1 Notmuch 0.33 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
9 Notmuch 0.32.1 (UNRELEASED)
10 ===========================
12 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
13 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
14 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
16 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
17 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
18 database in a pre-new hook.
20 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
21 =========================
26 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
27 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
28 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
29 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
30 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
31 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
32 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
33 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
34 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
35 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
36 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
41 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
42 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
44 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
45 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
46 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
47 - `notmuch_config_get`
49 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
50 now exposed (and generalized).
52 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
53 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
54 session has been fixed.
56 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
57 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
62 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
63 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
65 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
66 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
71 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
72 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
73 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
74 when prompting for senders.
76 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
77 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
80 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
82 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
84 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
85 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
86 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
87 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
88 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
89 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
90 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
92 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
93 ===========================
98 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
103 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
105 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
106 ===========================
111 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
116 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
121 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
123 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
124 ===========================
129 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
130 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
132 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
133 ===========================
138 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
143 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
144 with a C++ header for some compilers.
146 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
148 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
149 =========================
154 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
155 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
156 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
158 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
160 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
162 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
164 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
167 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
169 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
170 search, show and tree mode)
172 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
175 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
178 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
179 always be newest first.
184 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
185 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
186 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
192 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
193 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
194 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
195 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
197 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
198 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
199 non-status providing versions.
201 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
202 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
204 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
205 promised in the documentation.
210 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
211 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
212 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
217 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
218 development version).
223 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
228 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
230 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
231 =========================
236 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
237 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
238 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
241 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
247 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
248 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
249 notmuch-properties(7)).
254 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
255 has protected headers (see
256 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
257 notmuch-properties(7)).
262 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
264 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
265 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
271 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
274 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
275 ===========================
280 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
282 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
287 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
289 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
290 ===========================
295 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
296 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
298 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
299 ===========================
304 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
306 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
307 =========================
312 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
313 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
316 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
317 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
318 the set of headers to be indexed.
320 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
323 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
324 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
325 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
328 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
329 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
330 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
332 Command Line Interface
333 ----------------------
335 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
338 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
340 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
341 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
342 more details about what is included there. This status includes
343 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
348 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
349 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
351 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
353 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
355 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
357 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
359 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
362 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
364 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
365 and may be removed in a future release.
367 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
373 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
375 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
376 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
381 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
382 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
383 cryptography support.
388 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
389 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
390 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
392 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
393 ===========================
395 Command line interface
396 ----------------------
398 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
399 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
401 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
402 ===========================
407 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
408 by message properties.
413 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
415 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
416 ===========================
421 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
426 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
427 now needed to build this documentation.
429 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
430 ===========================
435 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
436 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
438 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
439 =========================
446 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
447 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
448 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
449 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
450 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
453 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
455 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
456 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
457 correct encoding for such messages.
459 Command Line Interface
460 ----------------------
462 Support relative database paths
464 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
465 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
466 to $HOME of the invoking user.
471 Improve stderr handling
473 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
474 needed on e.g. macOS.
476 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
478 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
483 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
484 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
490 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
491 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
497 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
498 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
501 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
502 =========================
507 Add support for thread:{} queries
509 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
510 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
511 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
513 Command Line Interface
514 ----------------------
516 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
518 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
520 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
522 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
523 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
524 does not have to be available during message receipt.
529 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
535 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
536 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
538 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
539 ===========================
544 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
546 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
547 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
548 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
550 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
552 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
553 related abort in `notmuch show`.
555 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
556 ===========================
561 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
562 better late than never.
565 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
566 =========================
568 Command Line Interface
569 ----------------------
571 Support for re-indexing existing messages
573 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
574 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
575 change the way specific messages are indexed.
577 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
578 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
579 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
581 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
583 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
585 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
587 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
588 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
589 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
590 the setting of `new.tags`.
592 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
594 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
596 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
598 This inserts into the top level folder.
600 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
602 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
604 New option --output=address for notmuch address
606 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
608 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
610 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
611 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
612 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
614 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
619 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
621 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
622 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
623 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
624 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
625 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
626 config set index.decrypt true".
628 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
629 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
630 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
631 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
632 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
633 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
634 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
635 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
637 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
638 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
639 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
640 this feature without considering the security of your index.
645 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
647 Use make-process when available
649 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
650 notmuch command without using temporary files.
