1 Notmuch 0.37 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Fix uninitialized field in message objects.
9 Improve exception handling and error propagation for message objects.
14 Add one sided lastmod ranges for sexp queries.
16 Expand macro parameters inside regex and wildcard modifiers.
18 Command Line Interface
19 ----------------------
21 `notmuch help` now works for external commands.
23 `NOTMUCH_CONFIG` is now passed to external commands and hooks.
25 Promote the development tool `nmbug` to a user facing tool
26 `notmuch-git`. See notmuch-git(1) for details.
31 The function `notmuch-mua-mail` now moves point depending on the
34 Restrict what mime types are inlined in replies and on refresh.
36 The functions in notmuch-query.el are now obsolete and may be removed
37 in a future version of Notmuch.
39 Add some controls for lazy display of message bodies (See "Dealing
40 with large messages and threads" in the notmuch-emacs documentation).
42 Allow the user to select (with '%') a different duplicate message file
45 Notmuch 0.36 (2022-04-25)
46 =========================
51 Add the `sexp` prefix to the infix (traditional) query parser. This
52 allows specific subqueries to be parsed by the sexp parser (with
53 appropropriate quoting). See `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
55 Add another heuristic to regexp fields to prevent phrase parsing of
56 bracketed sub-expressions.
58 Command Line Interface
59 ----------------------
61 Envelope from ("From ") headers are now escaped as X-Envelope-From: in
62 input to `notmuch-insert`. This prevents creating mbox files when
63 calling `notmuch-insert` from e.g. `postfix`.
65 Python (CFFI) Bindings
66 ----------------------
68 Use the `config_pairs` API in ConfigIterator. This returns all
69 matching key-value pairs, not just those that happen to be stored in
75 Reorganize documention for `notmuch-config`. Add a few links from
81 Bind the usual undo key sequences to new command
82 "notmuch-tag-undo". This allows transparent undo of tagging
88 Fix smime.4 with newer gmime. Unset `XDG_DATA_HOME` and `MAILDIR` for tests.
90 New add-on tool: notmuch-web
91 -----------------------------
93 The new devel/ tool `notmuch-web` is a very thin web client. It
94 supports a full search interface for one user: there is no facility
95 for multiple users provided today. See the notmuch-web README file
98 Be careful about running it on a network-connected system: it will
99 expose a web interface that requires no authentication but exposes
102 Notmuch 0.35 (2022-02-06)
103 =========================
108 Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
110 Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
112 Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
113 `built_with.sexp_queries`.
115 Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
117 Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
122 Improve handling of leading/trailing punctation and space for
125 Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
127 Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
128 `show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
133 Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
135 Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
138 Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
139 third party completion frameworks.
141 Make citation formating more robust against whitespace.
143 Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
145 Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
146 signed and/or encrypted messages.
148 Add notmuch-logo.svg and use it in notmuch-hello view, replacing
151 Make header line in show buffers optional.
153 Add customizable names for search buffers.
158 Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
160 Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
161 installed version of notmuch.
163 Ignore more configure options.
168 Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
171 Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
176 Add `matched` property to message objects.
178 Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
179 deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
185 Use `database.mail_root` for path completion in bash/zsh.
187 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
188 ===========================
193 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
194 xapian/ subdirectory.
196 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
197 --------------------------
199 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
200 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
202 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
203 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
205 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
208 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
209 ===========================
214 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
215 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
216 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
218 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
219 --------------------------
221 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
222 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
224 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
225 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
226 and database location options as the library does.
228 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
230 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
231 ===========================
236 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
237 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
238 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
239 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
240 status returns for the same 3 functions.
242 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
243 =========================
248 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
249 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
250 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
251 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
252 s-expression query support.
257 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
262 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
264 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
266 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
268 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
270 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
271 ===========================
276 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
278 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
279 ===========================
284 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
285 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
288 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
289 =========================
294 Correct documentation about transactions.
296 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
297 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
299 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
304 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
310 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
311 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
312 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
314 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
316 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
318 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
320 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
322 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
324 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
327 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
332 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
333 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
334 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
335 split, following an old library API change.
340 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
345 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
347 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
349 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
350 ===========================
355 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
358 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
361 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
362 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
367 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
369 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
370 ===========================
375 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
381 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
386 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
391 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
396 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
397 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
399 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
400 ===========================
405 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
406 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
407 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
409 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
410 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
411 database in a pre-new hook.
413 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
414 default worked only in "notmuch config".
