1 New add-on tool: notmuch-web
2 -----------------------------
4 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-web` is a very thin web client. It
5 supports a full search interface for one user: there is no facility
6 for multiple users provided today. See the notmuch-web README file
9 Be careful about running it on a network-connected system: it will
10 expose a web interface that requires no authentication but exposes
13 Notmuch 0.35 (2022-02-06)
14 =========================
19 Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
21 Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
23 Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
24 `built_with.sexp_queries`.
26 Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
28 Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
33 Improve handling of leading/trailing punctation and space for
36 Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
38 Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
39 `show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
44 Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
46 Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
49 Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
50 third party completion frameworks.
52 Make citation formating more robust against whitespace.
54 Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
56 Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
57 signed and/or encrypted messages.
59 Add notmuch-logo.svg and use it in notmuch-hello view, replacing
62 Make header line in show buffers optional.
64 Add customizable names for search buffers.
69 Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
71 Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
72 installed version of notmuch.
74 Ignore more configure options.
79 Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
82 Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
87 Add `matched` property to message objects.
89 Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
90 deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
96 Use `database.mail_root` for path completion in bash/zsh.
98 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
99 ===========================
104 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
105 xapian/ subdirectory.
107 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
108 --------------------------
110 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
111 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
113 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
114 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
116 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
119 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
120 ===========================
125 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
126 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
127 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
129 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
130 --------------------------
132 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
133 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
135 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
136 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
137 and database location options as the library does.
139 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
141 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
142 ===========================
147 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
148 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
149 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
150 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
151 status returns for the same 3 functions.
153 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
154 =========================
159 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
160 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
161 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
162 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
163 s-expression query support.
168 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
173 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
175 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
177 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
179 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
181 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
182 ===========================
187 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
189 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
190 ===========================
195 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
196 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
199 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
200 =========================
205 Correct documentation about transactions.
207 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
208 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
210 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
215 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
221 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
222 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
223 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
225 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
227 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
229 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
231 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
233 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
235 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
238 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
243 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
244 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
245 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
246 split, following an old library API change.
251 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
256 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
258 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
260 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
261 ===========================
266 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
269 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
272 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
273 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
278 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
280 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
281 ===========================
286 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
292 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
297 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
302 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
307 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
308 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
310 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
311 ===========================
316 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
317 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
318 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
320 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
321 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
322 database in a pre-new hook.
324 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
325 default worked only in "notmuch config".
330 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
331 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
333 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
334 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
335 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
337 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
338 =========================
343 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
344 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
345 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
346 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
347 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
348 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
349 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
350 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
351 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
352 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
353 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
358 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
359 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
361 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
362 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
363 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
364 - `notmuch_config_get`
366 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
367 now exposed (and generalized).
369 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
370 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
371 session has been fixed.
373 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
374 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
379 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
380 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
382 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
383 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
388 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
389 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
390 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
391 when prompting for senders.
393 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
394 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
397 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
399 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
401 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
402 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
403 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
404 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
405 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
406 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
407 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
409 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
410 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
412 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
413 you should change it to:
414 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
416 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
417 ===========================
422 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
427 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
429 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
430 ===========================
435 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
440 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
445 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
447 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
448 ===========================
453 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
454 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
456 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
457 ===========================
462 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
467 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
468 with a C++ header for some compilers.
470 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
472 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
473 =========================
478 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
479 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
480 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
482 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
484 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
486 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
488 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
491 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
493 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
494 search, show and tree mode)
496 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
499 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
502 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
503 always be newest first.
508 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
509 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
510 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
516 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
517 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
518 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
519 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
521 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
522 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
523 non-status providing versions.
525 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
526 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
528 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
529 promised in the documentation.
534 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
535 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
536 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
541 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
542 development version).
547 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
552 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
554 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
555 =========================
560 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
561 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
562 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
565 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
571 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
572 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
573 notmuch-properties(7)).
578 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
579 has protected headers (see
580 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
581 notmuch-properties(7)).
586 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
588 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
589 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
595 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
598 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
599 ===========================
604 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
606 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
611 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
613 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
614 ===========================
619 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
620 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
622 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
623 ===========================
628 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
630 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
631 =========================
636 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
637 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
640 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
641 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
642 the set of headers to be indexed.
644 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
647 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
648 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
649 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
652 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
653 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
654 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
656 Command Line Interface
657 ----------------------
659 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
662 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
664 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
665 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
666 more details about what is included there. This status includes
667 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
672 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
673 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
675 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
677 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
679 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
681 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
683 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
686 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
688 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
689 and may be removed in a future release.
691 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
697 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
699 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
700 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
705 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
706 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
707 cryptography support.
712 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
713 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
714 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
716 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
717 ===========================
719 Command line interface
720 ----------------------
722 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
723 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
725 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
726 ===========================
731 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
732 by message properties.