655 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
657 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
658 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
659 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
660 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
662 New functions to count files
664 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
665 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
667 New function to remove properties
669 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
670 drop all properties with a common pattern:
671 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
673 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
675 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
676 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
677 possibility of NULL was not documented.
679 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
681 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
682 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
683 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
684 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
685 operator may decide to change from message to message.
692 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
693 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
694 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
700 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
702 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
703 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
705 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
707 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
709 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
711 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
716 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
717 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
719 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
720 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
721 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
722 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
723 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
724 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
729 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
731 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
732 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
733 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
734 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
736 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
737 ===========================
742 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
743 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
746 Command Line Interface
747 ----------------------
749 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
750 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
753 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
754 ===========================
756 Command Line Interface
757 ----------------------
759 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
760 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
765 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
768 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
769 ===========================
774 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
777 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
778 =========================
783 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
785 Skip HTML tags when indexing
787 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
789 Command Line Interface
790 ----------------------
792 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
794 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
799 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
801 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
802 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
805 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
810 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
812 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
813 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
815 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
817 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
818 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
821 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
823 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
825 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
827 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
828 ===========================
830 Command Line Interface
831 ----------------------
833 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
838 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
840 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
841 ===========================
846 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
848 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
849 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
852 Command Line Interface
853 ----------------------
855 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
857 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
859 Fix bug in dump header
861 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
862 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
863 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
868 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
870 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
871 =========================
876 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
878 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
881 Command Line Interface
882 ----------------------
884 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
886 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
887 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
888 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
890 New default output format to 3
892 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
893 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
894 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
895 default format changes.
900 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
902 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
903 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
904 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
905 or tree view to resume.
907 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
908 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
909 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
912 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
913 they were when you postponed in the final message.
917 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
918 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
919 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
920 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
921 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
925 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
926 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
927 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
928 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
929 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
930 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
934 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
935 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
937 Stop display of `application/*` parts
939 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
940 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
941 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
942 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
943 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
944 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
945 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
946 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
949 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
951 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
952 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
953 only tagged the current thread.)
955 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
957 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
958 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
959 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
961 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
963 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
964 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
965 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
966 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
967 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
968 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
969 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
971 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
973 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
974 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
975 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
980 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
982 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
985 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
987 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
990 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
991 ===========================
996 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
998 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
999 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1000 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1003 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1004 ===========================
1006 Command Line Interface
1007 ----------------------
1009 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1014 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1016 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1017 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1018 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1020 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1021 ===========================
1026 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1027 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1029 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1030 ===========================
1032 Command Line Interface
1033 ----------------------
1035 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1037 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1038 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1039 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1044 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1046 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1047 ===========================
1049 Command Line Interface
1050 ----------------------
1052 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1057 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1059 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1060 ===========================
1065 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1067 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1068 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1069 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1071 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1073 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1075 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1076 ===========================
1081 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1083 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1088 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1090 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1091 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1092 the original colours.
1094 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1095 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1097 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1099 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1100 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1101 bug, and hence the test.
1103 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1104 =========================
1106 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1107 ---------------------
1109 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1111 Support for single argument date: queries
1113 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1115 Support for blocking opens
1117 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1118 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1120 Support for named queries
1122 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1123 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1124 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1129 Message property API
1131 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1132 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1133 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1134 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1136 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1138 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1143 Support for compile time options
1145 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1146 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1149 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1151 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1152 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1153 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1154 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1155 scripts to ignore it.
1160 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1162 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1163 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1164 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1166 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1167 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1168 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1169 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1170 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1171 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1172 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1174 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1175 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1178 Make internal address completion customizable
1180 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1181 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1182 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1183 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1186 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1188 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1189 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1190 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1191 completion for the current buffer.
1193 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1194 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1195 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1199 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1200 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1201 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1202 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1203 will be added instead.
1205 Face customization is easier
1207 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1208 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1209 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1210 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1212 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1217 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1222 Go bindings moved to contrib
1224 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1226 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1228 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1229 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1231 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1233 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1234 ===========================
1241 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1242 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1244 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1246 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1248 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1249 ===========================
1254 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1256 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1261 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1266 Use `env` to locate perl.
1271 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1273 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1275 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1277 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1279 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1280 =========================
1287 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1288 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1290 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1292 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1293 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1294 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1299 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1300 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1301 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1303 Command Line Interface
1304 ----------------------
1306 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1308 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1313 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1318 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1320 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1321 parts are now included in replies.
