1 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-06-01)
2 =========================
4 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
5 ===========================
10 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
12 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
17 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
19 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
20 ===========================
25 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
26 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
28 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
29 ===========================
34 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
36 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
37 =========================
42 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
43 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
46 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
47 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
48 the set of headers to be indexed.
50 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
53 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
54 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
55 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
58 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
59 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
60 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
62 Command Line Interface
63 ----------------------
65 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
68 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
70 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
71 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
72 more details about what is included there. This status includes
73 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
78 Optionally check for missing attachements in outgoing messages (see
79 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
81 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
83 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
85 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
87 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
89 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
92 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
94 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
95 and may be removed in a future release.
97 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
103 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
105 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
106 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
111 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
112 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
113 cryptography support.
118 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
119 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
120 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
122 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
123 ===========================
125 Command line interface
126 ----------------------
128 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
129 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
131 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
132 ===========================
137 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
138 by message properties.
143 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
145 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
146 ===========================
151 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
156 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
157 now needed to build this documentation.
159 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
160 ===========================
165 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
166 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
168 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
169 =========================
176 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
177 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
178 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
179 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
180 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
183 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
185 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
186 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
187 correct encoding for such messages.
189 Command Line Interface
190 ----------------------
192 Support relative database paths
194 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
195 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
196 to $HOME of the invoking user.
201 Improve stderr handling
203 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
204 needed on e.g. macOS.
206 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
208 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
213 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
214 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
220 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
221 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
227 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
228 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
231 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
232 =========================
237 Add support for thread:{} queries
239 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
240 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
241 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
243 Command Line Interface
244 ----------------------
246 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
248 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
250 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
252 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
253 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
254 does not have to be available during message receipt.
259 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
265 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
266 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
268 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
269 ===========================
274 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
276 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
277 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
278 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
280 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
282 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
283 related abort in `notmuch show`.
285 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
286 ===========================
291 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
292 better late than never.
295 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
296 =========================
298 Command Line Interface
299 ----------------------
301 Support for re-indexing existing messages
303 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
304 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
305 change the way specific messages are indexed.
307 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
308 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
309 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
311 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
313 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
315 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
317 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
318 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
319 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
320 the setting of `new.tags`.
322 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
324 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
326 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
328 This inserts into the top level folder.
330 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
332 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
334 New option --output=address for notmuch address
336 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
338 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
340 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
341 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
342 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
344 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
349 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
351 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
352 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
353 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
354 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
355 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
356 config set index.decrypt true".
358 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
359 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
360 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
361 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
362 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
363 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
364 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
365 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
367 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
368 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
369 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
370 this feature without considering the security of your index.
375 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
377 Use make-process when available
379 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
380 notmuch command without using temporary files.
385 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
387 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
388 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
389 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
390 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
392 New functions to count files
394 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
395 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
397 New function to remove properties
399 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
400 drop all properties with a common pattern:
401 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
403 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
405 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
406 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
407 possibility of NULL was not documented.
409 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
411 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
412 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
413 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
414 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
415 operator may decide to change from message to message.
422 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
423 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
424 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
430 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
432 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
433 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
435 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
437 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
439 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
441 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
446 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
447 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
449 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
450 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
451 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
452 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
453 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
454 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
459 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
461 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
462 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
463 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
464 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
466 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
467 ===========================
472 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
473 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
476 Command Line Interface
477 ----------------------
479 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
480 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
483 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
484 ===========================
486 Command Line Interface
487 ----------------------
489 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
490 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
495 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
498 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
499 ===========================
504 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
507 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
508 =========================
513 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
515 Skip HTML tags when indexing
517 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
519 Command Line Interface
520 ----------------------
522 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
524 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
529 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
531 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
532 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
535 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
540 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
542 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
543 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
545 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
547 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
548 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
551 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
553 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
555 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
557 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
558 ===========================
560 Command Line Interface
561 ----------------------
563 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
568 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
570 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
571 ===========================
576 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
578 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
579 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
582 Command Line Interface
583 ----------------------
585 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
587 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
589 Fix bug in dump header
591 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
592 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
593 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
598 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
600 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
601 =========================
606 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
608 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
611 Command Line Interface
612 ----------------------
614 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
616 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
617 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
618 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
620 New default output format to 3
622 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
623 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
624 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
625 default format changes.
