from the config file. Use something like:
357 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
358 "footer": "</body></html>",
367 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
372 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
373 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
374 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
376 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
377 ===========================
382 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
384 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
386 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
388 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
389 structure for signatures changed slightly.
391 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
393 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
396 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
397 ===========================
399 This is a bug fix and portability release.
404 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
406 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
408 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
410 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
412 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
418 Use --quick when starting emacs
420 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
422 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
424 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
426 Command-Line Interface
427 ----------------------
429 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
430 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
435 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
437 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
438 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
440 Fix for phrase indexing
442 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
443 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
444 will affect only newly indexed messages.
449 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
451 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
452 unintentionally removed.
454 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
455 =========================
460 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
461 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
462 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
463 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
464 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
465 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
466 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
467 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
468 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
474 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
476 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
477 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
478 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
479 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
480 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
481 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
482 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
483 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
485 There is a new `path:` search prefix
487 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
488 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
489 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
490 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
493 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
495 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
496 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
497 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
498 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
499 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
500 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
501 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
506 Notmuch database upgrade
508 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
509 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
510 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
511 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
512 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
513 released version of Notmuch before now.
515 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
517 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
518 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
519 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
520 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
522 Message header parsing changes
524 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
525 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
526 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
527 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
528 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
529 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
531 Command-Line Interface
532 ----------------------
534 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
536 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
538 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
540 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
542 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
544 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
545 user does not want it.
547 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
549 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
550 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
551 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
552 support formatted output.
554 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
556 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
557 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
558 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
566 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
567 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
568 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
569 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
570 `~/.emacs` with these.
572 Changed format for saved searches
574 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
575 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
576 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
577 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
580 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
581 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
582 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
583 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
585 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
586 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
587 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
589 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
590 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
591 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
592 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
593 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
595 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
597 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
598 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
599 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
601 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
603 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
604 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
605 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
606 message had been unread).
608 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
609 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
610 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
611 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
613 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
614 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
615 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
617 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
618 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
619 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
620 to tags already present.
624 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
625 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
626 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
627 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
628 these differ from each other.
629 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
631 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
633 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
634 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
635 for these Emacs versions.
637 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
639 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
640 newlines before calling notmuch count.
642 Bug fixes for sender identities
644 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
645 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
646 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
648 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
650 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
651 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
652 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
653 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
655 Reply pushes mark before signature
657 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
658 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
659 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
661 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
663 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
664 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
670 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
671 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
673 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
674 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
675 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
676 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
678 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
679 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
680 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
681 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
682 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
684 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
686 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
687 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
689 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
690 =========================
692 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
693 ---------------------------------------
695 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
696 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
697 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
698 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
699 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
700 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
701 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
705 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
706 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
708 Command-Line Interface
709 ----------------------
711 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
713 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
714 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
715 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
716 print for each message.
718 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
719 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
720 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
721 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
723 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
725 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
726 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
727 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
729 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
731 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
732 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
733 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
734 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
736 `notmuch compact` command
738 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
739 functionality through a more convenient interface than
740 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
741 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
742 move the compacted database into place.
747 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
749 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
750 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
751 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
752 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
753 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
754 and multiple threads.
758 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
760 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
761 search, show and tree mode itself)
763 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
766 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
767 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
769 Customising `notmuch-tree`
771 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
772 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
773 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
774 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
775 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
776 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
777 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
779 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
781 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
782 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
783 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
784 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
785 thread when the search was performed.
787 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
789 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
790 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
791 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
793 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
795 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
796 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
799 Built-in help improvements
801 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
802 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
803 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
805 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
807 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
808 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
809 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
811 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
813 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
814 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
816 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
818 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
819 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
820 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
821 to move some of them to the common keymap.
823 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
825 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
826 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
827 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
828 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
830 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
832 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
833 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
834 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
836 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
838 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
839 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
840 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
842 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
844 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
845 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
846 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
847 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
848 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
850 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
852 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
853 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
854 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
855 the body part of the message.
860 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
861 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
862 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
864 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
865 =========================
867 Command-Line Interface
868 ----------------------
870 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
872 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
873 folder and notmuch index.
875 `notmuch count --batch` option
877 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
878 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
880 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
882 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
883 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
884 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
887 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
889 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
890 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
891 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
892 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
893 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
896 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
898 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
899 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
901 Top level option to specify configuration file
903 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
904 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
906 Bash command-line completion
908 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
909 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
910 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
911 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
912 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
913 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
914 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
915 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
916 bash-completion package.