1323 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1324 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1325 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1326 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1328 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1330 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1332 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1334 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1335 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1336 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1337 forwards only the current message.
1339 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1341 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1342 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1343 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1344 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1345 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1346 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1347 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1348 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1351 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1352 longer generate empty buffers
1354 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1355 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1356 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1357 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1358 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1360 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1362 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1365 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1367 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1370 Address completion improvements
1372 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1373 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1374 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1375 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1376 interactive address completion.
1378 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1380 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1381 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1382 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1387 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1388 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1389 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1395 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1396 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1397 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1398 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1399 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1400 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1402 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1403 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1404 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1405 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1406 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1407 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1409 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1410 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1412 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1413 =========================
1418 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1421 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1423 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1424 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1425 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1427 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1428 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1430 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1431 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1432 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1434 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1436 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1437 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1438 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1439 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1440 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1441 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1446 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1447 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1450 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1451 option to configure.
1453 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1455 Command Line Interface
1456 ----------------------
1458 Database revision tracking
1460 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1461 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1462 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1463 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1465 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1467 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1468 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1469 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1470 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1471 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1472 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1473 manual page for further information.
1478 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1480 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1481 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1483 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1485 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1486 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1487 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1489 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1491 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1493 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1494 customization as well.
1496 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1498 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1500 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1502 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1504 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1505 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1506 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1507 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1509 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1511 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1512 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1513 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1514 this variable to 10000.
1519 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1520 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1522 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1524 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1525 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1526 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1527 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1528 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1529 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1530 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1531 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1532 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1535 Database revision tracking
1537 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1538 query parser and the new function
1539 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1541 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1543 Deprecated functions
1545 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1546 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1547 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1548 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1553 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1555 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1556 ===========================
1561 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1563 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1564 ===========================
1569 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1571 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1572 =========================
1574 Command-Line Interface
1575 ----------------------
1577 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1579 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1580 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1581 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1583 Path to gpg is now configurable
1585 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1586 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1591 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1593 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1598 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1603 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1608 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1610 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1611 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1613 New error logging facility
1615 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1616 output formerly printed to stderr.
1618 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1620 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1622 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1624 Fix for rounding of seconds
1629 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1631 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1632 documentation has been removed.
1634 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1636 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1637 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1642 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1643 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1644 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1649 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1650 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1651 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1652 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1653 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1654 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1657 git checkout config origin/config
1659 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1661 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1662 =========================
1667 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1668 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1669 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1670 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1671 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1672 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1673 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1675 Command-Line Interface
1676 ----------------------
1678 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1680 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1681 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1682 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1683 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1684 script callers should still check the return value.
1686 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1688 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1689 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1690 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1691 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1692 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1693 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1694 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1696 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1698 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1699 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1700 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1702 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1704 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1705 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1706 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1707 currently unmaintained.
1709 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1711 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1712 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1713 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1714 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1716 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1718 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1719 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1720 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1721 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1722 count of duplicate addresses.
1727 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1729 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1730 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1731 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1734 Improved handling of the unread tag
1736 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1737 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1738 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1739 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1740 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1741 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1742 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1744 Expanded default saved search settings
1746 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1747 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1749 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1751 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1752 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1753 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1755 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1757 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1758 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1759 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1760 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1761 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1762 the variable for details.
1767 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1769 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1770 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1771 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1772 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1774 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1776 Previously, library users were required to call
1777 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1778 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1779 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1780 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1781 too out of date for that API.
1783 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1785 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1786 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1787 atomic section will be aborted.
1789 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1790 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1792 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1794 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1795 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1796 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1797 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1798 messages into the same thread.
1803 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1804 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1805 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1806 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1807 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1808 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1813 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1814 from the config file. Use something like:
1818 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1819 "footer": "</body></html>",
1828 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1833 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1834 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1835 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1837 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1838 ===========================
1843 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1845 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1847 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1849 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1850 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1852 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1854 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1857 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1858 ===========================
1860 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1865 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1867 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1869 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1871 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1873 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1879 Use --quick when starting emacs
1881 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1883 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1885 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1887 Command-Line Interface
1888 ----------------------
1890 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1891 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1896 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1898 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1899 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1901 Fix for phrase indexing
1903 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1904 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1905 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1910 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1912 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1913 unintentionally removed.