737 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
739 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
740 ===========================
745 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
750 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
751 now needed to build this documentation.
753 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
754 ===========================
759 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
760 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
762 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
763 =========================
770 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
771 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
772 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
773 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
774 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
777 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
779 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
780 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
781 correct encoding for such messages.
783 Command Line Interface
784 ----------------------
786 Support relative database paths
788 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
789 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
790 to $HOME of the invoking user.
795 Improve stderr handling
797 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
798 needed on e.g. macOS.
800 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
802 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
807 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
808 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
814 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
815 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
821 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
822 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
825 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
826 =========================
831 Add support for thread:{} queries
833 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
834 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
835 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
837 Command Line Interface
838 ----------------------
840 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
842 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
844 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
846 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
847 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
848 does not have to be available during message receipt.
853 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
859 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
860 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
862 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
863 ===========================
868 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
870 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
871 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
872 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
874 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
876 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
877 related abort in `notmuch show`.
879 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
880 ===========================
885 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
886 better late than never.
889 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
890 =========================
892 Command Line Interface
893 ----------------------
895 Support for re-indexing existing messages
897 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
898 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
899 change the way specific messages are indexed.
901 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
902 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
903 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
905 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
907 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
909 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
911 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
912 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
913 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
914 the setting of `new.tags`.
916 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
918 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
920 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
922 This inserts into the top level folder.
924 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
926 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
928 New option --output=address for notmuch address
930 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
932 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
934 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
935 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
936 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
938 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
943 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
945 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
946 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
947 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
948 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
949 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
950 config set index.decrypt true".
952 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
953 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
954 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
955 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
956 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
957 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
958 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
959 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
961 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
962 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
963 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
964 this feature without considering the security of your index.
969 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
971 Use make-process when available
973 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
974 notmuch command without using temporary files.
979 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
981 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
982 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
983 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
984 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
986 New functions to count files
988 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
989 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
991 New function to remove properties
993 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
994 drop all properties with a common pattern:
995 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
997 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
999 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
1000 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
1001 possibility of NULL was not documented.
1003 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
1005 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
1006 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
1007 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
1008 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
1009 operator may decide to change from message to message.
1016 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
1017 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
1018 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
1024 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
1026 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
1027 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
1029 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
1031 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
1033 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
1035 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
1040 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
1041 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
1043 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
1044 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
1045 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
1046 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
1047 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
1048 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
1053 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
1055 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
1056 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
1057 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
1058 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
1060 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
1061 ===========================
1066 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
1067 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
1070 Command Line Interface
1071 ----------------------
1073 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
1074 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
1077 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
1078 ===========================
1080 Command Line Interface
1081 ----------------------
1083 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
1084 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
1089 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
1092 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
1093 ===========================
1098 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1101 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1102 =========================
1107 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1109 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1111 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1113 Command Line Interface
1114 ----------------------
1116 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1118 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1123 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1125 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1126 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1129 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1134 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1136 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1137 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1139 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1141 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1142 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1145 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1147 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1149 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1151 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1152 ===========================
1154 Command Line Interface
1155 ----------------------
1157 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1162 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1164 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1165 ===========================
1170 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1172 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1173 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1176 Command Line Interface
1177 ----------------------
1179 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1181 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1183 Fix bug in dump header
1185 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1186 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1187 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1192 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1194 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1195 =========================
1200 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1202 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1205 Command Line Interface
1206 ----------------------
1208 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1210 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1211 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1212 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1214 New default output format to 3
1216 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1217 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1218 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1219 default format changes.
1224 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1226 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1227 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1228 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1229 or tree view to resume.
1231 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1232 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1233 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1236 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1237 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1241 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1242 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1243 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1244 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1245 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1249 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1250 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1251 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1252 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1253 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1254 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1258 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1259 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1261 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1263 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1264 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1265 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1266 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1267 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1268 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1269 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1270 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1273 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1275 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1276 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1277 only tagged the current thread.)
1279 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1281 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1282 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1283 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1285 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1287 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1288 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1289 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1290 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1291 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1292 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1293 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1295 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1297 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1298 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1299 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1304 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1306 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1309 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1311 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1314 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1315 ===========================
1320 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1322 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1323 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1324 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1327 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1328 ===========================
1330 Command Line Interface
1331 ----------------------
1333 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1338 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1340 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1341 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1342 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1344 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1345 ===========================
1350 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1351 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1353 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1354 ===========================
1356 Command Line Interface
1357 ----------------------
1359 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1361 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1362 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1363 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1368 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1370 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1371 ===========================
1373 Command Line Interface
1374 ----------------------
1376 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1381 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1383 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1384 ===========================
1389 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1391 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1392 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1393 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1395 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1397 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1399 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1400 ===========================
1405 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1407 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1412 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1414 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1415 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1416 the original colours.