419 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
420 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
422 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
423 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
424 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
426 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
427 =========================
432 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
433 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
434 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
435 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
436 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
437 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
438 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
439 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
440 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
441 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
442 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
447 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
448 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
450 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
451 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
452 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
453 - `notmuch_config_get`
455 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
456 now exposed (and generalized).
458 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
459 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
460 session has been fixed.
462 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
463 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
468 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
469 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
471 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
472 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
477 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
478 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
479 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
480 when prompting for senders.
482 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
483 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
486 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
488 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
490 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
491 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
492 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
493 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
494 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
495 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
496 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
498 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
499 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
501 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
502 you should change it to:
503 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
505 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
506 ===========================
511 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
516 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
518 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
519 ===========================
524 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
529 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
534 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
536 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
537 ===========================
542 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
543 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
545 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
546 ===========================
551 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
556 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
557 with a C++ header for some compilers.
559 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
561 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
562 =========================
567 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
568 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
569 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
571 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
573 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
575 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
577 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
580 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
582 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
583 search, show and tree mode)
585 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
588 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
591 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
592 always be newest first.
597 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
598 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
599 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
605 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
606 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
607 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
608 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
610 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
611 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
612 non-status providing versions.
614 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
615 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
617 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
618 promised in the documentation.
623 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
624 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
625 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
630 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
631 development version).
636 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
641 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
643 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
644 =========================
649 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
650 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
651 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
654 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
660 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
661 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
662 notmuch-properties(7)).
667 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
668 has protected headers (see
669 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
670 notmuch-properties(7)).
675 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
677 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
678 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
684 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
687 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
688 ===========================
693 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
695 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
700 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
702 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
703 ===========================
708 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
709 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
711 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
712 ===========================
717 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
719 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
720 =========================
725 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
726 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
729 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
730 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
731 the set of headers to be indexed.
733 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
736 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
737 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
738 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
741 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
742 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
743 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
745 Command Line Interface
746 ----------------------
748 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
751 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
753 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
754 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
755 more details about what is included there. This status includes
756 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
761 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
762 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
764 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
766 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
768 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
770 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
772 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
775 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
777 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
778 and may be removed in a future release.
780 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
786 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
788 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
789 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
794 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
795 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
796 cryptography support.
801 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
802 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
803 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
805 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
806 ===========================
808 Command line interface
809 ----------------------
811 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
812 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
814 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
815 ===========================
820 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
821 by message properties.
826 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
828 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
829 ===========================
834 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
839 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
840 now needed to build this documentation.
842 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
843 ===========================
848 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
849 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
851 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
852 =========================
859 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
860 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
861 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
862 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
863 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
866 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
868 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
869 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
870 correct encoding for such messages.
872 Command Line Interface
873 ----------------------
875 Support relative database paths
877 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
878 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
879 to $HOME of the invoking user.
884 Improve stderr handling
886 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
887 needed on e.g. macOS.
889 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
891 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
896 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
897 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
903 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
904 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
910 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
911 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
914 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
915 =========================
920 Add support for thread:{} queries
922 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
923 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
924 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
926 Command Line Interface
927 ----------------------
929 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
931 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
933 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
935 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
936 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
937 does not have to be available during message receipt.
942 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
948 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
949 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
951 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
952 ===========================
957 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
959 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
960 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
961 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
963 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
965 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
966 related abort in `notmuch show`.
968 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
969 ===========================
974 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
975 better late than never.
978 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
979 =========================
981 Command Line Interface
982 ----------------------
984 Support for re-indexing existing messages
986 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
987 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
988 change the way specific messages are indexed.
990 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
991 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
992 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
994 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
996 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
998 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
1000 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
1001 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
1002 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
1003 the setting of `new.tags`.
1005 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
1007 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
1009 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
1011 This inserts into the top level folder.
1013 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
1015 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
1017 New option --output=address for notmuch address
1019 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
1021 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
1023 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
1024 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
1025 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
1027 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
1032 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
1034 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
1035 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
1036 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
1037 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
1038 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
1039 config set index.decrypt true".
1041 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
1042 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
1043 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
1044 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
1045 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
1046 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
1047 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
1048 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
1050 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
1051 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
1052 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
1053 this feature without considering the security of your index.
1058 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
1060 Use make-process when available
1062 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
1063 notmuch command without using temporary files.
1068 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
1070 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
1071 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
1072 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
1073 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
1075 New functions to count files
1077 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
1078 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
1080 New function to remove properties
1082 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
1083 drop all properties with a common pattern:
1084 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
1086 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
1088 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
1089 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
1090 possibility of NULL was not documented.