630 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
632 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
633 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
634 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
635 or tree view to resume.
637 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
638 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
639 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
642 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
643 they were when you postponed in the final message.
647 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
648 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
649 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
650 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
651 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
655 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
656 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
657 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
658 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
659 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
660 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
664 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
665 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
667 Stop display of `application/*` parts
669 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
670 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
671 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
672 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
673 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
674 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
675 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
676 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
679 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
681 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
682 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
683 only tagged the current thread.)
685 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
687 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
688 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
689 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
691 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
693 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
694 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
695 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
696 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
697 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
698 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
699 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
701 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
703 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
704 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
705 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
710 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
712 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
715 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
717 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
720 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
721 ===========================
726 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
728 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
729 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
730 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
733 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
734 ===========================
736 Command Line Interface
737 ----------------------
739 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
744 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
746 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
747 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
748 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
750 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
751 ===========================
756 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
757 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
759 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
760 ===========================
762 Command Line Interface
763 ----------------------
765 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
767 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
768 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
769 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
774 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
776 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
777 ===========================
779 Command Line Interface
780 ----------------------
782 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
787 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
789 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
790 ===========================
795 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
797 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
798 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
799 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
801 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
803 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
805 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
806 ===========================
811 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
813 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
818 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
820 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
821 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
822 the original colours.
824 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
825 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
827 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
829 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
830 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
831 bug, and hence the test.
833 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
834 =========================
836 General (Xapian 1.4+)
837 ---------------------
839 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
841 Support for single argument date: queries
843 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
845 Support for blocking opens
847 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
848 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
850 Support for named queries
852 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
853 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
854 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
861 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
862 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
863 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
864 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
866 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
868 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
873 Support for compile time options
875 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
876 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
879 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
881 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
882 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
883 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
884 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
885 scripts to ignore it.
890 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
892 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
893 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
894 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
896 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
897 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
898 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
899 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
900 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
901 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
902 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
904 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
905 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
908 Make internal address completion customizable
910 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
911 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
912 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
913 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
916 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
918 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
919 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
920 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
921 completion for the current buffer.
923 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
924 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
925 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
929 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
930 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
931 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
932 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
933 will be added instead.
935 Face customization is easier
937 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
938 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
939 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
940 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
942 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
947 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
952 Go bindings moved to contrib
954 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
956 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
958 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
959 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
961 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
963 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
964 ===========================
971 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
972 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
974 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
976 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
978 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
979 ===========================
984 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
986 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
991 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
996 Use `env` to locate perl.
1001 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1003 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1005 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1007 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1009 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1010 =========================
1017 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1018 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1020 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1022 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1023 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1024 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1029 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1030 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1031 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1033 Command Line Interface
1034 ----------------------
1036 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1038 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1043 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1048 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1050 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1051 parts are now included in replies.
1053 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1054 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1055 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1056 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1058 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1060 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1062 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1064 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1065 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1066 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1067 forwards only the current message.
1069 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1071 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1072 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1073 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1074 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1075 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1076 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1077 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1078 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1081 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1082 longer generate empty buffers
1084 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1085 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1086 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1087 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1088 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1090 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1092 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1095 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1097 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1100 Address completion improvements
1102 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1103 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1104 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1105 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1106 interactive address completion.
1108 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1110 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1111 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1112 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1117 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1118 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1119 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1125 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1126 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1127 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1128 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1129 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1130 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1132 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1133 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1134 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1135 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1136 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1137 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1139 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1140 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1142 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1143 =========================
1148 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1151 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1153 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1154 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1155 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1157 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1158 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1160 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1161 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1162 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1164 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1166 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1167 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1168 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1169 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1170 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1171 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1176 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1177 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1180 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1181 option to configure.
1183 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1185 Command Line Interface
1186 ----------------------
1188 Database revision tracking
1190 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1191 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1192 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1193 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1195 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1197 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1198 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1199 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1200 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1201 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1202 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1203 manual page for further information.
1208 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1210 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1211 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1213 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1215 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1216 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1217 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1219 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1221 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1223 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1224 customization as well.
