1 Notmuch 0.23.2 (UNRELEASED)
6 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
8 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
9 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
10 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
12 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
14 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
16 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
17 ===========================
22 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
24 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
29 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
31 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
32 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
35 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
36 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
38 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
40 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
41 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
42 bug, and hence the test.
44 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
45 =========================
50 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
52 Support for single argument date: queries
54 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
56 Support for blocking opens
58 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
59 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
61 Support for named queries
63 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
64 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
65 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
72 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
73 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
74 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
75 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
77 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
79 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
84 Support for compile time options
86 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
87 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
90 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
92 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
93 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
94 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
95 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
101 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
103 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
104 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
105 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
107 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
108 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
109 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
110 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
111 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
112 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
113 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
115 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
116 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
119 Make internal address completion customizable
121 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
122 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
123 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
124 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
127 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
129 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
130 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
131 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
132 completion for the current buffer.
134 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
135 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
136 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
140 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
141 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
142 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
143 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
144 will be added instead.
146 Face customization is easier
148 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
149 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
150 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
151 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
153 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
158 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
163 Go bindings moved to contrib
165 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
167 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
169 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
170 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
172 The same issue occured with sort modes.
174 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
175 ===========================
182 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
183 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
185 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
187 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
189 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
190 ===========================
195 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
197 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
202 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
207 Use `env` to locate perl.
212 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
214 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
216 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
218 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
220 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
221 =========================
228 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
229 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
231 Limited support for S/MIME messages
233 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
234 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
235 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
240 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
241 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
242 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
244 Command Line Interface
245 ----------------------
247 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
249 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
254 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
259 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
261 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
262 parts are now included in replies.
264 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
265 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
266 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
267 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
269 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
271 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
273 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
275 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
276 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
277 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
278 forwards only the current message.
280 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
282 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
283 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
284 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
285 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
286 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
287 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
288 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
289 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
292 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
293 longer generate empty buffers
295 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
296 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
297 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
298 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
299 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
301 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
303 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
306 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
308 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
311 Address completion improvements
313 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
314 you previously configured one, customize the variable
315 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
316 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
317 interactive address completion.
319 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
321 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
322 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
323 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
328 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
329 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
330 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
336 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
337 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
338 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
339 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
340 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
341 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
343 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
344 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
345 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
346 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
347 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
348 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
350 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
351 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
353 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
354 =========================
359 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
362 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
364 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
365 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
366 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
368 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
369 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
371 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
372 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
373 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
375 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
377 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
378 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
379 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
380 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
381 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
382 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
387 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
388 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
391 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
394 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
396 Command Line Interface
397 ----------------------
399 Database revision tracking
401 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
402 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
403 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
404 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
406 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
408 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
409 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
410 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
411 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
412 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
413 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
414 manual page for further information.
419 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
421 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
422 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
424 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
426 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
427 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
428 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
430 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
432 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
434 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
435 customization as well.
437 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
439 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
441 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
443 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
445 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
446 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
447 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
448 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
450 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
452 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
453 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
454 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
455 this variable to 10000.
460 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
461 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
463 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
465 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
466 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
467 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
468 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
469 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
470 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
471 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
472 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
473 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
476 Database revision tracking
478 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
479 query parser and the new function
480 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
482 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
486 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
487 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
488 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
489 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
494 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
496 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
497 ===========================
502 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
504 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
505 ===========================
510 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
512 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
513 =========================
515 Command-Line Interface
516 ----------------------
518 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
520 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
521 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
522 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
524 Path to gpg is now configurable
526 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
527 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
532 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
534 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
539 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
544 Support messages without Message-IDs.
549 Undeprecate single message mboxes
551 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
552 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
554 New error logging facility
556 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
557 output formerly printed to stderr.
559 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
561 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
563 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
565 Fix for rounding of seconds
570 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
572 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
573 docmumentation has been removed.
575 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
577 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
578 some material from the relicensed wiki.
