1 Notmuch 0.26 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
10 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
11 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
14 Command Line Interface
15 ----------------------
17 Support for re-indexing existing messages
19 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
20 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
21 change the way specific messages are indexed.
23 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
24 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
25 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
27 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
29 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
31 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
33 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
34 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
35 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
36 the setting of `new.tags`.
41 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
43 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
44 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
45 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
46 on a per-message basis with the --decrypt argument to indexing
47 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
48 config set index.decrypt true".
50 Note that the contents of the index are sufficient to roughly
51 reconstruct the cleartext of the message itself, so please ensure
52 that the notmuch index itself is adequately protected. DO NOT USE
53 this feature without considering the security of your index.
58 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
60 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
61 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
62 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
63 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
65 New functions to count files
67 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
68 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
70 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
72 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
73 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
74 possibility of NULL was not documented.
79 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
81 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
82 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
84 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
86 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
88 Add python bindings for notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*
93 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
94 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
96 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
97 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
98 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
99 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
100 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
101 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
103 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
104 ===========================
109 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
110 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
113 Command Line Interface
114 ----------------------
116 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
117 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
120 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
121 ===========================
123 Command Line Interface
124 ----------------------
126 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
127 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
132 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
135 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
136 ===========================
141 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
144 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
145 =========================
150 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
152 Skip HTML tags when indexing
154 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
156 Command Line Interface
157 ----------------------
159 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
161 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
166 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
168 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
169 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
172 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
177 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
179 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
180 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
182 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
184 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
185 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
188 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
190 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
192 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
194 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
195 ===========================
197 Command Line Interface
198 ----------------------
200 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
205 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
207 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
208 ===========================
213 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
215 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
216 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
219 Command Line Interface
220 ----------------------
222 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
224 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
226 Fix bug in dump header
228 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
229 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
230 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
235 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
237 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
238 =========================
243 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
245 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
248 Command Line Interface
249 ----------------------
251 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
253 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
254 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
255 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
257 New default output format to 3
259 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
260 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
261 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
262 default format changes.
267 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
269 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
270 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
271 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
272 or tree view to resume.
274 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
275 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
276 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
279 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
280 they were when you postponed in the final message.
284 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
285 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
286 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
287 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
288 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
292 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
293 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
294 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
295 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
296 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
297 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
301 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
302 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
304 Stop display of `application/*` parts
306 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
307 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
308 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
309 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
310 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
311 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
312 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
313 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
316 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
318 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
319 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
320 only tagged the current thread.)
322 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
324 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
325 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
326 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
328 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
330 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
331 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
332 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
333 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
334 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
335 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
336 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
338 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
340 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
341 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
342 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
347 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
349 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
352 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
354 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
357 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
358 ===========================
363 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
365 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
366 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
367 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
370 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
371 ===========================
373 Command Line Interface
374 ----------------------
376 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
381 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
383 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
384 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
385 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
387 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
388 ===========================
393 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
394 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
396 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
397 ===========================
399 Command Line Interface
400 ----------------------
402 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
404 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
405 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
406 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
411 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
413 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
414 ===========================
416 Command Line Interface
417 ----------------------
419 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
424 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
426 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
427 ===========================
432 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
434 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
435 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
436 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
438 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
440 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
442 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
443 ===========================
448 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
450 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
455 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
457 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
458 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
459 the original colours.
461 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
462 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
464 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
466 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
467 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
468 bug, and hence the test.
470 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
471 =========================
473 General (Xapian 1.4+)
474 ---------------------
476 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
478 Support for single argument date: queries
480 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
482 Support for blocking opens
484 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
485 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
487 Support for named queries
489 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
490 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
491 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
498 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
499 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
500 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
501 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
503 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
505 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
510 Support for compile time options
512 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
513 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
516 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
518 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
519 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
520 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
521 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
522 scripts to ignore it.