1418 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1419 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1421 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1423 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1424 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1425 bug, and hence the test.
1427 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1428 =========================
1430 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1431 ---------------------
1433 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1435 Support for single argument date: queries
1437 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1439 Support for blocking opens
1441 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1442 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1444 Support for named queries
1446 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1447 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1448 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1453 Message property API
1455 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1456 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1457 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1458 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1460 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1462 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1467 Support for compile time options
1469 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1470 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1473 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1475 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1476 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1477 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1478 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1479 scripts to ignore it.
1484 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1486 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1487 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1488 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1490 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1491 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1492 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1493 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1494 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1495 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1496 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1498 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1499 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1502 Make internal address completion customizable
1504 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1505 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1506 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1507 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1510 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1512 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1513 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1514 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1515 completion for the current buffer.
1517 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1518 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1519 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1523 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1524 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1525 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1526 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1527 will be added instead.
1529 Face customization is easier
1531 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1532 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1533 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1534 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1536 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1541 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1546 Go bindings moved to contrib
1548 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1550 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1552 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1553 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1555 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1557 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1558 ===========================
1565 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1566 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1568 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1570 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1572 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1573 ===========================
1578 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1580 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1585 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1590 Use `env` to locate perl.
1595 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1597 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1599 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1601 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1603 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1604 =========================
1611 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1612 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1614 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1616 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1617 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1618 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1623 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1624 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1625 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1627 Command Line Interface
1628 ----------------------
1630 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1632 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1637 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1642 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1644 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1645 parts are now included in replies.
1647 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1648 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1649 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1650 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1652 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1654 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1656 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1658 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1659 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1660 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1661 forwards only the current message.
1663 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1665 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1666 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1667 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1668 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1669 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1670 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1671 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1672 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1675 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1676 longer generate empty buffers
1678 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1679 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1680 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1681 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1682 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1684 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1686 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1689 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1691 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1694 Address completion improvements
1696 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1697 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1698 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1699 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1700 interactive address completion.
1702 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1704 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1705 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1706 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1711 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1712 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1713 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1719 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1720 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1721 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1722 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1723 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1724 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1726 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1727 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1728 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1729 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1730 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1731 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1733 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1734 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1736 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1737 =========================
1742 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1745 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1747 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1748 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1749 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1751 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1752 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1754 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1755 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1756 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1758 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1760 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1761 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1762 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1763 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1764 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1765 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1770 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1771 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1774 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1775 option to configure.
1777 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1779 Command Line Interface
1780 ----------------------
1782 Database revision tracking
1784 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1785 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1786 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1787 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1789 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1791 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1792 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1793 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1794 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1795 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1796 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1797 manual page for further information.
1802 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1804 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1805 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1807 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1809 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1810 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1811 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1813 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1815 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1817 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1818 customization as well.
1820 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1822 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1824 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1826 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1828 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1829 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1830 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1831 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1833 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1835 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1836 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1837 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1838 this variable to 10000.
1843 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1844 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1846 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1848 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1849 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1850 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1851 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1852 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1853 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1854 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1855 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1856 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1859 Database revision tracking
1861 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1862 query parser and the new function
1863 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1865 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1867 Deprecated functions
1869 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1870 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1871 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1872 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1877 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1879 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1880 ===========================
1885 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1887 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1888 ===========================
1893 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1895 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1896 =========================
1898 Command-Line Interface
1899 ----------------------
1901 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1903 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1904 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1905 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1907 Path to gpg is now configurable
1909 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1910 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1915 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1917 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1922 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1927 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1932 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1934 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1935 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1937 New error logging facility
1939 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1940 output formerly printed to stderr.
1942 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1944 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1946 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1948 Fix for rounding of seconds
1953 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1955 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1956 documentation has been removed.
1958 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1960 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1961 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1966 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1967 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1968 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1973 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1974 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1975 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1976 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1977 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1978 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1981 git checkout config origin/config
1983 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1985 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1986 =========================
1991 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1992 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1993 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1994 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1995 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1996 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1997 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1999 Command-Line Interface
2000 ----------------------
2002 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
2004 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
2005 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
2006 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
2007 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
2008 script callers should still check the return value.
2010 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
2012 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
2013 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
2014 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
2015 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
2016 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
2017 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
2018 and returning success even if indexing fails).
2020 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
2022 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
2023 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
2024 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
2026 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
2028 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
2029 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
2030 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
2031 currently unmaintained.
2033 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
2035 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
2036 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
2037 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
2038 have at least `N` files associated with them.
2040 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
2042 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
2043 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
2044 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
2045 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
2046 count of duplicate addresses.