583 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
584 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
585 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
590 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
591 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
592 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
593 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
594 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
595 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
598 git checkout config origin/config
600 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
602 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
603 =========================
608 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
609 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
610 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
611 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
612 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
613 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
614 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
616 Command-Line Interface
617 ----------------------
619 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
621 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
622 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
623 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
624 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
625 script callers should still check the return value.
627 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
629 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
630 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
631 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
632 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
633 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
634 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
635 and returning success even if indexing fails).
637 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
639 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
640 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
641 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
643 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
645 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
646 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
647 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
648 currently unmaintained.
650 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
652 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
653 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
654 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
655 have at least `N` files associated with them.
657 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
659 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
660 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
661 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
662 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
663 count of duplicate addresses.
668 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
670 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
671 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
672 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
675 Improved handling of the unread tag
677 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
678 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
679 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
680 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
681 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
682 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
683 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
685 Expanded default saved search settings
687 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
688 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
690 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
692 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
693 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
694 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
696 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
698 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
699 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
700 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
701 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
702 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
703 the variable for details.
708 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
710 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
711 Representing these independently of the database version number will
712 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
713 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
715 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
717 Previously, library users were required to call
718 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
719 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
720 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
721 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
722 too out of date for that API.
724 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
726 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
727 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
728 atomic section will be aborted.
730 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
731 `notmuch_database_destroy`
733 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
735 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
736 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
737 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
738 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
739 messages into the same thread.
744 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
745 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
746 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
747 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
748 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
749 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
754 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
755 from the config file. Use something like:
759 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
760 "footer": "</body></html>",
769 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
774 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
775 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
776 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
778 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
779 ===========================
784 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
786 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
788 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
790 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
791 structure for signatures changed slightly.
793 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
795 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
798 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
799 ===========================
801 This is a bug fix and portability release.
806 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
808 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
810 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
812 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
814 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
820 Use --quick when starting emacs
822 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
824 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
826 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
828 Command-Line Interface
829 ----------------------
831 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
832 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
837 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
839 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
840 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
842 Fix for phrase indexing
844 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
845 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
846 will affect only newly indexed messages.
851 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
853 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
854 unintentionally removed.
856 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
857 =========================
862 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
863 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
864 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
865 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
866 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
867 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
868 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
869 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
870 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
876 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
878 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
879 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
880 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
881 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
882 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
883 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
884 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
885 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
887 There is a new `path:` search prefix
889 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
890 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
891 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
892 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
895 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
897 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
898 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
899 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
900 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
901 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
902 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
903 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
908 Notmuch database upgrade
910 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
911 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
912 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
913 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
914 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
915 released version of Notmuch before now.
917 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
919 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
920 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
921 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
922 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
924 Message header parsing changes
926 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
927 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
928 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
929 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
930 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
931 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
933 Command-Line Interface
934 ----------------------
936 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
938 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
940 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
942 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
944 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
946 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
947 user does not want it.
949 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
951 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
952 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
953 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
954 support formatted output.
956 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
958 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
959 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
960 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
968 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
969 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
970 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
971 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
972 `~/.emacs` with these.
974 Changed format for saved searches
976 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
977 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
978 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
979 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
982 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
983 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
984 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
985 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
987 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
988 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
989 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
991 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
992 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
993 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
994 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
995 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
997 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
999 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1000 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1001 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1003 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1005 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1006 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1007 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1008 message had been unread).
1010 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1011 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1012 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1013 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1015 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1016 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1017 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1019 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1020 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1021 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1022 to tags already present.
1026 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1027 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1028 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1029 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1030 these differ from each other.
1031 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1033 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1035 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1036 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1037 for these Emacs versions.
1039 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1041 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1042 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1044 Bug fixes for sender identities
1046 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1047 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1048 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1050 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1052 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1053 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1054 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1055 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1057 Reply pushes mark before signature
1059 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1060 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1061 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1063 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1065 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1066 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1072 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1073 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1075 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1076 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1077 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1078 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1080 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1081 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1082 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1083 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1084 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1086 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1088 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1089 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1091 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1092 =========================
1094 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1095 ---------------------------------------
1097 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1098 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1099 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1100 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1101 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1102 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1103 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1107 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1108 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1110 Command-Line Interface
1111 ----------------------
1113 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1115 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1116 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1117 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1118 print for each message.