918 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
923 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
925 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
926 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
927 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
928 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
929 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
930 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
931 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
932 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
934 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
936 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
937 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
938 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
940 Key bindings for next/previous thread
942 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
943 previous thread in the search results.
945 Better handling of errors in search buffers
947 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
948 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
950 Faster search and show
952 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
953 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
954 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
955 threads should show faster.
959 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
960 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
961 in question was now removed from this release.
966 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
967 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
972 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
974 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
975 ===========================
980 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
982 Internal test framework changes
983 -------------------------------
985 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
988 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
989 ===========================
991 Internal test framework changes
992 -------------------------------
994 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
995 build failures in non-interactive environments.
997 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
998 =========================
1003 Date range search support
1005 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1006 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1007 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1008 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1009 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1012 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1014 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1015 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1016 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1017 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1018 but may be removed in a future release.
1020 Command-Line Interface
1021 ----------------------
1023 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1025 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1026 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1028 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1030 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1031 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1032 officially deprecated.
1034 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1036 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1037 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1038 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1040 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1042 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1043 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1046 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1047 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1048 dump/restore format.
1050 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1052 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1053 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1054 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1056 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1058 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1059 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1060 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1062 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1064 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1065 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1066 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1067 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1072 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1074 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1075 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1076 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1077 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1079 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1081 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1082 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1083 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1084 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1085 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1086 the behavior of this, see
1087 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1088 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1090 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1091 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1092 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1094 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1096 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1097 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1100 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1102 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1103 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1104 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1105 simply displayed in place of the message.
1107 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1109 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1110 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1112 Improved text/calendar content handling
1114 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1115 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1116 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1117 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1119 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1121 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1122 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1123 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1124 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1126 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1128 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1129 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1130 for HTML email containing images.
1132 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1134 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1136 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1138 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1141 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1143 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1144 the point where it was.
1146 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1148 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1149 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1150 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1151 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1152 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1154 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1156 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1157 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1158 thread instead of the message id.
1160 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1161 -----------------------------
1163 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1164 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1165 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1166 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1167 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1168 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1169 further details and installation.
1174 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1176 Internal test framework changes
1177 -------------------------------
1179 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1181 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1182 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1183 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1184 can result in buggy behavior.
1186 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1187 =========================
1192 Maildir tag synchronization
1194 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1195 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1196 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1197 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1198 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1199 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1202 Command-Line Interface
1203 ----------------------
1205 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1206 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1207 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1208 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1209 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1215 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1217 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1219 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1220 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1221 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1223 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1225 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1226 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1227 span multiple lines.
1229 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1231 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1232 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1233 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1234 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1235 inside the result or message.
1237 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1239 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1240 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1242 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1243 user-specified formatting
1245 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1246 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1247 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1248 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1249 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1251 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1252 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1254 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1255 ===========================
1260 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1261 compilation error for this contrib package.
1263 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1264 ===========================
1269 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1271 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1272 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1273 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1274 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1276 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1277 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1280 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1281 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1282 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1283 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1286 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1288 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1291 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1292 =========================
1294 Command-Line Interface
1295 ----------------------
1299 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1300 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1301 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1302 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1304 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1305 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1306 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1307 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1311 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1312 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1314 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1315 tag in your query, for example:
1317 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1319 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1320 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1322 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1323 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1325 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1327 Raw show format changes
1329 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1330 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1331 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1332 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1333 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1334 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1335 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1336 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1338 Listing configuration items
1340 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1346 Changes to tagging interface
1348 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1349 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1350 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1351 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1352 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1353 for more information.
1355 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1356 may need to update in custom configurations.
1358 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1360 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1361 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1362 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1363 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1366 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1367 -----------------------------
1369 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1370 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1371 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1372 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1373 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1374 contrib/ from now on.
1379 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1380 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1382 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1383 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1385 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1386 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1387 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1389 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1390 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1392 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1393 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1394 returning the new database object or directory object.
1401 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1402 compatible with go 1.
1404 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1405 =========================
1407 Command-Line Interface
1408 ----------------------
1412 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1413 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1414 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1415 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1417 Mail store folder/file ignore
1419 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1420 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1421 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1423 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1424 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1426 Unified help and manual pages
1428 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1429 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1432 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1434 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1435 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1443 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1444 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1445 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1446 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1448 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1450 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1451 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1453 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1456 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1457 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1458 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1460 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1462 should be changed to:
1464 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1466 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1468 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1469 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1471 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1473 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1474 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1475 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1476 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1477 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1478 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1482 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1483 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1484 of Mailing List Archives.