1226 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1228 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1230 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1232 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1234 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1235 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1236 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1237 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1239 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1241 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1242 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1243 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1244 this variable to 10000.
1249 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1250 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1252 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1254 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1255 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1256 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1257 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1258 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1259 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1260 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1261 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1262 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1265 Database revision tracking
1267 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1268 query parser and the new function
1269 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1271 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1273 Deprecated functions
1275 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1276 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1277 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1278 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1283 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1285 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1286 ===========================
1291 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1293 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1294 ===========================
1299 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1301 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1302 =========================
1304 Command-Line Interface
1305 ----------------------
1307 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1309 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1310 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1311 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1313 Path to gpg is now configurable
1315 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1316 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1321 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1323 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1328 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1333 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1338 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1340 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1341 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1343 New error logging facility
1345 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1346 output formerly printed to stderr.
1348 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1350 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1352 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1354 Fix for rounding of seconds
1359 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1361 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1362 documentation has been removed.
1364 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1366 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1367 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1372 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1373 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1374 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1379 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1380 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1381 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1382 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1383 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1384 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1387 git checkout config origin/config
1389 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1391 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1392 =========================
1397 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1398 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1399 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1400 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1401 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1402 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1403 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1405 Command-Line Interface
1406 ----------------------
1408 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1410 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1411 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1412 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1413 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1414 script callers should still check the return value.
1416 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1418 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1419 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1420 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1421 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1422 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1423 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1424 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1426 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1428 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1429 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1430 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1432 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1434 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1435 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1436 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1437 currently unmaintained.
1439 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1441 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1442 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1443 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1444 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1446 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1448 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1449 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1450 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1451 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1452 count of duplicate addresses.
1457 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1459 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1460 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1461 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1464 Improved handling of the unread tag
1466 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1467 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1468 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1469 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1470 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1471 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1472 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1474 Expanded default saved search settings
1476 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1477 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1479 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1481 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1482 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1483 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1485 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1487 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1488 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1489 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1490 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1491 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1492 the variable for details.
1497 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1499 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1500 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1501 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1502 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1504 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1506 Previously, library users were required to call
1507 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1508 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1509 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1510 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1511 too out of date for that API.
1513 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1515 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1516 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1517 atomic section will be aborted.
1519 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1520 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1522 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1524 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1525 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1526 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1527 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1528 messages into the same thread.
1533 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1534 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1535 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1536 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1537 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1538 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1543 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1544 from the config file. Use something like:
1548 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1549 "footer": "</body></html>",
1558 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1563 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1564 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1565 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1567 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1568 ===========================
1573 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1575 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1577 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1579 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1580 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1582 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1584 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1587 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1588 ===========================
1590 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1595 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1597 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1599 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1601 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1603 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1609 Use --quick when starting emacs
1611 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1613 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1615 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1617 Command-Line Interface
1618 ----------------------
1620 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1621 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1626 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1628 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1629 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1631 Fix for phrase indexing
1633 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1634 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1635 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1640 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1642 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1643 unintentionally removed.
1645 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1646 =========================
1651 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1652 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1653 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1654 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1655 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1656 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1657 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1658 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1659 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1665 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1667 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1668 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1669 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1670 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1671 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1672 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1673 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1674 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1676 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1678 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1679 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1680 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1681 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1684 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1686 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1687 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1688 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1689 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1690 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1691 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1692 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1697 Notmuch database upgrade
1699 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1700 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1701 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1702 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1703 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1704 released version of Notmuch before now.
1706 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1708 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1709 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1710 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1711 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1713 Message header parsing changes
1715 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1716 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1717 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1718 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1719 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1720 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1722 Command-Line Interface
1723 ----------------------
1725 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1727 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1729 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1731 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1733 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1735 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1736 user does not want it.
1738 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1740 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1741 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1742 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1743 support formatted output.
1745 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1747 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1748 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1749 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1757 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1758 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1759 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1760 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1761 `~/.emacs` with these.
1763 Changed format for saved searches
1765 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1766 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1767 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1768 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1771 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1772 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1773 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1774 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1776 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1777 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1778 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1780 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1781 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1782 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1783 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1784 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1786 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1788 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1789 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1790 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1792 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1794 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1795 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1796 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1797 message had been unread).