527 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
529 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
530 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
531 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
533 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
534 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
535 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
536 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
537 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
538 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
539 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
541 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
542 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
545 Make internal address completion customizable
547 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
548 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
549 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
550 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
553 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
555 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
556 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
557 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
558 completion for the current buffer.
560 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
561 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
562 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
566 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
567 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
568 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
569 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
570 will be added instead.
572 Face customization is easier
574 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
575 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
576 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
577 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
579 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
584 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
589 Go bindings moved to contrib
591 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
593 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
595 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
596 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
598 The same issue occured with sort modes.
600 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
601 ===========================
608 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
609 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
611 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
613 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
615 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
616 ===========================
621 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
623 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
628 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
633 Use `env` to locate perl.
638 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
640 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
642 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
644 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
646 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
647 =========================
654 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
655 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
657 Limited support for S/MIME messages
659 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
660 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
661 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
666 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
667 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
668 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
670 Command Line Interface
671 ----------------------
673 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
675 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
680 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
685 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
687 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
688 parts are now included in replies.
690 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
691 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
692 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
693 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
695 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
697 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
699 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
701 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
702 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
703 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
704 forwards only the current message.
706 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
708 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
709 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
710 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
711 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
712 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
713 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
714 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
715 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
718 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
719 longer generate empty buffers
721 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
722 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
723 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
724 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
725 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
727 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
729 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
732 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
734 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
737 Address completion improvements
739 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
740 you previously configured one, customize the variable
741 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
742 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
743 interactive address completion.
745 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
747 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
748 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
749 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
754 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
755 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
756 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
762 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
763 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
764 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
765 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
766 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
767 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
769 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
770 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
771 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
772 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
773 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
774 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
776 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
777 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
779 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
780 =========================
785 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
788 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
790 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
791 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
792 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
794 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
795 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
797 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
798 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
799 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
801 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
803 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
804 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
805 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
806 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
807 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
808 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
813 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
814 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
817 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
820 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
822 Command Line Interface
823 ----------------------
825 Database revision tracking
827 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
828 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
829 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
830 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
832 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
834 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
835 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
836 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
837 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
838 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
839 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
840 manual page for further information.
845 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
847 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
848 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
850 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
852 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
853 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
854 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
856 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
858 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
860 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
861 customization as well.
863 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
865 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
867 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
869 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
871 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
872 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
873 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
874 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
876 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
878 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
879 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
880 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
881 this variable to 10000.
886 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
887 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
889 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
891 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
892 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
893 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
894 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
895 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
896 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
897 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
898 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
899 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
902 Database revision tracking
904 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
905 query parser and the new function
906 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
908 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
912 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
913 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
914 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
915 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
920 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
922 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
923 ===========================
928 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
930 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
931 ===========================
936 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
938 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
939 =========================
941 Command-Line Interface
942 ----------------------
944 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
946 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
947 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
948 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
950 Path to gpg is now configurable
952 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
953 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
958 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
960 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
965 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
970 Support messages without Message-IDs.
975 Undeprecate single message mboxes
977 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
978 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
980 New error logging facility
982 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
983 output formerly printed to stderr.
985 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
987 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
989 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
991 Fix for rounding of seconds
996 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
998 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
999 docmumentation has been removed.
1001 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1003 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1004 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1009 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1010 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1011 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1016 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1017 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1018 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1019 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1020 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1021 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1024 git checkout config origin/config
1026 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1028 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1029 =========================
1034 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1035 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1036 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1037 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1038 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1039 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1040 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1042 Command-Line Interface
1043 ----------------------
1045 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1047 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1048 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1049 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1050 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1051 script callers should still check the return value.
1053 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1055 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1056 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1057 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1058 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1059 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1060 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1061 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1063 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1065 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1066 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1067 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1069 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1071 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1072 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1073 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1074 currently unmaintained.
1076 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1078 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1079 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1080 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1081 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1083 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1085 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1086 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1087 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1088 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1089 count of duplicate addresses.