1915 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1916 =========================
1921 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1922 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1923 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1924 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1925 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1926 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1927 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1928 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1929 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1935 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1937 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1938 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1939 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1940 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1941 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1942 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1943 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1944 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1946 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1948 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1949 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1950 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1951 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1954 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1956 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1957 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1958 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1959 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1960 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1961 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1962 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1967 Notmuch database upgrade
1969 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1970 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1971 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1972 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1973 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1974 released version of Notmuch before now.
1976 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1978 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1979 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1980 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1981 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1983 Message header parsing changes
1985 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1986 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1987 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1988 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1989 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1990 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1992 Command-Line Interface
1993 ----------------------
1995 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1997 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1999 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2001 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2003 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2005 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2006 user does not want it.
2008 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2010 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2011 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2012 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2013 support formatted output.
2015 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2017 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2018 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2019 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2027 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2028 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2029 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2030 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2031 `~/.emacs` with these.
2033 Changed format for saved searches
2035 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2036 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2037 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2038 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2041 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2042 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2043 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2044 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2046 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2047 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2048 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2050 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2051 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2052 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2053 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2054 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2056 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2058 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2059 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2060 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2062 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2064 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2065 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2066 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2067 message had been unread).
2069 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2070 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2071 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2072 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2074 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2075 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2076 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2078 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2079 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2080 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2081 to tags already present.
2085 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2086 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2087 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2088 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2089 these differ from each other.
2090 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2092 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2094 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2095 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2096 for these Emacs versions.
2098 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2100 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2101 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2103 Bug fixes for sender identities
2105 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2106 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2107 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2109 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2111 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2112 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2113 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2114 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2116 Reply pushes mark before signature
2118 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2119 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2120 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2122 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2124 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2125 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2131 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2132 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2134 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2135 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2136 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2137 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2139 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2140 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2141 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2142 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2143 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2145 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2147 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2148 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2150 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2151 =========================
2153 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2154 ---------------------------------------
2156 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2157 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2158 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2159 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2160 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2161 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2162 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2166 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2167 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2169 Command-Line Interface
2170 ----------------------
2172 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2174 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2175 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2176 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2177 print for each message.
2179 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2180 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2181 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2182 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2184 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2186 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2187 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2188 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2190 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2192 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2193 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2194 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2195 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2197 `notmuch compact` command
2199 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2200 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2201 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2202 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2203 move the compacted database into place.
2208 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2210 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2211 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2212 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2213 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2214 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2215 and multiple threads.
2217 Using `notmuch-tree`
2219 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2221 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2222 search, show and tree mode itself)
2224 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2227 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2228 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2230 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2232 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2233 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2234 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2235 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2236 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2237 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2238 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2240 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2242 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2243 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2244 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2245 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2246 thread when the search was performed.
2248 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2250 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2251 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2252 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2254 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2256 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2257 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2260 Built-in help improvements
2262 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2263 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2264 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2266 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2268 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2269 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2270 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2272 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2274 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2275 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2277 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2279 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2280 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2281 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2282 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2284 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2286 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2287 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2288 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2289 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2291 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2293 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2294 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2295 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2297 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2299 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2300 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2301 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2303 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2305 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2306 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2307 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2308 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2309 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2311 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2313 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2314 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2315 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2316 the body part of the message.
2321 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2322 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2323 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2325 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2326 =========================
2328 Command-Line Interface
2329 ----------------------
2331 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2333 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2334 folder and notmuch index.
2336 `notmuch count --batch` option
2338 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2339 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2341 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2343 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2344 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2345 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2348 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2350 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2351 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2352 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2353 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2354 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2357 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2359 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2360 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2362 Top level option to specify configuration file
2364 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2365 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2367 Bash command-line completion
2369 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2370 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2371 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2372 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2373 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2374 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2375 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2376 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2377 bash-completion package.
2379 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2384 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2386 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2387 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2388 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2389 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2390 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2391 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2392 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2393 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2395 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2397 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2398 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2399 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2401 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2403 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2404 previous thread in the search results.
2406 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2408 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2409 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2411 Faster search and show
2413 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2414 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2415 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2416 threads should show faster.
2420 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2421 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2422 in question was now removed from this release.
2427 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2428 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2433 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2435 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2436 ===========================
2441 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2443 Internal test framework changes
2444 -------------------------------
2446 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2447 being unimplemented.