1799 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1800 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1801 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1802 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1804 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1805 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1806 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1808 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1809 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1810 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1811 to tags already present.
1815 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1816 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1817 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1818 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1819 these differ from each other.
1820 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1822 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1824 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1825 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1826 for these Emacs versions.
1828 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1830 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1831 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1833 Bug fixes for sender identities
1835 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1836 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1837 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1839 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1841 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1842 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1843 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1844 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1846 Reply pushes mark before signature
1848 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1849 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1850 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1852 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1854 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1855 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1861 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1862 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1864 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1865 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1866 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1867 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1869 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1870 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1871 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1872 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1873 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1875 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1877 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1878 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1880 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1881 =========================
1883 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1884 ---------------------------------------
1886 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1887 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1888 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1889 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1890 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1891 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1892 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1896 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1897 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1899 Command-Line Interface
1900 ----------------------
1902 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1904 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1905 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1906 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1907 print for each message.
1909 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1910 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1911 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1912 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1914 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1916 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1917 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1918 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1920 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1922 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1923 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1924 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1925 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1927 `notmuch compact` command
1929 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1930 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1931 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1932 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1933 move the compacted database into place.
1938 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1940 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1941 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1942 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1943 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1944 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1945 and multiple threads.
1947 Using `notmuch-tree`
1949 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1951 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1952 search, show and tree mode itself)
1954 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1957 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1958 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1960 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1962 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1963 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1964 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1965 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1966 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1967 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1968 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1970 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1972 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1973 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1974 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1975 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1976 thread when the search was performed.
1978 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1980 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1981 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1982 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1984 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1986 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1987 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1990 Built-in help improvements
1992 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1993 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1994 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1996 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1998 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1999 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2000 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2002 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2004 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2005 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2007 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2009 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2010 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2011 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2012 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2014 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2016 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2017 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2018 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2019 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2021 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2023 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2024 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2025 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2027 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2029 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2030 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2031 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2033 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2035 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2036 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2037 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2038 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2039 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2041 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2043 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2044 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2045 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2046 the body part of the message.
2051 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2052 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2053 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2055 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2056 =========================
2058 Command-Line Interface
2059 ----------------------
2061 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2063 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2064 folder and notmuch index.
2066 `notmuch count --batch` option
2068 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2069 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2071 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2073 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2074 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2075 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2078 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2080 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2081 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2082 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2083 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2084 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2087 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2089 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2090 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2092 Top level option to specify configuration file
2094 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2095 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2097 Bash command-line completion
2099 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2100 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2101 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2102 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2103 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2104 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2105 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2106 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2107 bash-completion package.
2109 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2114 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2116 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2117 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2118 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2119 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2120 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2121 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2122 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2123 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2125 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2127 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2128 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2129 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2131 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2133 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2134 previous thread in the search results.
2136 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2138 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2139 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2141 Faster search and show
2143 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2144 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2145 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2146 threads should show faster.
2150 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2151 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2152 in question was now removed from this release.
2157 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2158 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2163 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2165 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2166 ===========================
2171 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2173 Internal test framework changes
2174 -------------------------------
2176 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2177 being unimplemented.
2179 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2180 ===========================
2182 Internal test framework changes
2183 -------------------------------
2185 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2186 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2188 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2189 =========================
2194 Date range search support
2196 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2197 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2198 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2199 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2200 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2203 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2205 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2206 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2207 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2208 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2209 but may be removed in a future release.
2211 Command-Line Interface
2212 ----------------------
2214 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2216 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2217 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2219 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2221 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2222 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2223 officially deprecated.
2225 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2227 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2228 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2229 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2231 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2233 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2234 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2237 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2238 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2239 dump/restore format.
2241 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2243 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2244 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2245 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2247 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2249 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2250 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2251 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2253 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2255 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2256 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2257 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2258 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2263 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2265 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2266 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2267 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2268 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2270 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2272 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2273 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2274 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2275 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2276 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2277 the behavior of this, see
2278 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2279 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2281 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2282 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2283 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2285 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2287 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2288 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2291 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2293 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2294 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2295 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2296 simply displayed in place of the message.