1120 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1121 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1122 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1123 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1125 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1127 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1128 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1129 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1131 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1133 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1134 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1135 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1136 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1138 `notmuch compact` command
1140 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1141 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1142 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1143 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1144 move the compacted database into place.
1149 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1151 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1152 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1153 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1154 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1155 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1156 and multiple threads.
1158 Using `notmuch-tree`
1160 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1162 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1163 search, show and tree mode itself)
1165 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1168 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1169 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1171 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1173 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1174 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1175 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1176 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1177 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1178 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1179 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1181 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1183 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1184 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1185 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1186 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1187 thread when the search was performed.
1189 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1191 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1192 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1193 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1195 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1197 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1198 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1201 Built-in help improvements
1203 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1204 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1205 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1207 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1209 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1210 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1211 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1213 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1215 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1216 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1218 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1220 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1221 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1222 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1223 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1225 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1227 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1228 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1229 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1230 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1232 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1234 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1235 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1236 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1238 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1240 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1241 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1242 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1244 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1246 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1247 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1248 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1249 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1250 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1252 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1254 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1255 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1256 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1257 the body part of the message.
1262 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1263 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1264 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1266 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1267 =========================
1269 Command-Line Interface
1270 ----------------------
1272 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1274 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1275 folder and notmuch index.
1277 `notmuch count --batch` option
1279 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1280 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1282 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1284 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1285 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1286 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1289 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1291 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1292 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1293 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1294 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1295 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1298 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1300 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1301 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1303 Top level option to specify configuration file
1305 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1306 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1308 Bash command-line completion
1310 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1311 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1312 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1313 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1314 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1315 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1316 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1317 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1318 bash-completion package.
1320 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1325 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1327 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1328 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1329 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1330 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1331 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1332 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1333 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1334 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1336 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1338 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1339 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1340 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1342 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1344 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1345 previous thread in the search results.
1347 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1349 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1350 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1352 Faster search and show
1354 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1355 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1356 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1357 threads should show faster.
1361 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1362 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1363 in question was now removed from this release.
1368 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1369 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1374 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1376 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1377 ===========================
1382 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1384 Internal test framework changes
1385 -------------------------------
1387 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1388 being unimplemented.
1390 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1391 ===========================
1393 Internal test framework changes
1394 -------------------------------
1396 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1397 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1399 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1400 =========================
1405 Date range search support
1407 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1408 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1409 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1410 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1411 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1414 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1416 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1417 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1418 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1419 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1420 but may be removed in a future release.
1422 Command-Line Interface
1423 ----------------------
1425 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1427 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1428 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1430 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1432 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1433 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1434 officially deprecated.
1436 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1438 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1439 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1440 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1442 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1444 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1445 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1448 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1449 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1450 dump/restore format.
1452 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1454 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1455 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1456 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1458 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1460 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1461 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1462 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1464 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1466 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1467 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1468 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1469 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1474 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1476 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1477 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1478 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1479 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1481 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1483 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1484 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1485 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1486 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1487 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1488 the behavior of this, see
1489 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1490 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1492 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1493 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1494 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1496 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1498 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1499 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1502 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1504 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1505 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1506 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1507 simply displayed in place of the message.
1509 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1511 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1512 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1514 Improved text/calendar content handling
1516 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1517 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1518 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1519 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1521 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1523 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1524 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1525 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1526 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1528 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1530 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1531 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1532 for HTML email containing images.
1534 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1536 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1538 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1540 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1543 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1545 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1546 the point where it was.
1548 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1550 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1551 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1552 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1553 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1554 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1556 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1558 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1559 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1560 thread instead of the message id.
1562 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1563 -----------------------------
1565 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1566 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1567 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1568 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1569 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1570 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1571 further details and installation.