1092 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
1094 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
1095 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
1096 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
1097 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
1098 operator may decide to change from message to message.
1105 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
1106 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
1107 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
1113 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
1115 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
1116 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
1118 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
1120 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
1122 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
1124 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
1129 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
1130 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
1132 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
1133 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
1134 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
1135 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
1136 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
1137 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
1142 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
1144 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
1145 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
1146 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
1147 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
1149 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
1150 ===========================
1155 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
1156 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
1159 Command Line Interface
1160 ----------------------
1162 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
1163 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
1166 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
1167 ===========================
1169 Command Line Interface
1170 ----------------------
1172 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
1173 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
1178 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
1181 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
1182 ===========================
1187 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1190 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1191 =========================
1196 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1198 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1200 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1202 Command Line Interface
1203 ----------------------
1205 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1207 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1212 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1214 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1215 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1218 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1223 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1225 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1226 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1228 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1230 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1231 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1234 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1236 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1238 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1240 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1241 ===========================
1243 Command Line Interface
1244 ----------------------
1246 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1251 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1253 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1254 ===========================
1259 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1261 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1262 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1265 Command Line Interface
1266 ----------------------
1268 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1270 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1272 Fix bug in dump header
1274 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1275 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1276 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1281 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1283 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1284 =========================
1289 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1291 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1294 Command Line Interface
1295 ----------------------
1297 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1299 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1300 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1301 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1303 New default output format to 3
1305 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1306 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1307 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1308 default format changes.
1313 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1315 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1316 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1317 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1318 or tree view to resume.
1320 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1321 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1322 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1325 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1326 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1330 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1331 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1332 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1333 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1334 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1338 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1339 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1340 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1341 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1342 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1343 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1347 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1348 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1350 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1352 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1353 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1354 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1355 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1356 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1357 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1358 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1359 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1362 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1364 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1365 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1366 only tagged the current thread.)
1368 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1370 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1371 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1372 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1374 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1376 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1377 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1378 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1379 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1380 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1381 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1382 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1384 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1386 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1387 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1388 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1393 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1395 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1398 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1400 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1403 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1404 ===========================
1409 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1411 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1412 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1413 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1416 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1417 ===========================
1419 Command Line Interface
1420 ----------------------
1422 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1427 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1429 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1430 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1431 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1433 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1434 ===========================
1439 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1440 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1442 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1443 ===========================
1445 Command Line Interface
1446 ----------------------
1448 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1450 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1451 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1452 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1457 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1459 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1460 ===========================
1462 Command Line Interface
1463 ----------------------
1465 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1470 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1472 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1473 ===========================
1478 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1480 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1481 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1482 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1484 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1486 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1488 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1489 ===========================
1494 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1496 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1501 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1503 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1504 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1505 the original colours.
1507 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1508 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1510 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1512 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1513 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1514 bug, and hence the test.
1516 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1517 =========================
1519 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1520 ---------------------
1522 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1524 Support for single argument date: queries
1526 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1528 Support for blocking opens
1530 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1531 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1533 Support for named queries
1535 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1536 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1537 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1542 Message property API
1544 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1545 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1546 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1547 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1549 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1551 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1556 Support for compile time options
1558 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1559 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1562 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1564 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1565 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1566 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1567 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1568 scripts to ignore it.
1573 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1575 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1576 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1577 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1579 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1580 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1581 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1582 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1583 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1584 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1585 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1587 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1588 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1591 Make internal address completion customizable
1593 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1594 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1595 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1596 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1599 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1601 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1602 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1603 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1604 completion for the current buffer.
1606 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1607 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1608 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1612 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1613 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1614 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1615 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1616 will be added instead.
1618 Face customization is easier
1620 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1621 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1622 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1623 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1625 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1630 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1635 Go bindings moved to contrib
1637 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1639 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1641 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1642 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1644 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1646 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1647 ===========================
1654 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1655 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1657 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1659 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1661 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1662 ===========================
1667 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1669 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1674 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1679 Use `env` to locate perl.
1684 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1686 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1688 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1690 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1692 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1693 =========================
1700 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1701 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1703 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1705 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1706 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1707 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1712 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1713 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1714 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1716 Command Line Interface
1717 ----------------------
1719 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1721 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1726 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1731 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1733 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1734 parts are now included in replies.