2298 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2300 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2301 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2303 Improved text/calendar content handling
2305 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2306 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2307 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2308 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2310 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2312 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2313 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2314 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2315 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2317 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2319 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2320 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2321 for HTML email containing images.
2323 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2325 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2327 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2329 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2332 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2334 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2335 the point where it was.
2337 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2339 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2340 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2341 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2342 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2343 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2345 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2347 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2348 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2349 thread instead of the message id.
2351 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2352 -----------------------------
2354 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2355 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2356 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2357 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2358 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2359 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2360 further details and installation.
2365 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2367 Internal test framework changes
2368 -------------------------------
2370 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2372 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2373 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2374 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2375 can result in buggy behavior.
2377 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2378 =========================
2383 Maildir tag synchronization
2385 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2386 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2387 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2388 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2389 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2390 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2393 Command-Line Interface
2394 ----------------------
2396 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2397 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2398 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2399 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2400 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2406 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2408 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2410 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2411 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2412 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2414 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2416 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2417 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2418 span multiple lines.
2420 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2422 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2423 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2424 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2425 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2426 inside the result or message.
2428 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2430 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2431 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2433 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2434 user-specified formatting
2436 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2437 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2438 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2439 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2440 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2442 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2443 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2445 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2446 ===========================
2451 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2452 compilation error for this contrib package.
2454 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2455 ===========================
2460 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2462 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2463 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2464 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2465 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2467 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2468 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2471 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2472 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2473 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2474 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2477 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2479 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2482 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2483 =========================
2485 Command-Line Interface
2486 ----------------------
2490 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2491 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2492 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2493 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2495 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2496 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2497 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2498 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2502 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2503 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2505 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2506 tag in your query, for example:
2508 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2510 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2511 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2513 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2514 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2516 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2518 Raw show format changes
2520 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2521 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2522 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2523 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2524 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2525 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2526 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2527 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2529 Listing configuration items
2531 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2537 Changes to tagging interface
2539 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2540 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2541 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2542 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2543 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2544 for more information.
2546 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2547 may need to update in custom configurations.
2549 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2551 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2552 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2553 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2554 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2557 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2558 -----------------------------
2560 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2561 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2562 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2563 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2564 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2565 contrib/ from now on.
2570 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2571 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2573 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2574 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2576 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2577 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2578 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2580 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2581 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2583 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2584 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2585 returning the new database object or directory object.
2592 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2593 compatible with go 1.
2595 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2596 =========================
2598 Command-Line Interface
2599 ----------------------
2603 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2604 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2605 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2606 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2608 Mail store folder/file ignore
2610 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2611 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2612 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2614 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2615 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2617 Unified help and manual pages
2619 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2620 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2623 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2625 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2626 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2634 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2635 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2636 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2637 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2639 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2641 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2642 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2644 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2647 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2648 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2649 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2651 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2653 should be changed to:
2655 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2657 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2659 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2660 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2662 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2664 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2665 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2666 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2667 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2668 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2669 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2673 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2674 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2675 of Mailing List Archives.
2677 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2679 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2680 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2683 Show view archiving key binding changes
2685 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2686 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2687 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2688 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2689 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2692 Support text/calendar MIME type
2694 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2697 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2699 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2700 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2701 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2702 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2704 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2706 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2707 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2708 messages blue by default in the search view.
2712 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2713 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2720 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2723 Python bindings changes
2724 -----------------------
2726 Python 3.2 compatibility
2728 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2730 Added missing unicode conversions
2732 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2733 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2734 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2739 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2741 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2742 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2743 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2744 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2745 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2747 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2748 ===========================
2753 Fix error handling in python bindings
2755 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2756 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2757 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2758 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2760 Quote MML tags in replies
2762 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2763 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2764 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2765 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2766 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2767 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2768 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2769 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2771 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2772 =========================
2774 Command-Line Interface
2775 ----------------------
2779 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2780 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2781 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2782 importing new messages into the database.
2784 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2786 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2787 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2788 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2793 Automatic tag query optimization
2795 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2796 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2797 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2799 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2801 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2802 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2803 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2808 Reduction of memory leaks
2810 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2811 and fixed in this release.