1094 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1096 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1097 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1098 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1101 Improved handling of the unread tag
1103 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1104 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1105 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1106 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1107 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1108 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1109 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1111 Expanded default saved search settings
1113 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1114 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1116 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1118 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1119 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1120 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1122 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1124 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1125 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1126 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1127 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1128 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1129 the variable for details.
1134 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1136 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1137 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1138 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1139 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1141 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1143 Previously, library users were required to call
1144 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1145 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1146 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1147 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1148 too out of date for that API.
1150 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1152 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1153 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1154 atomic section will be aborted.
1156 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1157 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1159 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1161 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1162 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1163 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1164 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1165 messages into the same thread.
1170 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1171 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1172 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1173 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1174 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1175 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1180 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1181 from the config file. Use something like:
1185 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1186 "footer": "</body></html>",
1195 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1200 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1201 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1202 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1204 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1205 ===========================
1210 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1212 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1214 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1216 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1217 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1219 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1221 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1224 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1225 ===========================
1227 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1232 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1234 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1236 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1238 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1240 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1246 Use --quick when starting emacs
1248 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1250 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1252 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1254 Command-Line Interface
1255 ----------------------
1257 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1258 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1263 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1265 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1266 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1268 Fix for phrase indexing
1270 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1271 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1272 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1277 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1279 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1280 unintentionally removed.
1282 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1283 =========================
1288 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1289 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1290 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1291 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1292 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1293 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1294 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1295 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1296 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1302 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1304 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1305 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1306 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1307 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1308 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1309 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1310 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1311 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1313 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1315 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1316 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1317 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1318 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1321 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1323 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1324 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1325 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1326 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1327 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1328 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1329 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1334 Notmuch database upgrade
1336 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1337 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1338 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1339 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1340 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1341 released version of Notmuch before now.
1343 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1345 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1346 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1347 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1348 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1350 Message header parsing changes
1352 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1353 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1354 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1355 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1356 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1357 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1359 Command-Line Interface
1360 ----------------------
1362 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1364 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1366 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1368 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1370 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1372 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1373 user does not want it.
1375 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1377 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1378 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1379 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1380 support formatted output.
1382 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1384 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1385 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1386 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1394 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1395 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1396 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1397 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1398 `~/.emacs` with these.
1400 Changed format for saved searches
1402 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1403 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1404 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1405 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1408 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1409 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1410 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1411 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1413 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1414 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1415 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1417 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1418 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1419 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1420 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1421 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1423 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1425 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1426 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1427 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1429 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1431 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1432 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1433 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1434 message had been unread).
1436 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1437 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1438 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1439 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1441 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1442 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1443 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1445 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1446 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1447 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1448 to tags already present.
1452 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1453 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1454 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1455 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1456 these differ from each other.
1457 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1459 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1461 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1462 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1463 for these Emacs versions.
1465 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1467 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1468 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1470 Bug fixes for sender identities
1472 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1473 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1474 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1476 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1478 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1479 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1480 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1481 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1483 Reply pushes mark before signature
1485 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1486 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1487 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1489 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1491 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1492 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1498 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1499 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1501 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1502 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1503 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1504 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1506 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1507 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1508 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1509 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1510 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1512 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1514 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1515 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1517 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1518 =========================
1520 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1521 ---------------------------------------
1523 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1524 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1525 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1526 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1527 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1528 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1529 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1533 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1534 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1536 Command-Line Interface
1537 ----------------------
1539 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1541 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1542 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1543 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1544 print for each message.
1546 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1547 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1548 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1549 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1551 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1553 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1554 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1555 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1557 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1559 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1560 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1561 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1562 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1564 `notmuch compact` command
1566 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1567 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1568 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1569 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1570 move the compacted database into place.
1575 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1577 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1578 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1579 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1580 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1581 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1582 and multiple threads.