1736 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1737 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1738 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1739 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1741 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1743 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1745 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1747 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1748 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1749 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1750 forwards only the current message.
1752 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1754 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1755 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1756 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1757 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1758 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1759 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1760 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1761 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1764 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1765 longer generate empty buffers
1767 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1768 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1769 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1770 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1771 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1773 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1775 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1778 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1780 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1783 Address completion improvements
1785 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1786 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1787 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1788 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1789 interactive address completion.
1791 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1793 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1794 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1795 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1800 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1801 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1802 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1808 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1809 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1810 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1811 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1812 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1813 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1815 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1816 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1817 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1818 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1819 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1820 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1822 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1823 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1825 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1826 =========================
1831 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1834 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1836 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1837 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1838 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1840 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1841 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1843 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1844 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1845 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1847 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1849 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1850 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1851 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1852 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1853 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1854 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1859 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1860 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1863 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1864 option to configure.
1866 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1868 Command Line Interface
1869 ----------------------
1871 Database revision tracking
1873 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1874 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1875 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1876 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1878 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1880 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1881 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1882 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1883 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1884 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1885 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1886 manual page for further information.
1891 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1893 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1894 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1896 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1898 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1899 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1900 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1902 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1904 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1906 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1907 customization as well.
1909 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1911 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1913 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1915 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1917 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1918 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1919 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1920 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1922 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1924 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1925 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1926 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1927 this variable to 10000.
1932 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1933 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1935 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1937 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1938 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1939 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1940 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1941 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1942 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1943 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1944 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1945 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1948 Database revision tracking
1950 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1951 query parser and the new function
1952 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1954 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1956 Deprecated functions
1958 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1959 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1960 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1961 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1966 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1968 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1969 ===========================
1974 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1976 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1977 ===========================
1982 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1984 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1985 =========================
1987 Command-Line Interface
1988 ----------------------
1990 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1992 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1993 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1994 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1996 Path to gpg is now configurable
1998 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1999 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
2004 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
2006 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
2011 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
2016 Support messages without Message-IDs.
2021 Undeprecate single message mboxes
2023 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
2024 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
2026 New error logging facility
2028 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
2029 output formerly printed to stderr.
2031 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
2033 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
2035 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
2037 Fix for rounding of seconds
2042 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
2044 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
2045 documentation has been removed.
2047 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
2049 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
2050 some material from the relicensed wiki.
2055 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
2056 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
2057 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
2062 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
2063 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
2064 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
2065 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
2066 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
2067 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
2070 git checkout config origin/config
2072 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
2074 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
2075 =========================
2080 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
2081 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
2082 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
2083 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
2084 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
2085 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
2086 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
2088 Command-Line Interface
2089 ----------------------
2091 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
2093 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
2094 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
2095 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
2096 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
2097 script callers should still check the return value.
2099 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
2101 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
2102 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
2103 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
2104 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
2105 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
2106 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
2107 and returning success even if indexing fails).
2109 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
2111 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
2112 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
2113 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
2115 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
2117 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
2118 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
2119 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
2120 currently unmaintained.
2122 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
2124 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
2125 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
2126 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
2127 have at least `N` files associated with them.
2129 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
2131 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
2132 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
2133 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
2134 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
2135 count of duplicate addresses.
2140 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
2142 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
2143 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
2144 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
2147 Improved handling of the unread tag
2149 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
2150 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
2151 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
2152 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
2153 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
2154 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
2155 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
2157 Expanded default saved search settings
2159 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
2160 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
2162 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
2164 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
2165 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
2166 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
2168 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
2170 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
2171 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
2172 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
2173 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
2174 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
2175 the variable for details.
2180 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
2182 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2183 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2184 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2185 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2187 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2189 Previously, library users were required to call
2190 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2191 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2192 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2193 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2194 too out of date for that API.
2196 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2198 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2199 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2200 atomic section will be aborted.
2202 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2203 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2205 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2207 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2208 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2209 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2210 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2211 messages into the same thread.
2216 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2217 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2218 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2219 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2220 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2221 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2226 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2227 from the config file. Use something like:
2231 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2232 "footer": "</body></html>",
2241 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2246 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2247 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2248 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2250 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2251 ===========================
2256 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2258 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2260 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2262 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2263 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2265 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2267 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2270 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2271 ===========================
2273 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2278 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2280 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2282 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2284 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2286 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2292 Use --quick when starting emacs
2294 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2296 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2298 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2300 Command-Line Interface
2301 ----------------------
2303 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2304 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2309 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2311 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2312 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2314 Fix for phrase indexing
2316 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2317 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2318 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2323 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2325 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2326 unintentionally removed.