2818 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2819 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2820 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2823 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2825 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2826 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2827 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2830 Improvements in saved search management
2832 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2833 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2834 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2836 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2838 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2839 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2840 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2842 New face for crypto parts headers
2844 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2845 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2846 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2849 Use space as default thousands separator
2851 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2852 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2853 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2855 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2856 buttonized id: links
2858 New function notmuch-show-advance
2860 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2861 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2862 be bound to SPC with:
2864 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2866 Various performance improvements
2871 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2872 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2875 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2876 ===========================
2881 Fix crash in python bindings
2883 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2884 for some, but not all users.
2886 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2887 ===========================
2892 Fix `--help` argument
2894 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2895 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2896 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2898 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2899 =========================
2901 New build and testing features
2902 ------------------------------
2904 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2905 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2906 prerequisites is improved.
2908 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2910 New command-line features
2911 -------------------------
2913 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2915 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2916 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2919 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2921 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2922 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2923 favour of using stdout.
2925 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2927 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2928 limit the number of results shown.
2930 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2932 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2933 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2936 New emacs UI features
2937 ---------------------
2939 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2941 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2942 starting with "tag:".
2944 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2946 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2947 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2949 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2951 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2953 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2955 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2956 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2961 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2963 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2965 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2966 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2967 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2968 requires a database rebuild:
2970 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2971 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2973 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2975 New collection of add-on tools
2976 ------------------------------
2978 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2979 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2980 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2983 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2985 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2986 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2987 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2989 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2990 ========================
2992 New, general features
2993 ---------------------
2995 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2997 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2998 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2999 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3000 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3001 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3008 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3009 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3011 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3015 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3016 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3017 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3020 Python bindings changes
3021 -----------------------
3023 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3025 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3026 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3027 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3028 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3029 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3030 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3032 Ruby bindings changes
3033 ---------------------
3035 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3036 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3037 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3038 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3043 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3045 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3046 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3048 Reply formatting cleanup
3049 ------------------------
3051 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3052 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3054 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3055 ========================
3057 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3059 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3060 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3061 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3062 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3065 Improved Build system portability
3067 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3068 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3069 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3071 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3073 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3075 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3077 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3078 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3079 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3081 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3082 ========================
3084 Vim interface improvements
3085 --------------------------
3087 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3089 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3090 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3091 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3092 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3093 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3095 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3097 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3098 * fix compose temp file name
3100 Python Bindings changes
3101 -----------------------
3103 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3105 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3106 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3108 Build-System improvements
3109 -------------------------
3111 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3113 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3116 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3117 ==========================
3122 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3124 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3125 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3127 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3128 =======================
3130 New, general features
3131 ---------------------
3133 Folder-based searching
3135 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3136 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3137 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3141 For example, one might use things such as:
3147 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3148 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3150 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3151 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3152 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3153 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3155 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3156 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3157 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3160 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3161 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3163 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3165 Support for PGP/MIME
3167 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3168 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3169 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3171 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3173 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3174 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3176 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3177 notmuch will receive these tags.
3179 New command-line features
3180 -------------------------
3182 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3184 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3185 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3187 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3189 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3190 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3191 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3193 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3195 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3196 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3197 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3198 which parts a signature part applies).
3200 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3202 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3203 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3204 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3205 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3206 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3209 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3211 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3212 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3213 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3214 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3215 by translating it internally to the new call.
3217 Performance improvements
3218 ------------------------
3220 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3222 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3223 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3224 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3226 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3227 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3229 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3231 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3232 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3233 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3235 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3236 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3237 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3238 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3240 Faster initial indexing
3242 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3243 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3244 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3246 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3248 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3249 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3250 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3251 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3253 New emacs-interface features
3254 ----------------------------
3256 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3258 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3259 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3260 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3261 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3262 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3263 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3265 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3267 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3268 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3269 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3270 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3272 User-selectable From address
3274 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3275 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3276 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3277 will prompt for the from address to use.
3279 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3280 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3281 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3283 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3284 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3285 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3288 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3290 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3291 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3293 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3295 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3297 ----- Original Message -----
3299 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3300 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3301 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3302 citations work much like conventional citations.