2051 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
2053 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
2054 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
2055 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
2058 Improved handling of the unread tag
2060 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
2061 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
2062 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
2063 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
2064 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
2065 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
2066 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
2068 Expanded default saved search settings
2070 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
2071 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
2073 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
2075 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
2076 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
2077 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
2079 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
2081 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
2082 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
2083 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
2084 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
2085 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
2086 the variable for details.
2091 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
2093 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2094 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2095 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2096 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2098 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2100 Previously, library users were required to call
2101 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2102 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2103 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2104 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2105 too out of date for that API.
2107 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2109 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2110 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2111 atomic section will be aborted.
2113 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2114 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2116 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2118 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2119 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2120 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2121 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2122 messages into the same thread.
2127 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2128 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2129 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2130 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2131 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2132 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2137 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2138 from the config file. Use something like:
2142 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2143 "footer": "</body></html>",
2152 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2157 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2158 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2159 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2161 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2162 ===========================
2167 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2169 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2171 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2173 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2174 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2176 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2178 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2181 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2182 ===========================
2184 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2189 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2191 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2193 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2195 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2197 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2203 Use --quick when starting emacs
2205 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2207 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2209 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2211 Command-Line Interface
2212 ----------------------
2214 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2215 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2220 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2222 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2223 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2225 Fix for phrase indexing
2227 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2228 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2229 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2234 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2236 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2237 unintentionally removed.
2239 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2240 =========================
2245 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2246 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2247 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2248 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2249 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2250 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2251 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2252 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2253 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2259 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2261 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2262 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2263 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2264 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2265 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2266 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2267 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2268 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2270 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2272 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2273 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2274 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2275 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2278 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2280 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2281 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2282 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2283 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2284 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2285 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2286 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2291 Notmuch database upgrade
2293 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2294 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2295 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2296 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2297 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2298 released version of Notmuch before now.
2300 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2302 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2303 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2304 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2305 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2307 Message header parsing changes
2309 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2310 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2311 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2312 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2313 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2314 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2316 Command-Line Interface
2317 ----------------------
2319 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2321 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2323 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2325 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2327 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2329 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2330 user does not want it.
2332 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2334 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2335 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2336 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2337 support formatted output.
2339 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2341 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2342 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2343 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2351 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2352 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2353 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2354 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2355 `~/.emacs` with these.
2357 Changed format for saved searches
2359 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2360 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2361 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2362 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2365 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2366 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2367 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2368 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2370 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2371 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2372 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2374 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2375 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2376 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2377 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2378 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2380 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2382 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2383 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2384 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2386 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2388 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2389 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2390 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2391 message had been unread).
2393 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2394 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2395 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2396 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2398 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2399 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2400 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2402 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2403 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2404 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2405 to tags already present.
2409 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2410 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2411 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2412 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2413 these differ from each other.
2414 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2416 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2418 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2419 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2420 for these Emacs versions.
2422 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2424 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2425 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2427 Bug fixes for sender identities
2429 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2430 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2431 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2433 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2435 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2436 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2437 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2438 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2440 Reply pushes mark before signature
2442 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2443 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2444 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2446 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2448 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2449 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2455 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2456 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2458 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2459 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2460 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2461 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2463 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2464 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2465 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2466 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2467 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2469 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2471 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2472 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2474 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2475 =========================
2477 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2478 ---------------------------------------
2480 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2481 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2482 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2483 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2484 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2485 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2486 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2490 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2491 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2493 Command-Line Interface
2494 ----------------------
2496 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2498 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2499 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2500 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2501 print for each message.
2503 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2504 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2505 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2506 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2508 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2510 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2511 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2512 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2514 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2516 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2517 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2518 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2519 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2521 `notmuch compact` command
2523 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2524 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2525 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2526 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2527 move the compacted database into place.
2532 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2534 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2535 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2536 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2537 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2538 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2539 and multiple threads.
2541 Using `notmuch-tree`
2543 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2545 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2546 search, show and tree mode itself)
2548 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2551 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2552 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2554 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2556 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2557 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2558 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2559 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2560 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2561 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2562 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2564 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2566 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2567 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2568 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2569 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2570 thread when the search was performed.
2572 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2574 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2575 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2576 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2578 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2580 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2581 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2584 Built-in help improvements
2586 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2587 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2588 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2590 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2592 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2593 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2594 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2596 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2598 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2599 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2601 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2603 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2604 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2605 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2606 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2608 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2610 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2611 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2612 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2613 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2615 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2617 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2618 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2619 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2621 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2623 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2624 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2625 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2627 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2629 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2630 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2631 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2632 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2633 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2635 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2637 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2638 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2639 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2640 the body part of the message.
2645 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2646 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2647 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2649 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2650 =========================
2652 Command-Line Interface
2653 ----------------------
2655 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2657 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2658 folder and notmuch index.