1576 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1578 Internal test framework changes
1579 -------------------------------
1581 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1583 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1584 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1585 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1586 can result in buggy behavior.
1588 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1589 =========================
1594 Maildir tag synchronization
1596 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1597 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1598 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1599 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1600 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1601 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1604 Command-Line Interface
1605 ----------------------
1607 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1608 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1609 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1610 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1611 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1617 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1619 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1621 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1622 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1623 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1625 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1627 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1628 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1629 span multiple lines.
1631 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1633 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1634 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1635 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1636 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1637 inside the result or message.
1639 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1641 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1642 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1644 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1645 user-specified formatting
1647 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1648 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1649 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1650 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1651 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1653 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1654 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1656 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1657 ===========================
1662 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1663 compilation error for this contrib package.
1665 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1666 ===========================
1671 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1673 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1674 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1675 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1676 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1678 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1679 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1682 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1683 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1684 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1685 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1688 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1690 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1693 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1694 =========================
1696 Command-Line Interface
1697 ----------------------
1701 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1702 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1703 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1704 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1706 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1707 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1708 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1709 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1713 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1714 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1716 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1717 tag in your query, for example:
1719 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1721 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1722 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1724 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1725 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1727 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1729 Raw show format changes
1731 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1732 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1733 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1734 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1735 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1736 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1737 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1738 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1740 Listing configuration items
1742 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1748 Changes to tagging interface
1750 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1751 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1752 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1753 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1754 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1755 for more information.
1757 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1758 may need to update in custom configurations.
1760 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1762 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1763 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1764 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1765 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1768 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1769 -----------------------------
1771 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1772 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1773 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1774 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1775 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1776 contrib/ from now on.
1781 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1782 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1784 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1785 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1787 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1788 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1789 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1791 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1792 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1794 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1795 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1796 returning the new database object or directory object.
1803 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1804 compatible with go 1.
1806 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1807 =========================
1809 Command-Line Interface
1810 ----------------------
1814 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1815 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1816 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1817 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1819 Mail store folder/file ignore
1821 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1822 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1823 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1825 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1826 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1828 Unified help and manual pages
1830 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1831 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1834 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1836 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1837 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1845 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1846 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1847 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1848 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1850 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1852 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1853 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1855 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1858 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1859 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1860 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1862 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1864 should be changed to:
1866 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1868 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1870 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1871 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1873 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1875 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1876 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1877 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1878 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1879 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1880 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1884 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1885 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1886 of Mailing List Archives.
1888 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1890 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1891 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1894 Show view archiving key binding changes
1896 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1897 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1898 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1899 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1900 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1903 Support text/calendar MIME type
1905 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1908 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1910 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1911 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1912 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1913 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1915 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1917 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1918 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1919 messages blue by default in the search view.
1923 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1924 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1931 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1934 Python bindings changes
1935 -----------------------
1937 Python 3.2 compatibility
1939 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1941 Added missing unicode conversions
1943 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1944 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1945 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1950 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1952 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1953 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1954 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1955 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1956 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1958 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1959 ===========================
1964 Fix error handling in python bindings
1966 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1967 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1968 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1969 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1971 Quote MML tags in replies
1973 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1974 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1975 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1976 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1977 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1978 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1979 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1980 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1982 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1983 =========================
1985 Command-Line Interface
1986 ----------------------
1990 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1991 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1992 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1993 importing new messages into the database.
1995 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1997 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1998 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1999 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2004 Automatic tag query optimization
2006 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2007 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2008 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2010 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2012 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2013 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2014 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2019 Reduction of memory leaks
2021 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2022 and fixed in this release.
2029 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2030 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2031 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2034 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2036 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2037 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2038 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2041 Improvements in saved search management
2043 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2044 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2045 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2047 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2049 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2050 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2051 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2053 New face for crypto parts headers
2055 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2056 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2057 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2060 Use space as default thousands separator
2062 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2063 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2064 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2066 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2067 buttonized id: links
2069 New function notmuch-show-advance
2071 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2072 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2073 be bound to SPC with:
2075 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2077 Various performance improvements
2082 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2083 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2086 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2087 ===========================
2092 Fix crash in python bindings
2094 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2095 for some, but not all users.