3304 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3306 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3307 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3308 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3309 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3310 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3312 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3313 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3315 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3317 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3318 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3319 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3321 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3323 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3324 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3325 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3326 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3327 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3329 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3331 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3334 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3336 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3338 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3340 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3343 Vim interface improvements
3344 --------------------------
3346 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3348 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3349 * Implementing archive in show view
3350 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3351 * Add delete commands
3354 Bindings improvements
3355 ---------------------
3357 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3359 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3360 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3362 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3364 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3368 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3369 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3370 `list(Messages)` works now
3371 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3373 These allow, for example:
3375 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3377 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3379 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3385 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3387 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3390 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3392 New build-system features
3393 -------------------------
3395 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3397 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3398 the configure script from some other directory:
3405 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3407 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3408 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3409 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3410 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3411 manual invocation of configure.
3413 New test-suite feature
3414 ----------------------
3416 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3418 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3419 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3420 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3421 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3422 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3425 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3427 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3428 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3429 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3430 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3431 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3432 are updated to take advantage of this.
3434 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3436 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3437 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3438 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3439 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3445 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3447 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3448 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3449 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3451 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3453 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3455 to:user@elsewhere.com
3457 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3459 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3461 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3463 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3464 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3465 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3468 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3469 from the Received headers in some cases
3471 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3472 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3474 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3476 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3478 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3480 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3481 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3482 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3484 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3485 -------------------------
3487 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3489 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3490 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3491 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3493 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3495 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3496 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3497 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3500 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3502 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3503 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3504 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3505 fixed to avoid this bug.
3507 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3509 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3510 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3512 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3513 ========================
3515 New, general features
3516 ---------------------
3518 Maildir-flag synchronization
3520 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3521 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3530 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3532 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3533 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3534 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3535 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3537 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3538 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3539 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3540 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3543 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3545 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3546 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3547 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3549 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3550 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3552 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3553 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3555 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3556 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3557 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3559 New library features
3560 --------------------
3562 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3564 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3565 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3566 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3567 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3569 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3570 message with the new function:
3572 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3574 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3575 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3576 over all available filenames for a given message.
3578 New command-line features
3579 -------------------------
3581 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3583 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3584 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3585 access to the mail store itself.
3587 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3588 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3589 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3590 name of a script containing:
3592 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3594 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3595 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3601 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3603 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3605 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3607 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3608 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3609 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3610 now produces nothing).
3612 Emacs interface improvements
3613 ----------------------------
3615 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3617 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3619 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3621 Display current thread subject in a header line
3623 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3625 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3627 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3628 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3629 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3630 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3631 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3632 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3633 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3635 Vim interface improvements
3636 --------------------------
3638 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3640 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3641 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3647 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3649 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3650 ========================
3652 New command-line features
3653 -------------------------
3655 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3657 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3658 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3659 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3661 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3662 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3663 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3664 scripts. For example:
3666 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3667 <operations-on> "$file"
3670 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3672 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3673 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3674 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3675 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3676 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3677 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3679 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3681 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3682 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3683 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3684 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3686 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3688 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3689 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3690 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3691 default rather than Bcc.
3693 New library features
3694 --------------------
3696 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3698 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3699 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3704 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3706 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3707 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3708 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3709 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3710 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3711 notmuch customize interface.
3713 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3715 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3716 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3717 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3718 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3720 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3722 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3723 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3724 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3725 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3727 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3729 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3730 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3731 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3732 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3733 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3734 notmuch customize interface.
3736 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3738 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3739 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3740 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3741 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3742 notmuch customize interface.
3744 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3746 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3747 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3748 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3749 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3752 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3754 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3755 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3756 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3759 New build-system features
3760 -------------------------
3762 Various portability fixes have been applied
3764 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3765 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3766 more portable than ever before.
3768 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3770 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3771 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3772 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3774 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3775 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3776 automatically run ldconfig.
3778 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3779 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3780 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3782 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3783 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3784 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3785 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3787 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3789 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3790 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3791 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3792 used in the resulting Makefile.
3794 New test-suite features
3795 -----------------------
3797 New modularization of test suite
3799 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3800 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3801 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3802 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3803 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3804 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3805 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3806 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3808 New testing of emacs interface
3810 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3811 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3812 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3813 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3814 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3815 database via the FCC setting.