2660 `notmuch count --batch` option
2662 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2663 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2665 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2667 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2668 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2669 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2672 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2674 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2675 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2676 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2677 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2678 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2681 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2683 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2684 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2686 Top level option to specify configuration file
2688 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2689 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2691 Bash command-line completion
2693 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2694 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2695 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2696 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2697 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2698 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2699 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2700 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2701 bash-completion package.
2703 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2708 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2710 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2711 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2712 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2713 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2714 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2715 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2716 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2717 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2719 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2721 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2722 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2723 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2725 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2727 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2728 previous thread in the search results.
2730 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2732 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2733 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2735 Faster search and show
2737 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2738 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2739 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2740 threads should show faster.
2744 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2745 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2746 in question was now removed from this release.
2751 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2752 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2757 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2759 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2760 ===========================
2765 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2767 Internal test framework changes
2768 -------------------------------
2770 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2771 being unimplemented.
2773 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2774 ===========================
2776 Internal test framework changes
2777 -------------------------------
2779 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2780 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2782 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2783 =========================
2788 Date range search support
2790 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2791 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2792 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2793 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2794 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2797 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2799 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2800 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2801 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2802 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2803 but may be removed in a future release.
2805 Command-Line Interface
2806 ----------------------
2808 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2810 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2811 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2813 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2815 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2816 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2817 officially deprecated.
2819 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2821 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2822 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2823 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2825 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2827 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2828 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2831 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2832 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2833 dump/restore format.
2835 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2837 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2838 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2839 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2841 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2843 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2844 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2845 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2847 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2849 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2850 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2851 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2852 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2857 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2859 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2860 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2861 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2862 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2864 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2866 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2867 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2868 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2869 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2870 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2871 the behavior of this, see
2872 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2873 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2875 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2876 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2877 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2879 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2881 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2882 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2885 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2887 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2888 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2889 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2890 simply displayed in place of the message.
2892 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2894 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2895 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2897 Improved text/calendar content handling
2899 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2900 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2901 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2902 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2904 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2906 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2907 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2908 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2909 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2911 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2913 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2914 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2915 for HTML email containing images.
2917 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2919 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2921 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2923 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2926 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2928 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2929 the point where it was.
2931 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2933 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2934 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2935 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2936 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2937 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2939 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2941 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2942 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2943 thread instead of the message id.
2945 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2946 -----------------------------
2948 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2949 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2950 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2951 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2952 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2953 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2954 further details and installation.
2959 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2961 Internal test framework changes
2962 -------------------------------
2964 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2966 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2967 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2968 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2969 can result in buggy behavior.
2971 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2972 =========================
2977 Maildir tag synchronization
2979 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2980 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2981 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2982 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2983 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2984 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2987 Command-Line Interface
2988 ----------------------
2990 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2991 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2992 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2993 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2994 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
3000 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
3002 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
3004 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
3005 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
3006 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
3008 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
3010 It is now possible to embed newlines in
3011 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
3012 span multiple lines.
3014 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
3016 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
3017 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
3018 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
3019 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
3020 inside the result or message.
3022 Search now uses the JSON format internally
3024 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
3025 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
3027 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
3028 user-specified formatting
3030 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
3031 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
3032 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
3033 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
3034 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
3036 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
3037 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
3039 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
3040 ===========================
3045 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
3046 compilation error for this contrib package.
3048 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
3049 ===========================
3054 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
3056 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
3057 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
3058 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
3059 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
3061 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
3062 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
3065 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
3066 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
3067 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
3068 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
3071 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
3073 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
3076 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
3077 =========================
3079 Command-Line Interface
3080 ----------------------
3084 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
3085 for a reply message and full information about the original message
3086 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
3087 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
3089 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
3090 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
3091 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
3092 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3096 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3097 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3099 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3100 tag in your query, for example:
3102 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3104 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3105 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3107 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3108 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3110 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3112 Raw show format changes
3114 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3115 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3116 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3117 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3118 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3119 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3120 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3121 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3123 Listing configuration items
3125 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3131 Changes to tagging interface
3133 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3134 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3135 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3136 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3137 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3138 for more information.
3140 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3141 may need to update in custom configurations.
3143 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3145 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3146 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3147 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3148 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3151 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3152 -----------------------------
3154 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3155 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3156 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3157 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3158 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3159 contrib/ from now on.
3164 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3165 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3167 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3168 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3170 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3171 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3172 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3174 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3175 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3177 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3178 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3179 returning the new database object or directory object.
3186 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3187 compatible with go 1.