1486 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1488 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1489 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1492 Show view archiving key binding changes
1494 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1495 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1496 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1497 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1498 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1501 Support text/calendar MIME type
1503 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1506 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1508 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1509 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1510 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1511 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1513 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1515 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1516 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1517 messages blue by default in the search view.
1521 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1522 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1529 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1532 Python bindings changes
1533 -----------------------
1535 Python 3.2 compatibility
1537 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1539 Added missing unicode conversions
1541 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1542 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1543 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1548 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1550 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1551 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1552 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1553 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1554 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1556 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1557 ===========================
1562 Fix error handling in python bindings
1564 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1565 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1566 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1567 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1569 Quote MML tags in replies
1571 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1572 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1573 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1574 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1575 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1576 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1577 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1578 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1580 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1581 =========================
1583 Command-Line Interface
1584 ----------------------
1588 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1589 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1590 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1591 importing new messages into the database.
1593 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1595 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1596 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1597 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1602 Automatic tag query optimization
1604 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1605 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1606 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1608 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1610 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1611 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1612 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1617 Reduction of memory leaks
1619 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1620 and fixed in this release.
1627 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1628 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1629 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1632 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1634 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1635 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1636 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1639 Improvements in saved search management
1641 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1642 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1643 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1645 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1647 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1648 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1649 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1651 New face for crypto parts headers
1653 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1654 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1655 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1658 Use space as default thousands separator
1660 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1661 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1662 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1664 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1665 buttonized id: links
1667 New function notmuch-show-advance
1669 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1670 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1671 be bound to SPC with:
1673 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1675 Various performance improvements
1680 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1681 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1684 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1685 ===========================
1690 Fix crash in python bindings
1692 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1693 for some, but not all users.
1695 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1696 ===========================
1701 Fix `--help` argument
1703 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1704 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1705 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1707 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1708 =========================
1710 New build and testing features
1711 ------------------------------
1713 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1714 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1715 prerequisites is improved.
1717 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1719 New command-line features
1720 -------------------------
1722 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1724 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1725 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1728 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1730 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1731 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1732 favour of using stdout.
1734 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1736 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1737 limit the number of results shown.
1739 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1741 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1742 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1745 New emacs UI features
1746 ---------------------
1748 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1750 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1751 starting with "tag:".
1753 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1755 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1756 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1758 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1760 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1762 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1764 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1765 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1770 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1772 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1774 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1775 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1776 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1777 requires a database rebuild:
1779 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1780 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1782 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1784 New collection of add-on tools
1785 ------------------------------
1787 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1788 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1789 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1792 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1794 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1795 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1796 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1798 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1799 ========================
1801 New, general features
1802 ---------------------
1804 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1806 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1807 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1808 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1809 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1810 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1817 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1818 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1820 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1824 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1825 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1826 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1829 Python bindings changes
1830 -----------------------
1832 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1834 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1835 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1836 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1837 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1838 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1839 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1841 Ruby bindings changes
1842 ---------------------
1844 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1845 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1846 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1847 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1852 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1854 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1855 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1857 Reply formatting cleanup
1858 ------------------------
1860 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1861 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1863 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1864 ========================
1866 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1868 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1869 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1870 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1871 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1874 Improved Build system portability
1876 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1877 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1878 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1880 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1882 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1884 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1886 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1887 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1888 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1890 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1891 ========================
1893 Vim interface improvements
1894 --------------------------
1896 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1898 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1899 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1900 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1901 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1902 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1904 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1906 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1907 * fix compose temp file name
1909 Python Bindings changes
1910 -----------------------
1912 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1914 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1915 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1917 Build-System improvements
1918 -------------------------
1920 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1922 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1925 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1926 ==========================
1931 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1933 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1934 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1936 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1937 =======================
1939 New, general features
1940 ---------------------
1942 Folder-based searching
1944 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1945 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1946 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1950 For example, one might use things such as:
1956 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1957 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1959 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1960 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1961 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1962 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1964 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1965 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1966 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1969 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1970 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1972 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1974 Support for PGP/MIME
1976 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1977 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1978 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1980 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1982 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1983 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1985 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1986 notmuch will receive these tags.
1988 New command-line features
1989 -------------------------
1991 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1993 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1994 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1996 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1998 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1999 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2000 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2002 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2004 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2005 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2006 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2007 which parts a signature part applies).
2009 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2011 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2012 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2013 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2014 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2015 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2018 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2020 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2021 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2022 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2023 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2024 by translating it internally to the new call.