3820 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3822 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3823 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3824 persistent error of the form:
3826 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3828 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3829 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3831 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3833 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3834 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3835 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3837 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3839 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3840 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3841 parsing the notmuch results).
3843 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3845 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3848 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3849 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3850 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3855 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3857 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3858 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3859 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3860 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3861 the emacs interface.
3863 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3865 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3866 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3867 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3869 Python-binding fixes
3870 --------------------
3872 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3874 Debian-specific fixes
3875 ---------------------
3877 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3879 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3880 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3881 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3884 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3885 ==========================
3890 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3892 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3893 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3894 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3895 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3897 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3899 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3900 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3901 want notmuch to crash.
3906 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3908 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3909 directory does not exist
3914 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3916 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3917 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3919 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3920 ========================
3922 New command-line features
3923 -------------------------
3925 User-configurable tags for new messages
3927 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3928 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3929 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3930 to specify this value.
3932 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3934 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3935 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3936 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3938 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3940 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3941 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3943 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3945 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3946 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3947 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3948 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3949 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3952 Indication of author names that match a search
3954 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3955 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3956 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3957 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3958 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3959 messages in the thread are listed first.
3961 New: Python bindings
3962 --------------------
3964 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3965 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3966 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3967 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3969 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3970 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3971 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3974 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3975 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3976 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3978 Emacs interface improvements
3979 ----------------------------
3981 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3983 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3984 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3985 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3986 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3987 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3988 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3989 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3990 but without any of the disadvantages).
3992 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3993 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3994 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3997 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3998 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3999 instead running something like:
4001 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4003 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4004 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4005 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4008 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4010 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4011 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4012 tweaked by the user.
4014 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4015 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4016 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4019 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4020 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4021 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4024 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4026 This support currently relies on an external program,
4027 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4028 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4029 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4030 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4031 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4034 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4035 notmuch) is available via:
4037 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4039 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4040 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4041 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4043 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4045 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4046 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4047 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4048 making this automatic in a future release.
4050 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4052 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4053 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4054 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4055 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4056 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4057 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4060 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4062 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4063 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4064 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4066 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4068 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4069 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4070 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4072 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4073 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4074 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4075 other representation.
4077 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4078 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4081 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4083 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4084 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4085 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4087 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4088 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4089 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4091 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4093 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4094 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4095 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4096 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4097 to display the search result.
4099 More flexible handling of header visibility
4101 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4102 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4103 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4104 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4105 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4106 with the 'h' keybinding.
4108 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4109 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4110 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4112 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4114 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4116 Customizable formatting of search results
4118 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4119 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4120 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4122 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4124 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4126 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4131 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4133 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4134 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4135 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4136 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4142 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4144 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4145 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4147 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4149 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4150 accept are now all accepted.
4155 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4157 Better display of output from failed tests
4159 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4160 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4162 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4163 ========================
4165 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4166 detailed release notes this time!
4168 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4169 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4171 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4172 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4173 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4174 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4181 Better guessing of From: header
4183 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4184 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4185 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4186 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4187 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4190 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4192 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4193 guaranteed to match all messages.
4195 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4197 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4198 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4199 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4200 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4201 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4204 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4207 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4208 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4209 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4210 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4215 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4217 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4218 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4219 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4220 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4222 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4224 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4226 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4227 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4228 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4230 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4232 Previously, the user might see:
4234 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4238 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4240 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4241 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4242 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4243 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4245 Emacs client features
4246 ---------------------
4248 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4250 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4251 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4252 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4253 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4254 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4256 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4259 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4260 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4261 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4262 search with the '*' binding.
4264 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4266 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4267 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4270 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4272 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4273 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4274 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4276 Build-system features
4277 ---------------------
4279 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4281 Add support to configure for many standard options
4283 We include actual support for:
4285 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4287 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4289 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4290 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4292 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4293 separate "make install-emacs"
4295 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4297 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4298 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4299 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4301 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4304 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4305 ========================
4307 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4309 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4310 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4312 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4313 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4314 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4315 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4316 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4317 tags from messages in a thread.
4324 indent-tabs-mode: nil