3189 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3190 =========================
3192 Command-Line Interface
3193 ----------------------
3197 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3198 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3199 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3200 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3202 Mail store folder/file ignore
3204 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3205 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3206 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3208 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3209 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3211 Unified help and manual pages
3213 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3214 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3217 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3219 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3220 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3228 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3229 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3230 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3231 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3233 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3235 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3236 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3238 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3241 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3242 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3243 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3245 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3247 should be changed to:
3249 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3251 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3253 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3254 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3256 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3258 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3259 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3260 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3261 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3262 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3263 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3267 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3268 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3269 of Mailing List Archives.
3271 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3273 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3274 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3277 Show view archiving key binding changes
3279 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3280 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3281 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3282 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3283 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3286 Support text/calendar MIME type
3288 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3291 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3293 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3294 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3295 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3296 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3298 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3300 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3301 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3302 messages blue by default in the search view.
3306 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3307 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3314 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3317 Python bindings changes
3318 -----------------------
3320 Python 3.2 compatibility
3322 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3324 Added missing unicode conversions
3326 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3327 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3328 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3333 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3335 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3336 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3337 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3338 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3339 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3341 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3342 ===========================
3347 Fix error handling in python bindings
3349 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3350 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3351 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3352 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3354 Quote MML tags in replies
3356 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3357 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3358 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3359 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3360 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3361 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3362 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3363 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3365 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3366 =========================
3368 Command-Line Interface
3369 ----------------------
3373 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3374 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3375 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3376 importing new messages into the database.
3378 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3380 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3381 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3382 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3387 Automatic tag query optimization
3389 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3390 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3391 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3393 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3395 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3396 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3397 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3402 Reduction of memory leaks
3404 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3405 and fixed in this release.
3412 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3413 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3414 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3417 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3419 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3420 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3421 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3424 Improvements in saved search management
3426 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3427 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3428 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3430 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3432 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3433 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3434 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3436 New face for crypto parts headers
3438 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3439 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3440 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3443 Use space as default thousands separator
3445 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3446 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3447 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3449 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3450 buttonized id: links
3452 New function notmuch-show-advance
3454 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3455 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3456 be bound to SPC with:
3458 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3460 Various performance improvements
3465 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3466 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3469 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3470 ===========================
3475 Fix crash in python bindings
3477 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3478 for some, but not all users.
3480 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3481 ===========================
3486 Fix `--help` argument
3488 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3489 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3490 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3492 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3493 =========================
3495 New build and testing features
3496 ------------------------------
3498 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3499 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3500 prerequisites is improved.
3502 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3504 New command-line features
3505 -------------------------
3507 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3509 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3510 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3513 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3515 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3516 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3517 favour of using stdout.
3519 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3521 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3522 limit the number of results shown.
3524 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3526 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3527 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3530 New emacs UI features
3531 ---------------------
3533 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3535 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3536 starting with "tag:".
3538 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3540 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3541 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3543 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3545 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3547 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3549 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3550 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3555 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3557 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3559 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3560 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3561 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3562 requires a database rebuild:
3564 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3565 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3567 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3569 New collection of add-on tools
3570 ------------------------------
3572 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3573 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3574 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3577 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3579 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3580 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3581 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3583 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3584 ========================
3586 New, general features
3587 ---------------------
3589 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3591 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3592 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3593 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3594 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3595 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3602 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3603 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3605 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3609 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3610 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3611 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3614 Python bindings changes
3615 -----------------------
3617 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3619 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3620 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3621 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3622 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3623 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3624 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3626 Ruby bindings changes
3627 ---------------------
3629 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3630 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3631 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3632 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3637 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3639 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3640 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3642 Reply formatting cleanup
3643 ------------------------
3645 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3646 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3648 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3649 ========================
3651 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3653 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3654 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3655 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3656 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3659 Improved Build system portability
3661 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3662 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3663 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3665 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3667 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3669 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3671 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3672 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3673 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3675 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3676 ========================
3678 Vim interface improvements
3679 --------------------------
3681 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3683 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3684 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3685 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3686 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3687 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3689 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3691 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3692 * fix compose temp file name
3694 Python Bindings changes
3695 -----------------------
3697 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3699 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3700 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3702 Build-System improvements
3703 -------------------------
3705 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3707 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3710 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3711 ==========================
3716 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3718 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3719 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3721 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3722 =======================
3724 New, general features
3725 ---------------------
3727 Folder-based searching
3729 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3730 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3731 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3735 For example, one might use things such as:
3741 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3742 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3744 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3745 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3746 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3747 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3749 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3750 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3751 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3754 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3755 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3757 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3759 Support for PGP/MIME
3761 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3762 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3763 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3765 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3767 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3768 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3770 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3771 notmuch will receive these tags.
3773 New command-line features
3774 -------------------------
3776 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3778 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3779 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3781 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3783 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3784 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3785 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3787 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3789 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3790 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3791 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3792 which parts a signature part applies).