1584 Using `notmuch-tree`
1586 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1588 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1589 search, show and tree mode itself)
1591 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1594 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1595 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1597 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1599 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1600 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1601 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1602 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1603 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1604 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1605 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1607 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1609 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1610 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1611 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1612 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1613 thread when the search was performed.
1615 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1617 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1618 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1619 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1621 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1623 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1624 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1627 Built-in help improvements
1629 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1630 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1631 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1633 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1635 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1636 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1637 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1639 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1641 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1642 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1644 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1646 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1647 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1648 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1649 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1651 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1653 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1654 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1655 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1656 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1658 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1660 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1661 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1662 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1664 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1666 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1667 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1668 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1670 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1672 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1673 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1674 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1675 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1676 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1678 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1680 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1681 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1682 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1683 the body part of the message.
1688 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1689 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1690 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1692 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1693 =========================
1695 Command-Line Interface
1696 ----------------------
1698 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1700 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1701 folder and notmuch index.
1703 `notmuch count --batch` option
1705 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1706 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1708 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1710 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1711 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1712 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1715 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1717 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1718 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1719 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1720 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1721 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1724 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1726 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1727 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1729 Top level option to specify configuration file
1731 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1732 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1734 Bash command-line completion
1736 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1737 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1738 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1739 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1740 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1741 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1742 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1743 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1744 bash-completion package.
1746 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1751 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1753 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1754 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1755 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1756 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1757 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1758 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1759 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1760 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1762 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1764 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1765 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1766 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1768 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1770 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1771 previous thread in the search results.
1773 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1775 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1776 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1778 Faster search and show
1780 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1781 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1782 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1783 threads should show faster.
1787 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1788 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1789 in question was now removed from this release.
1794 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1795 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1800 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1802 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1803 ===========================
1808 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1810 Internal test framework changes
1811 -------------------------------
1813 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1814 being unimplemented.
1816 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1817 ===========================
1819 Internal test framework changes
1820 -------------------------------
1822 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1823 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1825 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1826 =========================
1831 Date range search support
1833 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1834 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1835 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1836 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1837 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1840 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1842 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1843 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1844 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1845 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1846 but may be removed in a future release.
1848 Command-Line Interface
1849 ----------------------
1851 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1853 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1854 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1856 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1858 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1859 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1860 officially deprecated.
1862 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1864 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1865 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1866 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1868 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1870 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1871 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1874 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1875 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1876 dump/restore format.
1878 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1880 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1881 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1882 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1884 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1886 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1887 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1888 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1890 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1892 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1893 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1894 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1895 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1900 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1902 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1903 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1904 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1905 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1907 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1909 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1910 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1911 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1912 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1913 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1914 the behavior of this, see
1915 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1916 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1918 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1919 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1920 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1922 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1924 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1925 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1928 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1930 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1931 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1932 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1933 simply displayed in place of the message.
1935 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1937 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1938 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1940 Improved text/calendar content handling
1942 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1943 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1944 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1945 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1947 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1949 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1950 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1951 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1952 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1954 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1956 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1957 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1958 for HTML email containing images.
1960 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1962 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1964 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1966 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1969 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1971 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1972 the point where it was.
1974 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1976 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1977 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1978 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1979 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1980 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1982 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1984 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1985 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1986 thread instead of the message id.
1988 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1989 -----------------------------
1991 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1992 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1993 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1994 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1995 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1996 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1997 further details and installation.
2002 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2004 Internal test framework changes
2005 -------------------------------
2007 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2009 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2010 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2011 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2012 can result in buggy behavior.
2014 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2015 =========================
2020 Maildir tag synchronization
2022 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2023 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2024 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2025 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2026 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2027 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2030 Command-Line Interface
2031 ----------------------
2033 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2034 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2035 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2036 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2037 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2043 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2045 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2047 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2048 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2049 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2051 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2053 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2054 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2055 span multiple lines.
2057 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2059 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2060 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2061 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2062 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2063 inside the result or message.