2449 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2450 ===========================
2452 Internal test framework changes
2453 -------------------------------
2455 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2456 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2458 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2459 =========================
2464 Date range search support
2466 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2467 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2468 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2469 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2470 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2473 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2475 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2476 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2477 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2478 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2479 but may be removed in a future release.
2481 Command-Line Interface
2482 ----------------------
2484 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2486 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2487 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2489 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2491 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2492 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2493 officially deprecated.
2495 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2497 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2498 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2499 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2501 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2503 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2504 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2507 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2508 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2509 dump/restore format.
2511 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2513 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2514 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2515 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2517 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2519 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2520 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2521 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2523 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2525 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2526 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2527 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2528 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2533 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2535 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2536 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2537 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2538 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2540 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2542 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2543 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2544 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2545 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2546 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2547 the behavior of this, see
2548 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2549 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2551 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2552 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2553 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2555 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2557 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2558 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2561 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2563 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2564 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2565 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2566 simply displayed in place of the message.
2568 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2570 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2571 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2573 Improved text/calendar content handling
2575 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2576 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2577 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2578 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2580 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2582 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2583 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2584 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2585 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2587 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2589 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2590 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2591 for HTML email containing images.
2593 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2595 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2597 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2599 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2602 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2604 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2605 the point where it was.
2607 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2609 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2610 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2611 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2612 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2613 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2615 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2617 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2618 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2619 thread instead of the message id.
2621 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2622 -----------------------------
2624 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2625 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2626 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2627 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2628 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2629 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2630 further details and installation.
2635 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2637 Internal test framework changes
2638 -------------------------------
2640 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2642 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2643 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2644 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2645 can result in buggy behavior.
2647 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2648 =========================
2653 Maildir tag synchronization
2655 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2656 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2657 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2658 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2659 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2660 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2663 Command-Line Interface
2664 ----------------------
2666 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2667 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2668 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2669 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2670 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2676 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2678 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2680 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2681 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2682 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2684 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2686 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2687 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2688 span multiple lines.
2690 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2692 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2693 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2694 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2695 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2696 inside the result or message.
2698 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2700 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2701 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2703 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2704 user-specified formatting
2706 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2707 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2708 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2709 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2710 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2712 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2713 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2715 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2716 ===========================
2721 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2722 compilation error for this contrib package.
2724 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2725 ===========================
2730 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2732 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2733 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2734 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2735 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2737 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2738 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2741 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2742 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2743 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2744 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2747 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2749 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2752 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2753 =========================
2755 Command-Line Interface
2756 ----------------------
2760 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2761 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2762 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2763 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2765 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2766 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2767 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2768 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2772 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2773 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2775 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2776 tag in your query, for example:
2778 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2780 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2781 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2783 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2784 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2786 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2788 Raw show format changes
2790 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2791 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2792 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2793 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2794 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2795 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2796 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2797 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2799 Listing configuration items
2801 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2807 Changes to tagging interface
2809 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2810 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2811 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2812 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2813 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2814 for more information.
2816 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2817 may need to update in custom configurations.
2819 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2821 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2822 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2823 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2824 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2827 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2828 -----------------------------
2830 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2831 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2832 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2833 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2834 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2835 contrib/ from now on.
2840 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2841 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2843 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2844 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2846 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2847 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2848 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2850 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2851 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2853 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2854 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2855 returning the new database object or directory object.
2862 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2863 compatible with go 1.
2865 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2866 =========================
2868 Command-Line Interface
2869 ----------------------
2873 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2874 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2875 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2876 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2878 Mail store folder/file ignore
2880 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2881 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2882 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2884 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2885 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2887 Unified help and manual pages
2889 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2890 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2893 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2895 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2896 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2904 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2905 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2906 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2907 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2909 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2911 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2912 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2914 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2917 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2918 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2919 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2921 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2923 should be changed to:
2925 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2927 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2929 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2930 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2932 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2934 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2935 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2936 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2937 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2938 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2939 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2943 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2944 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2945 of Mailing List Archives.
2947 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2949 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2950 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2953 Show view archiving key binding changes
2955 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2956 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2957 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2958 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2959 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2962 Support text/calendar MIME type
2964 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2967 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2969 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2970 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2971 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2972 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2974 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2976 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2977 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2978 messages blue by default in the search view.