3794 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3796 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3797 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3798 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3799 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3800 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3803 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3805 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3806 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3807 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3808 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3809 by translating it internally to the new call.
3811 Performance improvements
3812 ------------------------
3814 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3816 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3817 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3818 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3820 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3821 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3823 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3825 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3826 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3827 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3829 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3830 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3831 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3832 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3834 Faster initial indexing
3836 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3837 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3838 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3840 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3842 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3843 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3844 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3845 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3847 New emacs-interface features
3848 ----------------------------
3850 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3852 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3853 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3854 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3855 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3856 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3857 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3859 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3861 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3862 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3863 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3864 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3866 User-selectable From address
3868 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3869 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3870 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3871 will prompt for the from address to use.
3873 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3874 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3875 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3877 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3878 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3879 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3882 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3884 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3885 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3887 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3889 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3891 ----- Original Message -----
3893 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3894 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3895 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3896 citations work much like conventional citations.
3898 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3900 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3901 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3902 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3903 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3904 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3906 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3907 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3909 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3911 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3912 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3913 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3915 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3917 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3918 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3919 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3920 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3921 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3923 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3925 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3928 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3930 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3932 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3934 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3937 Vim interface improvements
3938 --------------------------
3940 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3942 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3943 * Implementing archive in show view
3944 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3945 * Add delete commands
3948 Bindings improvements
3949 ---------------------
3951 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3953 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3954 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3956 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3958 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3962 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3963 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3964 `list(Messages)` works now
3965 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3967 These allow, for example:
3969 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3971 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3973 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3979 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3981 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3984 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3986 New build-system features
3987 -------------------------
3989 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3991 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3992 the configure script from some other directory:
3999 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
4001 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
4002 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
4003 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
4004 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
4005 manual invocation of configure.
4007 New test-suite feature
4008 ----------------------
4010 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
4012 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
4013 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
4014 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
4015 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
4016 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
4019 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
4021 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
4022 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
4023 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
4024 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
4025 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
4026 are updated to take advantage of this.
4028 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
4030 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
4031 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
4032 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
4033 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
4039 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
4041 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
4042 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
4043 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
4045 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
4047 This fixed a bug where a search for:
4049 to:user@elsewhere.com
4051 would incorrectly match a message sent:
4053 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
4055 Fix --output=json when search has no results
4057 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
4058 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
4059 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
4062 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
4063 from the Received headers in some cases
4065 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
4066 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
4068 Cleaned up several memory leaks
4070 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
4072 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
4074 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
4075 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
4076 interface and were never intended to be exported.
4078 Emacs-interface bug fixes
4079 -------------------------
4081 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
4083 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
4084 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
4085 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
4087 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
4089 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
4090 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
4091 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4094 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4096 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4097 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4098 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4099 fixed to avoid this bug.
4101 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4103 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4104 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4106 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4107 ========================
4109 New, general features
4110 ---------------------
4112 Maildir-flag synchronization
4114 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4115 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4124 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4126 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4127 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4128 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4129 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4131 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4132 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4133 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4134 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4137 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4139 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4140 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4141 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4143 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4144 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4146 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4147 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4149 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4150 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4151 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4153 New library features
4154 --------------------
4156 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4158 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4159 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4160 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4161 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4163 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4164 message with the new function:
4166 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4168 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4169 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4170 over all available filenames for a given message.
4172 New command-line features
4173 -------------------------
4175 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4177 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4178 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4179 access to the mail store itself.
4181 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4182 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4183 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4184 name of a script containing:
4186 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4188 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4189 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4195 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4197 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4199 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4201 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4202 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4203 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4204 now produces nothing).
4206 Emacs interface improvements
4207 ----------------------------
4209 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4211 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4213 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4215 Display current thread subject in a header line
4217 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4219 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4221 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4222 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4223 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4224 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4225 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4226 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4227 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4229 Vim interface improvements
4230 --------------------------
4232 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4234 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4235 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4241 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4243 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4244 ========================
4246 New command-line features
4247 -------------------------
4249 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4251 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4252 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4253 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4255 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4256 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4257 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4258 scripts. For example:
4260 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4261 <operations-on> "$file"
4264 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4266 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4267 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4268 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4269 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4270 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4271 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4273 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4275 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4276 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4277 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4278 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4280 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4282 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4283 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4284 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4285 default rather than Bcc.
4287 New library features
4288 --------------------
4290 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4292 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4293 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4298 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4300 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4301 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4302 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4303 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4304 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4305 notmuch customize interface.
4307 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4309 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4310 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4311 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4312 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4314 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4316 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4317 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4318 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4319 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4321 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4323 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4324 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4325 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4326 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4327 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4328 notmuch customize interface.
4330 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4332 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4333 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4334 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4335 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4336 notmuch customize interface.