2065 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2067 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2068 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2070 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2071 user-specified formatting
2073 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2074 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2075 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2076 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2077 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2079 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2080 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2082 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2083 ===========================
2088 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2089 compilation error for this contrib package.
2091 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2092 ===========================
2097 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2099 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2100 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2101 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2102 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2104 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2105 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2108 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2109 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2110 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2111 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2114 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2116 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2119 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2120 =========================
2122 Command-Line Interface
2123 ----------------------
2127 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2128 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2129 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2130 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2132 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2133 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2134 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2135 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2139 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2140 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2142 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2143 tag in your query, for example:
2145 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2147 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2148 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2150 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2151 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2153 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2155 Raw show format changes
2157 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2158 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2159 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2160 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2161 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2162 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2163 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2164 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2166 Listing configuration items
2168 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2174 Changes to tagging interface
2176 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2177 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2178 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2179 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2180 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2181 for more information.
2183 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2184 may need to update in custom configurations.
2186 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2188 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2189 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2190 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2191 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2194 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2195 -----------------------------
2197 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2198 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2199 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2200 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2201 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2202 contrib/ from now on.
2207 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2208 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2210 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2211 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2213 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2214 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2215 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2217 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2218 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2220 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2221 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2222 returning the new database object or directory object.
2229 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2230 compatible with go 1.
2232 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2233 =========================
2235 Command-Line Interface
2236 ----------------------
2240 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2241 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2242 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2243 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2245 Mail store folder/file ignore
2247 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2248 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2249 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2251 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2252 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2254 Unified help and manual pages
2256 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2257 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2260 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2262 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2263 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2271 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2272 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2273 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2274 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2276 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2278 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2279 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2281 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2284 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2285 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2286 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2288 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2290 should be changed to:
2292 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2294 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2296 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2297 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2299 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2301 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2302 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2303 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2304 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2305 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2306 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2310 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2311 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2312 of Mailing List Archives.
2314 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2316 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2317 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2320 Show view archiving key binding changes
2322 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2323 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2324 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2325 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2326 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2329 Support text/calendar MIME type
2331 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2334 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2336 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2337 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2338 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2339 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2341 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2343 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2344 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2345 messages blue by default in the search view.
2349 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2350 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2357 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2360 Python bindings changes
2361 -----------------------
2363 Python 3.2 compatibility
2365 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2367 Added missing unicode conversions
2369 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2370 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2371 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2376 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2378 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2379 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2380 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2381 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2382 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2384 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2385 ===========================
2390 Fix error handling in python bindings
2392 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2393 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2394 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2395 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2397 Quote MML tags in replies
2399 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2400 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2401 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2402 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2403 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2404 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2405 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2406 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2408 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2409 =========================
2411 Command-Line Interface
2412 ----------------------
2416 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2417 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2418 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2419 importing new messages into the database.
2421 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2423 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2424 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2425 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2430 Automatic tag query optimization
2432 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2433 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2434 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2436 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2438 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2439 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2440 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2445 Reduction of memory leaks
2447 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2448 and fixed in this release.
2455 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2456 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2457 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2460 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2462 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2463 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2464 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2467 Improvements in saved search management
2469 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2470 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2471 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2473 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2475 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2476 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2477 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2479 New face for crypto parts headers
2481 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2482 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2483 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2486 Use space as default thousands separator
2488 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2489 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2490 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2492 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2493 buttonized id: links
2495 New function notmuch-show-advance
2497 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2498 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2499 be bound to SPC with:
2501 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2503 Various performance improvements
2508 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2509 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2512 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2513 ===========================
2518 Fix crash in python bindings
2520 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2521 for some, but not all users.
2523 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2524 ===========================
2529 Fix `--help` argument
2531 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2532 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2533 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2535 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2536 =========================
2538 New build and testing features
2539 ------------------------------
2541 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2542 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2543 prerequisites is improved.