2982 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2983 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2990 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2993 Python bindings changes
2994 -----------------------
2996 Python 3.2 compatibility
2998 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3000 Added missing unicode conversions
3002 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3003 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3004 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3009 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3011 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3012 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3013 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3014 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3015 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3017 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3018 ===========================
3023 Fix error handling in python bindings
3025 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3026 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3027 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3028 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3030 Quote MML tags in replies
3032 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3033 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3034 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3035 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3036 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3037 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3038 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3039 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3041 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3042 =========================
3044 Command-Line Interface
3045 ----------------------
3049 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3050 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3051 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3052 importing new messages into the database.
3054 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3056 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3057 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3058 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3063 Automatic tag query optimization
3065 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3066 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3067 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3069 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3071 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3072 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3073 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3078 Reduction of memory leaks
3080 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3081 and fixed in this release.
3088 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3089 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3090 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3093 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3095 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3096 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3097 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3100 Improvements in saved search management
3102 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3103 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3104 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3106 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3108 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3109 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3110 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3112 New face for crypto parts headers
3114 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3115 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3116 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3119 Use space as default thousands separator
3121 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3122 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3123 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3125 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3126 buttonized id: links
3128 New function notmuch-show-advance
3130 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3131 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3132 be bound to SPC with:
3134 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3136 Various performance improvements
3141 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3142 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3145 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3146 ===========================
3151 Fix crash in python bindings
3153 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3154 for some, but not all users.
3156 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3157 ===========================
3162 Fix `--help` argument
3164 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3165 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3166 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3168 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3169 =========================
3171 New build and testing features
3172 ------------------------------
3174 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3175 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3176 prerequisites is improved.
3178 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3180 New command-line features
3181 -------------------------
3183 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3185 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3186 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3189 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3191 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3192 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3193 favour of using stdout.
3195 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3197 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3198 limit the number of results shown.
3200 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3202 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3203 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3206 New emacs UI features
3207 ---------------------
3209 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3211 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3212 starting with "tag:".
3214 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3216 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3217 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3219 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3221 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3223 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3225 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3226 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3231 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3233 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3235 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3236 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3237 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3238 requires a database rebuild:
3240 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3241 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3243 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3245 New collection of add-on tools
3246 ------------------------------
3248 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3249 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3250 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3253 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3255 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3256 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3257 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3259 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3260 ========================
3262 New, general features
3263 ---------------------
3265 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3267 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3268 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3269 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3270 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3271 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3278 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3279 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3281 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3285 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3286 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3287 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3290 Python bindings changes
3291 -----------------------
3293 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3295 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3296 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3297 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3298 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3299 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3300 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3302 Ruby bindings changes
3303 ---------------------
3305 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3306 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3307 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3308 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3313 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3315 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3316 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3318 Reply formatting cleanup
3319 ------------------------
3321 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3322 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3324 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3325 ========================
3327 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3329 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3330 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3331 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3332 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3335 Improved Build system portability
3337 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3338 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3339 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3341 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3343 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3345 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3347 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3348 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3349 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3351 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3352 ========================
3354 Vim interface improvements
3355 --------------------------
3357 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3359 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3360 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3361 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3362 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3363 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3365 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3367 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3368 * fix compose temp file name
3370 Python Bindings changes
3371 -----------------------
3373 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3375 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3376 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3378 Build-System improvements
3379 -------------------------
3381 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3383 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3386 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3387 ==========================
3392 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3394 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3395 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3397 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3398 =======================
3400 New, general features
3401 ---------------------
3403 Folder-based searching
3405 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3406 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3407 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3411 For example, one might use things such as:
3417 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3418 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3420 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3421 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3422 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3423 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3425 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3426 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3427 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3430 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3431 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3433 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3435 Support for PGP/MIME
3437 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3438 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3439 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3441 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3443 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3444 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3446 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3447 notmuch will receive these tags.
3449 New command-line features
3450 -------------------------
3452 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3454 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3455 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3457 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3459 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3460 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3461 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3463 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3465 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3466 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3467 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3468 which parts a signature part applies).
3470 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3472 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3473 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3474 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3475 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3476 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3479 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3481 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3482 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3483 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3484 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3485 by translating it internally to the new call.
3487 Performance improvements
3488 ------------------------
3490 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3492 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3493 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3494 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3496 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3497 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3499 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3501 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3502 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3503 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3505 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3506 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3507 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3508 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3510 Faster initial indexing
3512 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3513 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3514 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3516 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3518 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3519 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3520 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3521 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3523 New emacs-interface features
3524 ----------------------------
3526 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3528 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3529 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3530 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3531 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3532 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3533 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3535 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3537 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3538 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3539 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3540 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3542 User-selectable From address
3544 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3545 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3546 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3547 will prompt for the from address to use.