4338 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4340 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4341 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4342 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4343 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4346 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4348 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4349 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4350 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4353 New build-system features
4354 -------------------------
4356 Various portability fixes have been applied
4358 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4359 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4360 more portable than ever before.
4362 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4364 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4365 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4366 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4368 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4369 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4370 automatically run ldconfig.
4372 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4373 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4374 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4376 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4377 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4378 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4379 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4381 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4383 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4384 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4385 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4386 used in the resulting Makefile.
4388 New test-suite features
4389 -----------------------
4391 New modularization of test suite
4393 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4394 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4395 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4396 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4397 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4398 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4399 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4400 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4402 New testing of emacs interface
4404 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4405 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4406 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4407 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4408 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4409 database via the FCC setting.
4414 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4416 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4417 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4418 persistent error of the form:
4420 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4422 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4423 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4425 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4427 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4428 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4429 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4431 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4433 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4434 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4435 parsing the notmuch results).
4437 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4439 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4442 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4443 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4444 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4449 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4451 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4452 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4453 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4454 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4455 the emacs interface.
4457 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4459 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4460 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4461 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4463 Python-binding fixes
4464 --------------------
4466 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4468 Debian-specific fixes
4469 ---------------------
4471 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4473 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4474 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4475 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4478 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4479 ==========================
4484 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4486 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4487 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4488 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4489 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4491 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4493 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4494 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4495 want notmuch to crash.
4500 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4502 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4503 directory does not exist
4508 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4510 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4511 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4513 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4514 ========================
4516 New command-line features
4517 -------------------------
4519 User-configurable tags for new messages
4521 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4522 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4523 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4524 to specify this value.
4526 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4528 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4529 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4530 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4532 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4534 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4535 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4537 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4539 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4540 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4541 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4542 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4543 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4546 Indication of author names that match a search
4548 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4549 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4550 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4551 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4552 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4553 messages in the thread are listed first.
4555 New: Python bindings
4556 --------------------
4558 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4559 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4560 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4561 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4563 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4564 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4565 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4568 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4569 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4570 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4572 Emacs interface improvements
4573 ----------------------------
4575 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4577 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4578 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4579 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4580 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4581 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4582 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4583 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4584 but without any of the disadvantages).
4586 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4587 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4588 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4591 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4592 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4593 instead running something like:
4595 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4597 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4598 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4599 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4602 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4604 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4605 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4606 tweaked by the user.
4608 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4609 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4610 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4613 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4614 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4615 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4618 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4620 This support currently relies on an external program,
4621 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4622 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4623 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4624 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4625 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4628 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4629 notmuch) is available via:
4631 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4633 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4634 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4635 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4637 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4639 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4640 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4641 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4642 making this automatic in a future release.
4644 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4646 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4647 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4648 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4649 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4650 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4651 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4654 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4656 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4657 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4658 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4660 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4662 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4663 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4664 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4666 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4667 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4668 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4669 other representation.
4671 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4672 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4675 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4677 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4678 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4679 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4681 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4682 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4683 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4685 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4687 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4688 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4689 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4690 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4691 to display the search result.
4693 More flexible handling of header visibility
4695 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4696 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4697 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4698 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4699 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4700 with the 'h' keybinding.
4702 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4703 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4704 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4706 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4708 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4710 Customizable formatting of search results
4712 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4713 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4714 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4716 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4718 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4720 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4725 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4727 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4728 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4729 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4730 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4736 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4738 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4739 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4741 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4743 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4744 accept are now all accepted.
4749 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4751 Better display of output from failed tests
4753 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4754 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4756 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4757 ========================
4759 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4760 detailed release notes this time!
4762 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4763 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4765 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4766 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4767 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4768 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4775 Better guessing of From: header
4777 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4778 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4779 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4780 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4781 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4784 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4786 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4787 guaranteed to match all messages.
4789 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4791 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4792 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4793 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4794 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4795 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4798 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4801 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4802 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4803 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4804 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4809 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4811 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4812 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4813 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4814 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4816 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4818 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4820 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4821 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4822 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4824 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4826 Previously, the user might see:
4828 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4832 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4834 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4835 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4836 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4837 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4839 Emacs client features
4840 ---------------------
4842 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4844 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4845 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4846 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4847 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4848 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4850 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4853 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4854 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4855 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4856 search with the '*' binding.
4858 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4860 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4861 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4864 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4866 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4867 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4868 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4870 Build-system features
4871 ---------------------
4873 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4875 Add support to configure for many standard options
4877 We include actual support for:
4879 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4881 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4883 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4884 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4886 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4887 separate "make install-emacs"
4889 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4891 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4892 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4893 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4895 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4898 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4899 ========================
4901 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4903 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4904 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4906 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4907 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4908 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4909 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4910 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4911 tags from messages in a thread.
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