2545 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2547 New command-line features
2548 -------------------------
2550 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2552 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2553 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2556 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2558 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2559 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2560 favour of using stdout.
2562 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2564 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2565 limit the number of results shown.
2567 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2569 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2570 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2573 New emacs UI features
2574 ---------------------
2576 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2578 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2579 starting with "tag:".
2581 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2583 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2584 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2586 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2588 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2590 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2592 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2593 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2598 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2600 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2602 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2603 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2604 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2605 requires a database rebuild:
2607 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2608 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2610 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2612 New collection of add-on tools
2613 ------------------------------
2615 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2616 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2617 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2620 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2622 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2623 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2624 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2626 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2627 ========================
2629 New, general features
2630 ---------------------
2632 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2634 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2635 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2636 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2637 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2638 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2645 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2646 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2648 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2652 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2653 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2654 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2657 Python bindings changes
2658 -----------------------
2660 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2662 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2663 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2664 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2665 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2666 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2667 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2669 Ruby bindings changes
2670 ---------------------
2672 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2673 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2674 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2675 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2680 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2682 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2683 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2685 Reply formatting cleanup
2686 ------------------------
2688 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2689 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2691 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2692 ========================
2694 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2696 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2697 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2698 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2699 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2702 Improved Build system portability
2704 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2705 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2706 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2708 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2710 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2712 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2714 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2715 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2716 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2718 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2719 ========================
2721 Vim interface improvements
2722 --------------------------
2724 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2726 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2727 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2728 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2729 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2730 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2732 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2734 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2735 * fix compose temp file name
2737 Python Bindings changes
2738 -----------------------
2740 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2742 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2743 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2745 Build-System improvements
2746 -------------------------
2748 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2750 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2753 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2754 ==========================
2759 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2761 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2762 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2764 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2765 =======================
2767 New, general features
2768 ---------------------
2770 Folder-based searching
2772 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2773 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2774 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2778 For example, one might use things such as:
2784 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2785 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2787 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2788 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2789 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2790 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2792 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2793 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2794 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2797 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2798 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2800 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2802 Support for PGP/MIME
2804 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2805 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2806 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2808 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2810 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2811 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2813 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2814 notmuch will receive these tags.
2816 New command-line features
2817 -------------------------
2819 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2821 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2822 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2824 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2826 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2827 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2828 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2830 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2832 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2833 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2834 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2835 which parts a signature part applies).
2837 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2839 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2840 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2841 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2842 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2843 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2846 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2848 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2849 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2850 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2851 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2852 by translating it internally to the new call.
2854 Performance improvements
2855 ------------------------
2857 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2859 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2860 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2861 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2863 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2864 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2866 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2868 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2869 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2870 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2872 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2873 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2874 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2875 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2877 Faster initial indexing
2879 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2880 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2881 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2883 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2885 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2886 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2887 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2888 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2890 New emacs-interface features
2891 ----------------------------
2893 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2895 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2896 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2897 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2898 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2899 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2900 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2902 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2904 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2905 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2906 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2907 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2909 User-selectable From address
2911 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2912 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2913 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2914 will prompt for the from address to use.
2916 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2917 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2918 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2920 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2921 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2922 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2925 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2927 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2928 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2930 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2932 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2934 ----- Original Message -----
2936 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2937 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2938 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2939 citations work much like conventional citations.
2941 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2943 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2944 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2945 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2946 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2947 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2949 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2950 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2952 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2954 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2955 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2956 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2958 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2960 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2961 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2962 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2963 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2964 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2966 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2968 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2971 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2973 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2975 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2977 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2980 Vim interface improvements
2981 --------------------------
2983 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2985 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2986 * Implementing archive in show view
2987 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2988 * Add delete commands
2991 Bindings improvements
2992 ---------------------
2994 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2996 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2997 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2999 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3001 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3005 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3006 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3007 `list(Messages)` works now
3008 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3010 These allow, for example:
3012 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3014 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3016 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3022 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3024 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3027 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3029 New build-system features
3030 -------------------------
3032 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3034 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3035 the configure script from some other directory:
3042 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3044 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3045 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3046 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3047 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3048 manual invocation of configure.