2026 Performance improvements
2027 ------------------------
2029 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2031 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2032 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2033 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2035 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2036 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2038 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2040 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2041 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2042 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2044 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2045 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2046 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2047 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2049 Faster initial indexing
2051 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2052 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2053 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2055 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2057 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2058 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2059 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2060 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2062 New emacs-interface features
2063 ----------------------------
2065 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2067 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2068 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2069 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2070 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2071 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2072 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2074 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2076 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2077 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2078 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2079 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2081 User-selectable From address
2083 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2084 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2085 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2086 will prompt for the from address to use.
2088 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2089 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2090 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2092 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2093 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2094 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2097 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2099 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2100 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2102 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2104 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2106 ----- Original Message -----
2108 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2109 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2110 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2111 citations work much like conventional citations.
2113 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2115 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2116 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2117 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2118 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2119 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2121 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2122 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2124 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2126 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2127 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2128 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2130 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2132 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2133 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2134 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2135 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2136 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2138 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2140 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2143 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2145 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2147 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2149 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2152 Vim interface improvements
2153 --------------------------
2155 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2157 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2158 * Implementing archive in show view
2159 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2160 * Add delete commands
2163 Bindings improvements
2164 ---------------------
2166 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2168 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2169 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2171 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2173 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2177 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2178 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2179 `list(Messages)` works now
2180 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2182 These allow, for example:
2184 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2186 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2188 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2194 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2196 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2199 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2201 New build-system features
2202 -------------------------
2204 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2206 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2207 the configure script from some other directory:
2214 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2216 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2217 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2218 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2219 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2220 manual invocation of configure.
2222 New test-suite feature
2223 ----------------------
2225 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2227 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2228 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2229 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2230 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2231 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2234 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2236 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2237 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2238 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2239 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2240 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2241 are updated to take advantage of this.
2243 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2245 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2246 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2247 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2248 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2254 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2256 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2257 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2258 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2260 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2262 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2264 to:user@elsewhere.com
2266 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2268 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2270 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2272 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2273 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2274 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2277 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2278 from the Received headers in some cases
2280 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2281 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2283 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2285 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2287 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2289 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2290 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2291 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2293 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2294 -------------------------
2296 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2298 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2299 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2300 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2302 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2304 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2305 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2306 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2309 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2311 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2312 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2313 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2314 fixed to avoid this bug.
2316 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2318 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2319 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2321 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2322 ========================
2324 New, general features
2325 ---------------------
2327 Maildir-flag synchronization
2329 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2330 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2339 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2341 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2342 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2343 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2344 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2346 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2347 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2348 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2349 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2352 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2354 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2355 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2356 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2358 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2359 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2361 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2362 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2364 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2365 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2366 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2368 New library features
2369 --------------------
2371 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2373 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2374 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2375 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2376 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2378 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2379 message with the new function:
2381 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2383 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2384 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2385 over all available filenames for a given message.
2387 New command-line features
2388 -------------------------
2390 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2392 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2393 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2394 access to the mail store itself.
2396 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2397 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2398 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2399 name of a script containing:
2401 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2403 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2404 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2410 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2412 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2414 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2416 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2417 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2418 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2419 now produces nothing).
2421 Emacs interface improvements
2422 ----------------------------
2424 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2426 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2428 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2430 Display current thread subject in a header line
2432 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2434 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2436 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2437 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2438 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2439 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2440 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2441 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2442 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2444 Vim interface improvements
2445 --------------------------
2447 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2449 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2450 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2456 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2458 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2459 ========================
2461 New command-line features
2462 -------------------------
2464 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2466 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2467 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2468 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2470 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2471 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2472 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2473 scripts. For example:
2475 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2476 <operations-on> "$file"
2479 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2481 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2482 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2483 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2484 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2485 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2486 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2488 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2490 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2491 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2492 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2493 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2495 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2497 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2498 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2499 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2500 default rather than Bcc.
2502 New library features
2503 --------------------
2505 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2507 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2508 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2513 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2515 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2516 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2517 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2518 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2519 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2520 notmuch customize interface.
2522 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2524 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2525 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2526 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2527 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2529 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2531 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2532 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2533 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2534 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2536 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2538 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2539 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2540 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2541 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2542 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2543 notmuch customize interface.
2545 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2547 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2548 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2549 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2550 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2551 notmuch customize interface.
2553 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2555 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2556 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2557 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2558 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2561 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2563 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2564 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2565 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2568 New build-system features
2569 -------------------------
2571 Various portability fixes have been applied
2573 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2574 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2575 more portable than ever before.
2577 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2579 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2580 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2581 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2583 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2584 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2585 automatically run ldconfig.