2097 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2098 ===========================
2103 Fix `--help` argument
2105 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2106 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2107 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2109 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2110 =========================
2112 New build and testing features
2113 ------------------------------
2115 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2116 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2117 prerequisites is improved.
2119 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2121 New command-line features
2122 -------------------------
2124 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2126 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2127 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2130 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2132 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2133 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2134 favour of using stdout.
2136 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2138 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2139 limit the number of results shown.
2141 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2143 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2144 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2147 New emacs UI features
2148 ---------------------
2150 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2152 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2153 starting with "tag:".
2155 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2157 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2158 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2160 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2162 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2164 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2166 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2167 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2172 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2174 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2176 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2177 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2178 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2179 requires a database rebuild:
2181 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2182 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2184 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2186 New collection of add-on tools
2187 ------------------------------
2189 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2190 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2191 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2194 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2196 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2197 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2198 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2200 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2201 ========================
2203 New, general features
2204 ---------------------
2206 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2208 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2209 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2210 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2211 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2212 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2219 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2220 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2222 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2226 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2227 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2228 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2231 Python bindings changes
2232 -----------------------
2234 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2236 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2237 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2238 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2239 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2240 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2241 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2243 Ruby bindings changes
2244 ---------------------
2246 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2247 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2248 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2249 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2254 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2256 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2257 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2259 Reply formatting cleanup
2260 ------------------------
2262 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2263 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2265 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2266 ========================
2268 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2270 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2271 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2272 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2273 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2276 Improved Build system portability
2278 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2279 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2280 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2282 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2284 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2286 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2288 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2289 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2290 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2292 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2293 ========================
2295 Vim interface improvements
2296 --------------------------
2298 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2300 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2301 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2302 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2303 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2304 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2306 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2308 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2309 * fix compose temp file name
2311 Python Bindings changes
2312 -----------------------
2314 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2316 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2317 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2319 Build-System improvements
2320 -------------------------
2322 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2324 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2327 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2328 ==========================
2333 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2335 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2336 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2338 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2339 =======================
2341 New, general features
2342 ---------------------
2344 Folder-based searching
2346 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2347 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2348 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2352 For example, one might use things such as:
2358 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2359 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2361 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2362 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2363 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2364 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2366 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2367 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2368 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2371 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2372 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2374 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2376 Support for PGP/MIME
2378 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2379 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2380 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2382 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2384 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2385 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2387 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2388 notmuch will receive these tags.
2390 New command-line features
2391 -------------------------
2393 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2395 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2396 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2398 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2400 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2401 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2402 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2404 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2406 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2407 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2408 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2409 which parts a signature part applies).
2411 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2413 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2414 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2415 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2416 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2417 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2420 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2422 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2423 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2424 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2425 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2426 by translating it internally to the new call.
2428 Performance improvements
2429 ------------------------
2431 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2433 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2434 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2435 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2437 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2438 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2440 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2442 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2443 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2444 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2446 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2447 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2448 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2449 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2451 Faster initial indexing
2453 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2454 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2455 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2457 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2459 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2460 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2461 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2462 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2464 New emacs-interface features
2465 ----------------------------
2467 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2469 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2470 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2471 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2472 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2473 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2474 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2476 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2478 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2479 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2480 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2481 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2483 User-selectable From address
2485 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2486 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2487 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2488 will prompt for the from address to use.
2490 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2491 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2492 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2494 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2495 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2496 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2499 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2501 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2502 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2504 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2506 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2508 ----- Original Message -----
2510 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2511 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2512 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2513 citations work much like conventional citations.