3050 New test-suite feature
3051 ----------------------
3053 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3055 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3056 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3057 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3058 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3059 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3062 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3064 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3065 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3066 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3067 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3068 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3069 are updated to take advantage of this.
3071 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3073 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3074 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3075 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3076 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3082 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3084 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3085 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3086 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3088 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3090 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3092 to:user@elsewhere.com
3094 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3096 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3098 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3100 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3101 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3102 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3105 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3106 from the Received headers in some cases
3108 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3109 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3111 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3113 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3115 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3117 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3118 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3119 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3121 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3122 -------------------------
3124 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3126 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3127 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3128 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3130 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3132 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3133 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3134 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3137 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3139 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3140 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3141 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3142 fixed to avoid this bug.
3144 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3146 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3147 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3149 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3150 ========================
3152 New, general features
3153 ---------------------
3155 Maildir-flag synchronization
3157 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3158 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3167 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3169 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3170 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3171 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3172 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3174 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3175 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3176 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3177 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3180 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3182 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3183 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3184 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3186 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3187 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3189 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3190 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3192 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3193 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3194 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3196 New library features
3197 --------------------
3199 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3201 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3202 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3203 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3204 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3206 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3207 message with the new function:
3209 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3211 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3212 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3213 over all available filenames for a given message.
3215 New command-line features
3216 -------------------------
3218 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3220 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3221 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3222 access to the mail store itself.
3224 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3225 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3226 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3227 name of a script containing:
3229 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3231 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3232 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3238 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3240 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3242 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3244 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3245 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3246 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3247 now produces nothing).
3249 Emacs interface improvements
3250 ----------------------------
3252 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3254 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3256 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3258 Display current thread subject in a header line
3260 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3262 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3264 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3265 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3266 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3267 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3268 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3269 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3270 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3272 Vim interface improvements
3273 --------------------------
3275 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3277 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3278 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3284 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3286 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3287 ========================
3289 New command-line features
3290 -------------------------
3292 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3294 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3295 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3296 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3298 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3299 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3300 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3301 scripts. For example:
3303 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3304 <operations-on> "$file"
3307 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3309 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3310 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3311 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3312 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3313 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3314 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3316 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3318 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3319 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3320 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3321 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3323 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3325 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3326 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3327 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3328 default rather than Bcc.
3330 New library features
3331 --------------------
3333 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3335 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3336 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3341 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3343 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3344 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3345 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3346 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3347 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3348 notmuch customize interface.
3350 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3352 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3353 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3354 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3355 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3357 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3359 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3360 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3361 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3362 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3364 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3366 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3367 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3368 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3369 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3370 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3371 notmuch customize interface.
3373 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3375 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3376 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3377 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3378 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3379 notmuch customize interface.
3381 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3383 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3384 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3385 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3386 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3389 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3391 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3392 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3393 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3396 New build-system features
3397 -------------------------
3399 Various portability fixes have been applied
3401 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3402 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3403 more portable than ever before.
3405 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3407 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3408 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3409 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3411 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3412 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3413 automatically run ldconfig.
3415 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3416 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3417 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3419 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3420 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3421 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3422 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3424 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3426 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3427 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3428 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3429 used in the resulting Makefile.
3431 New test-suite features
3432 -----------------------
3434 New modularization of test suite
3436 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3437 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3438 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3439 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3440 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3441 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3442 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3443 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3445 New testing of emacs interface
3447 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3448 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3449 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3450 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3451 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3452 database via the FCC setting.
3457 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3459 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3460 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3461 persistent error of the form:
3463 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3465 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3466 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3468 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3470 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3471 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3472 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3474 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3476 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3477 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3478 parsing the notmuch results).