2587 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2588 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2589 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2591 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2592 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2593 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2594 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2596 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2598 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2599 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2600 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2601 used in the resulting Makefile.
2603 New test-suite features
2604 -----------------------
2606 New modularization of test suite
2608 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2609 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2610 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2611 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2612 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2613 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2614 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2615 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2617 New testing of emacs interface
2619 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2620 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2621 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2622 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2623 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2624 database via the FCC setting.
2629 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2631 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2632 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2633 persistent error of the form:
2635 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2637 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2638 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2640 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2642 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2643 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2644 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2646 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2648 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2649 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2650 parsing the notmuch results).
2652 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2654 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2657 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2658 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2659 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2664 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2666 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2667 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2668 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2669 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2670 the emacs interface.
2672 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2674 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2675 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2676 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2678 Python-binding fixes
2679 --------------------
2681 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2683 Debian-specific fixes
2684 ---------------------
2686 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2688 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2689 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2690 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2693 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2694 ==========================
2699 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2701 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2702 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2703 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2704 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2706 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2708 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2709 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2710 want notmuch to crash.
2715 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2717 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2718 directory does not exist
2723 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2725 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2726 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2728 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2729 ========================
2731 New command-line features
2732 -------------------------
2734 User-configurable tags for new messages
2736 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2737 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2738 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2739 to specify this value.
2741 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2743 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2744 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2745 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2747 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2749 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2750 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2752 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2754 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2755 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2756 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2757 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2758 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2761 Indication of author names that match a search
2763 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2764 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2765 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2766 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2767 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2768 messages in the thread are listed first.
2770 New: Python bindings
2771 --------------------
2773 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2774 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2775 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2776 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2778 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2779 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2780 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2783 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2784 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2785 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2787 Emacs interface improvements
2788 ----------------------------
2790 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2792 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2793 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2794 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2795 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2796 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2797 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2798 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2799 but without any of the disadvantages).
2801 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2802 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2803 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2806 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2807 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2808 instead running something like:
2810 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2812 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2813 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2814 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2817 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2819 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2820 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2821 tweaked by the user.
2823 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2824 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2825 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2828 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2829 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2830 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2833 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2835 This support currently relies on an external program,
2836 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2837 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2838 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2839 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2840 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2843 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2844 notmuch) is available via:
2846 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2848 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2849 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2850 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2852 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2854 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2855 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2856 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2857 making this automatic in a future release.
2859 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2861 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2862 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2863 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2864 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2865 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2866 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2869 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2871 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2872 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2873 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2875 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2877 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2878 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2879 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2881 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2882 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2883 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2884 other representation.
2886 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2887 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2890 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2892 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2893 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2894 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2896 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2897 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2898 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2900 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2902 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2903 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2904 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2905 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2906 to display the search result.
2908 More flexible handling of header visibility
2910 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2911 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2912 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2913 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2914 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2915 with the 'h' keybinding.
2917 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2918 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2919 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2921 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2923 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2925 Customizable formatting of search results
2927 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2928 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2929 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2931 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2933 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2935 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2940 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2942 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2943 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2944 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2945 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2951 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2953 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2954 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2956 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2958 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2959 accept are now all accepted.
2964 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2966 Better display of output from failed tests
2968 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2969 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2971 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2972 ========================
2974 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2975 detailed release notes this time!
2977 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2978 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2980 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2981 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2982 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2983 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2990 Better guessing of From: header
2992 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2993 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2994 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2995 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2996 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2999 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3001 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3002 guaranteed to match all messages.
3004 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3006 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3007 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3008 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3009 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3010 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3013 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3016 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3017 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3018 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3019 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3024 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3026 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3027 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3028 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3029 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3031 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3033 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3035 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3036 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3037 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3039 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3041 Previously, the user might see:
3043 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3047 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3049 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3050 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3051 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3052 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3054 Emacs client features
3055 ---------------------
3057 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3059 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3060 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3061 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3062 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3063 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3065 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3068 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3069 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3070 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3071 search with the '*' binding.
3073 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3075 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3076 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3079 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3081 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3082 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3083 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3085 Build-system features
3086 ---------------------
3088 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3090 Add support to configure for many standard options
3092 We include actual support for:
3094 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3096 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3098 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3099 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3101 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3102 separate "make install-emacs"
3104 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3106 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3107 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3108 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3110 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3113 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3114 ========================
3116 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3118 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3119 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3121 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3122 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3123 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3124 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3125 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3126 tags from messages in a thread.
3133 indent-tabs-mode: nil