2515 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2517 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2518 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2519 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2520 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2521 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2523 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2524 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2526 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2528 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2529 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2530 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2532 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2534 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2535 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2536 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2537 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2538 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2540 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2542 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2545 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2547 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2549 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2551 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2554 Vim interface improvements
2555 --------------------------
2557 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2559 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2560 * Implementing archive in show view
2561 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2562 * Add delete commands
2565 Bindings improvements
2566 ---------------------
2568 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2570 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2571 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2573 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2575 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2579 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2580 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2581 `list(Messages)` works now
2582 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2584 These allow, for example:
2586 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2588 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2590 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2596 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2598 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2601 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2603 New build-system features
2604 -------------------------
2606 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2608 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2609 the configure script from some other directory:
2616 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2618 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2619 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2620 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2621 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2622 manual invocation of configure.
2624 New test-suite feature
2625 ----------------------
2627 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2629 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2630 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2631 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2632 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2633 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2636 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2638 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2639 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2640 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2641 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2642 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2643 are updated to take advantage of this.
2645 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2647 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2648 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2649 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2650 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2656 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2658 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2659 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2660 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2662 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2664 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2666 to:user@elsewhere.com
2668 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2670 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2672 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2674 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2675 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2676 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2679 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2680 from the Received headers in some cases
2682 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2683 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2685 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2687 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2689 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2691 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2692 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2693 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2695 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2696 -------------------------
2698 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2700 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2701 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2702 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2704 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2706 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2707 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2708 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2711 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2713 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2714 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2715 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2716 fixed to avoid this bug.
2718 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2720 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2721 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2723 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2724 ========================
2726 New, general features
2727 ---------------------
2729 Maildir-flag synchronization
2731 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2732 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2741 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2743 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2744 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2745 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2746 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2748 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2749 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2750 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2751 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2754 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2756 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2757 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2758 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2760 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2761 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2763 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2764 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2766 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2767 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2768 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2770 New library features
2771 --------------------
2773 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2775 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2776 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2777 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2778 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2780 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2781 message with the new function:
2783 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2785 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2786 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2787 over all available filenames for a given message.
2789 New command-line features
2790 -------------------------
2792 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2794 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2795 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2796 access to the mail store itself.
2798 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2799 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2800 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2801 name of a script containing:
2803 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2805 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2806 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2812 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2814 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2816 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2818 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2819 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2820 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2821 now produces nothing).
2823 Emacs interface improvements
2824 ----------------------------
2826 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2828 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2830 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2832 Display current thread subject in a header line
2834 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2836 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2838 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2839 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2840 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2841 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2842 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2843 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2844 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2846 Vim interface improvements
2847 --------------------------
2849 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2851 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2852 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2858 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2860 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2861 ========================
2863 New command-line features
2864 -------------------------
2866 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2868 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2869 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2870 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2872 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2873 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2874 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2875 scripts. For example:
2877 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2878 <operations-on> "$file"
2881 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2883 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2884 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2885 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2886 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2887 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2888 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2890 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2892 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2893 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2894 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2895 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2897 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2899 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2900 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2901 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2902 default rather than Bcc.
2904 New library features
2905 --------------------
2907 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2909 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2910 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2915 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2917 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2918 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2919 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2920 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2921 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2922 notmuch customize interface.
2924 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2926 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2927 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2928 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2929 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2931 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2933 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2934 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2935 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2936 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2938 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2940 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2941 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2942 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2943 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2944 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2945 notmuch customize interface.
2947 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2949 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2950 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2951 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2952 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2953 notmuch customize interface.
2955 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2957 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2958 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2959 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2960 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2963 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2965 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2966 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2967 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2970 New build-system features
2971 -------------------------
2973 Various portability fixes have been applied
2975 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2976 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2977 more portable than ever before.
2979 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2981 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2982 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2983 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2985 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2986 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2987 automatically run ldconfig.
2989 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2990 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2991 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2993 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2994 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2995 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2996 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2998 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3000 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3001 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3002 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3003 used in the resulting Makefile.
3005 New test-suite features
3006 -----------------------
3008 New modularization of test suite
3010 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3011 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3012 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3013 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3014 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3015 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3016 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3017 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3019 New testing of emacs interface
3021 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3022 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3023 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3024 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3025 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3026 database via the FCC setting.