3549 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3550 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3551 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3553 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3554 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3555 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3558 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3560 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3561 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3563 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3565 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3567 ----- Original Message -----
3569 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3570 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3571 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3572 citations work much like conventional citations.
3574 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3576 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3577 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3578 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3579 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3580 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3582 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3583 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3585 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3587 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3588 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3589 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3591 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3593 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3594 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3595 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3596 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3597 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3599 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3601 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3604 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3606 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3608 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3610 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3613 Vim interface improvements
3614 --------------------------
3616 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3618 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3619 * Implementing archive in show view
3620 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3621 * Add delete commands
3624 Bindings improvements
3625 ---------------------
3627 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3629 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3630 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3632 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3634 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3638 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3639 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3640 `list(Messages)` works now
3641 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3643 These allow, for example:
3645 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3647 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3649 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3655 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3657 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3660 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3662 New build-system features
3663 -------------------------
3665 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3667 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3668 the configure script from some other directory:
3675 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3677 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3678 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3679 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3680 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3681 manual invocation of configure.
3683 New test-suite feature
3684 ----------------------
3686 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3688 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3689 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3690 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3691 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3692 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3695 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3697 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3698 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3699 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3700 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3701 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3702 are updated to take advantage of this.
3704 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3706 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3707 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3708 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3709 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3715 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3717 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3718 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3719 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3721 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3723 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3725 to:user@elsewhere.com
3727 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3729 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3731 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3733 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3734 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3735 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3738 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3739 from the Received headers in some cases
3741 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3742 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3744 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3746 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3748 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3750 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3751 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3752 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3754 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3755 -------------------------
3757 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3759 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3760 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3761 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3763 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3765 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3766 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3767 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3770 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3772 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3773 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3774 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3775 fixed to avoid this bug.
3777 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3779 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3780 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3782 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3783 ========================
3785 New, general features
3786 ---------------------
3788 Maildir-flag synchronization
3790 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3791 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3800 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3802 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3803 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3804 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3805 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3807 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3808 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3809 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3810 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3813 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3815 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3816 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3817 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3819 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3820 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3822 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3823 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3825 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3826 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3827 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3829 New library features
3830 --------------------
3832 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3834 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3835 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3836 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3837 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3839 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3840 message with the new function:
3842 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3844 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3845 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3846 over all available filenames for a given message.
3848 New command-line features
3849 -------------------------
3851 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3853 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3854 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3855 access to the mail store itself.
3857 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3858 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3859 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3860 name of a script containing:
3862 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3864 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3865 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3871 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3873 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3875 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3877 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3878 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3879 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3880 now produces nothing).
3882 Emacs interface improvements
3883 ----------------------------
3885 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3887 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3889 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3891 Display current thread subject in a header line
3893 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3895 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3897 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3898 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3899 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3900 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3901 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3902 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3903 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3905 Vim interface improvements
3906 --------------------------
3908 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3910 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3911 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3917 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3919 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3920 ========================
3922 New command-line features
3923 -------------------------
3925 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3927 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3928 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3929 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3931 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3932 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3933 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3934 scripts. For example:
3936 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3937 <operations-on> "$file"
3940 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3942 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3943 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3944 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3945 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3946 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3947 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3949 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3951 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3952 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3953 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3954 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3956 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3958 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3959 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3960 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3961 default rather than Bcc.
3963 New library features
3964 --------------------
3966 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3968 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3969 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3974 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3976 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3977 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3978 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3979 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3980 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3981 notmuch customize interface.
3983 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3985 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3986 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3987 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3988 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3990 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3992 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3993 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3994 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3995 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3997 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3999 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4000 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4001 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4002 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4003 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4004 notmuch customize interface.
4006 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4008 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4009 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4010 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4011 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4012 notmuch customize interface.
4014 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4016 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4017 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4018 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4019 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4022 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4024 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4025 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4026 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4029 New build-system features
4030 -------------------------
4032 Various portability fixes have been applied
4034 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4035 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4036 more portable than ever before.
4038 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4040 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4041 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4042 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4044 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4045 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4046 automatically run ldconfig.
4048 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4049 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4050 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4052 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4053 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4054 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4055 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4057 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4059 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4060 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4061 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4062 used in the resulting Makefile.