3480 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3482 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3485 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3486 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3487 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3492 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3494 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3495 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3496 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3497 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3498 the emacs interface.
3500 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3502 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3503 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3504 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3506 Python-binding fixes
3507 --------------------
3509 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3511 Debian-specific fixes
3512 ---------------------
3514 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3516 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3517 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3518 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3521 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3522 ==========================
3527 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3529 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3530 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3531 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3532 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3534 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3536 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3537 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3538 want notmuch to crash.
3543 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3545 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3546 directory does not exist
3551 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3553 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3554 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3556 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3557 ========================
3559 New command-line features
3560 -------------------------
3562 User-configurable tags for new messages
3564 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3565 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3566 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3567 to specify this value.
3569 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3571 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3572 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3573 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3575 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3577 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3578 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3580 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3582 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3583 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3584 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3585 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3586 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3589 Indication of author names that match a search
3591 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3592 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3593 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3594 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3595 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3596 messages in the thread are listed first.
3598 New: Python bindings
3599 --------------------
3601 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3602 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3603 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3604 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3606 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3607 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3608 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3611 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3612 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3613 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3615 Emacs interface improvements
3616 ----------------------------
3618 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3620 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3621 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3622 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3623 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3624 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3625 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3626 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3627 but without any of the disadvantages).
3629 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3630 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3631 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3634 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3635 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3636 instead running something like:
3638 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3640 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3641 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3642 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3645 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3647 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3648 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3649 tweaked by the user.
3651 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3652 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3653 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3656 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3657 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3658 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3661 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3663 This support currently relies on an external program,
3664 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3665 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3666 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3667 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3668 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3671 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3672 notmuch) is available via:
3674 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3676 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3677 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3678 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3680 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3682 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3683 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3684 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3685 making this automatic in a future release.
3687 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3689 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3690 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3691 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3692 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3693 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3694 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3697 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3699 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3700 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3701 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3703 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3705 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3706 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3707 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3709 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3710 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3711 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3712 other representation.
3714 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3715 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3718 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3720 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3721 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3722 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3724 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3725 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3726 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3728 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3730 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3731 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3732 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3733 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3734 to display the search result.
3736 More flexible handling of header visibility
3738 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3739 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3740 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3741 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3742 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3743 with the 'h' keybinding.
3745 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3746 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3747 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3749 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3751 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3753 Customizable formatting of search results
3755 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3756 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3757 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3759 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3761 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3763 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3768 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3770 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3771 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3772 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3773 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3779 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3781 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3782 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3784 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3786 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3787 accept are now all accepted.
3792 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3794 Better display of output from failed tests
3796 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3797 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3799 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3800 ========================
3802 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3803 detailed release notes this time!
3805 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3806 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3808 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3809 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3810 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3811 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3818 Better guessing of From: header
3820 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3821 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3822 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3823 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3824 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3827 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3829 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3830 guaranteed to match all messages.
3832 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3834 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3835 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3836 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3837 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3838 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3841 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3844 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3845 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3846 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3847 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3852 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3854 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3855 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3856 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3857 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3859 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3861 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3863 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3864 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3865 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3867 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3869 Previously, the user might see:
3871 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3875 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3877 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3878 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3879 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3880 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3882 Emacs client features
3883 ---------------------
3885 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3887 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3888 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3889 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3890 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3891 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3893 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3896 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3897 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3898 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3899 search with the '*' binding.
3901 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3903 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3904 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3907 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3909 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3910 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3911 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3913 Build-system features
3914 ---------------------
3916 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3918 Add support to configure for many standard options
3920 We include actual support for:
3922 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3924 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3926 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3927 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3929 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3930 separate "make install-emacs"
3932 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3934 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3935 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3936 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3938 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3941 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3942 ========================
3944 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3946 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3947 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3949 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3950 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3951 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3952 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3953 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3954 tags from messages in a thread.
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