3031 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3033 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3034 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3035 persistent error of the form:
3037 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3039 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3040 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3042 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3044 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3045 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3046 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3048 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3050 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3051 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3052 parsing the notmuch results).
3054 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3056 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3059 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3060 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3061 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3066 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3068 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3069 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3070 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3071 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3072 the emacs interface.
3074 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3076 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3077 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3078 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3080 Python-binding fixes
3081 --------------------
3083 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3085 Debian-specific fixes
3086 ---------------------
3088 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3090 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3091 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3092 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3095 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3096 ==========================
3101 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3103 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3104 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3105 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3106 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3108 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3110 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3111 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3112 want notmuch to crash.
3117 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3119 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3120 directory does not exist
3125 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3127 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3128 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3130 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3131 ========================
3133 New command-line features
3134 -------------------------
3136 User-configurable tags for new messages
3138 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3139 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3140 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3141 to specify this value.
3143 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3145 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3146 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3147 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3149 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3151 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3152 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3154 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3156 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3157 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3158 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3159 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3160 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3163 Indication of author names that match a search
3165 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3166 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3167 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3168 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3169 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3170 messages in the thread are listed first.
3172 New: Python bindings
3173 --------------------
3175 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3176 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3177 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3178 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3180 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3181 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3182 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3185 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3186 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3187 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3189 Emacs interface improvements
3190 ----------------------------
3192 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3194 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3195 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3196 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3197 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3198 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3199 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3200 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3201 but without any of the disadvantages).
3203 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3204 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3205 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3208 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3209 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3210 instead running something like:
3212 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3214 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3215 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3216 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3219 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3221 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3222 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3223 tweaked by the user.
3225 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3226 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3227 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3230 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3231 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3232 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3235 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3237 This support currently relies on an external program,
3238 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3239 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3240 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3241 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3242 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3245 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3246 notmuch) is available via:
3248 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3250 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3251 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3252 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3254 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3256 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3257 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3258 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3259 making this automatic in a future release.
3261 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3263 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3264 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3265 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3266 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3267 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3268 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3271 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3273 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3274 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3275 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3277 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3279 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3280 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3281 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3283 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3284 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3285 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3286 other representation.
3288 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3289 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3292 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3294 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3295 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3296 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3298 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3299 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3300 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3302 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3304 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3305 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3306 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3307 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3308 to display the search result.
3310 More flexible handling of header visibility
3312 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3313 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3314 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3315 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3316 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3317 with the 'h' keybinding.
3319 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3320 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3321 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3323 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3325 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3327 Customizable formatting of search results
3329 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3330 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3331 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3333 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3335 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3337 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3342 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3344 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3345 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3346 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3347 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3353 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3355 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3356 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3358 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3360 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3361 accept are now all accepted.
3366 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3368 Better display of output from failed tests
3370 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3371 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3373 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3374 ========================
3376 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3377 detailed release notes this time!
3379 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3380 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3382 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3383 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3384 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3385 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3392 Better guessing of From: header
3394 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3395 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3396 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3397 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3398 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3401 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3403 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3404 guaranteed to match all messages.
3406 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3408 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3409 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3410 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3411 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3412 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3415 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3418 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3419 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3420 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3421 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3426 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3428 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3429 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3430 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3431 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3433 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3435 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3437 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3438 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3439 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3441 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3443 Previously, the user might see:
3445 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3449 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3451 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3452 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3453 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3454 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3456 Emacs client features
3457 ---------------------
3459 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3461 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3462 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3463 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3464 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3465 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3467 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3470 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3471 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3472 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3473 search with the '*' binding.
3475 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3477 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3478 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3481 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3483 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3484 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3485 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3487 Build-system features
3488 ---------------------
3490 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3492 Add support to configure for many standard options
3494 We include actual support for:
3496 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3498 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3500 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3501 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3503 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3504 separate "make install-emacs"
3506 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3508 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3509 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3510 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3512 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3515 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3516 ========================
3518 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3520 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3521 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3523 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3524 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3525 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3526 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3527 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3528 tags from messages in a thread.
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