4064 New test-suite features
4065 -----------------------
4067 New modularization of test suite
4069 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4070 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4071 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4072 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4073 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4074 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4075 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4076 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4078 New testing of emacs interface
4080 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4081 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4082 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4083 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4084 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4085 database via the FCC setting.
4090 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4092 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4093 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4094 persistent error of the form:
4096 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4098 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4099 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4101 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4103 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4104 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4105 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4107 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4109 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4110 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4111 parsing the notmuch results).
4113 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4115 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4118 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4119 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4120 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4125 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4127 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4128 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4129 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4130 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4131 the emacs interface.
4133 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4135 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4136 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4137 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4139 Python-binding fixes
4140 --------------------
4142 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4144 Debian-specific fixes
4145 ---------------------
4147 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4149 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4150 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4151 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4154 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4155 ==========================
4160 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4162 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4163 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4164 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4165 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4167 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4169 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4170 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4171 want notmuch to crash.
4176 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4178 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4179 directory does not exist
4184 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4186 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4187 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4189 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4190 ========================
4192 New command-line features
4193 -------------------------
4195 User-configurable tags for new messages
4197 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4198 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4199 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4200 to specify this value.
4202 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4204 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4205 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4206 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4208 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4210 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4211 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4213 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4215 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4216 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4217 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4218 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4219 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4222 Indication of author names that match a search
4224 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4225 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4226 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4227 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4228 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4229 messages in the thread are listed first.
4231 New: Python bindings
4232 --------------------
4234 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4235 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4236 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4237 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4239 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4240 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4241 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4244 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4245 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4246 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4248 Emacs interface improvements
4249 ----------------------------
4251 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4253 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4254 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4255 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4256 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4257 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4258 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4259 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4260 but without any of the disadvantages).
4262 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4263 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4264 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4267 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4268 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4269 instead running something like:
4271 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4273 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4274 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4275 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4278 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4280 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4281 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4282 tweaked by the user.
4284 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4285 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4286 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4289 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4290 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4291 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4294 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4296 This support currently relies on an external program,
4297 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4298 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4299 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4300 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4301 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4304 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4305 notmuch) is available via:
4307 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4309 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4310 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4311 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4313 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4315 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4316 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4317 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4318 making this automatic in a future release.
4320 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4322 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4323 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4324 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4325 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4326 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4327 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4330 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4332 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4333 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4334 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4336 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4338 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4339 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4340 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4342 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4343 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4344 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4345 other representation.
4347 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4348 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4351 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4353 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4354 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4355 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4357 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4358 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4359 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4361 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4363 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4364 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4365 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4366 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4367 to display the search result.
4369 More flexible handling of header visibility
4371 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4372 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4373 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4374 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4375 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4376 with the 'h' keybinding.
4378 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4379 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4380 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4382 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4384 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4386 Customizable formatting of search results
4388 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4389 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4390 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4392 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4394 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4396 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4401 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4403 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4404 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4405 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4406 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4412 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4414 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4415 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4417 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4419 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4420 accept are now all accepted.
4425 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4427 Better display of output from failed tests
4429 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4430 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4432 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4433 ========================
4435 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4436 detailed release notes this time!
4438 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4439 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4441 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4442 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4443 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4444 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4451 Better guessing of From: header
4453 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4454 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4455 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4456 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4457 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4460 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4462 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4463 guaranteed to match all messages.
4465 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4467 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4468 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4469 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4470 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4471 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4474 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4477 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4478 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4479 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4480 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4485 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4487 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4488 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4489 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4490 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4492 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4494 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4496 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4497 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4498 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4500 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4502 Previously, the user might see:
4504 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4508 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4510 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4511 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4512 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4513 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4515 Emacs client features
4516 ---------------------
4518 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4520 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4521 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4522 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4523 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4524 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4526 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4529 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4530 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4531 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4532 search with the '*' binding.
4534 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4536 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4537 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4540 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4542 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4543 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4544 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4546 Build-system features
4547 ---------------------
4549 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4551 Add support to configure for many standard options
4553 We include actual support for:
4555 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4557 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4559 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4560 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4562 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4563 separate "make install-emacs"
4565 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4567 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4568 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4569 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4571 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4574 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4575 ========================
4577 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4579 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4580 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4582 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4583 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4584 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4585 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4586 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4587 tags from messages in a thread.
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