2328 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2329 =========================
2334 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2335 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2336 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2337 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2338 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2339 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2340 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2341 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2342 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2348 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2350 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2351 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2352 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2353 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2354 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2355 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2356 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2357 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2359 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2361 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2362 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2363 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2364 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2367 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2369 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2370 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2371 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2372 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2373 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2374 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2375 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2380 Notmuch database upgrade
2382 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2383 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2384 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2385 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2386 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2387 released version of Notmuch before now.
2389 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2391 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2392 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2393 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2394 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2396 Message header parsing changes
2398 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2399 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2400 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2401 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2402 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2403 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2405 Command-Line Interface
2406 ----------------------
2408 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2410 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2412 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2414 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2416 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2418 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2419 user does not want it.
2421 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2423 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2424 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2425 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2426 support formatted output.
2428 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2430 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2431 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2432 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2440 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2441 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2442 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2443 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2444 `~/.emacs` with these.
2446 Changed format for saved searches
2448 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2449 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2450 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2451 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2454 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2455 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2456 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2457 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2459 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2460 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2461 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2463 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2464 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2465 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2466 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2467 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2469 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2471 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2472 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2473 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2475 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2477 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2478 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2479 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2480 message had been unread).
2482 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2483 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2484 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2485 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2487 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2488 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2489 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2491 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2492 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2493 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2494 to tags already present.
2498 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2499 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2500 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2501 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2502 these differ from each other.
2503 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2505 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2507 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2508 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2509 for these Emacs versions.
2511 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2513 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2514 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2516 Bug fixes for sender identities
2518 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2519 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2520 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2522 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2524 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2525 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2526 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2527 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2529 Reply pushes mark before signature
2531 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2532 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2533 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2535 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2537 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2538 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2544 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2545 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2547 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2548 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2549 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2550 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2552 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2553 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2554 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2555 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2556 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2558 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2560 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2561 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2563 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2564 =========================
2566 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2567 ---------------------------------------
2569 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2570 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2571 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2572 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2573 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2574 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2575 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2579 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2580 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2582 Command-Line Interface
2583 ----------------------
2585 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2587 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2588 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2589 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2590 print for each message.
2592 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2593 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2594 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2595 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2597 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2599 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2600 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2601 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2603 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2605 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2606 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2607 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2608 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2610 `notmuch compact` command
2612 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2613 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2614 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2615 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2616 move the compacted database into place.
2621 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2623 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2624 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2625 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2626 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2627 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2628 and multiple threads.
2630 Using `notmuch-tree`
2632 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2634 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2635 search, show and tree mode itself)
2637 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2640 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2641 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2643 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2645 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2646 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2647 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2648 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2649 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2650 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2651 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2653 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2655 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2656 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2657 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2658 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2659 thread when the search was performed.
2661 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2663 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2664 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2665 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2667 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2669 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2670 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2673 Built-in help improvements
2675 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2676 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2677 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2679 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2681 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2682 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2683 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2685 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2687 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2688 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2690 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2692 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2693 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2694 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2695 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2697 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2699 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2700 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2701 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2702 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2704 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2706 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2707 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2708 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2710 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2712 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2713 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2714 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2716 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2718 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2719 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2720 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2721 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2722 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2724 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2726 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2727 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2728 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2729 the body part of the message.
2734 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2735 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2736 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2738 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2739 =========================
2741 Command-Line Interface
2742 ----------------------
2744 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2746 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2747 folder and notmuch index.
2749 `notmuch count --batch` option
2751 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2752 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2754 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2756 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2757 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2758 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2761 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2763 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2764 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2765 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2766 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2767 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2770 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2772 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2773 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2775 Top level option to specify configuration file
2777 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2778 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2780 Bash command-line completion
2782 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2783 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2784 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2785 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2786 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2787 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2788 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2789 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2790 bash-completion package.
2792 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2797 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2799 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2800 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2801 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2802 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2803 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2804 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2805 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2806 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2808 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2810 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2811 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2812 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2814 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2816 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2817 previous thread in the search results.
2819 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2821 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2822 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2824 Faster search and show
2826 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2827 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2828 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2829 threads should show faster.
2833 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2834 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2835 in question was now removed from this release.
2840 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2841 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2846 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2848 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2849 ===========================
2854 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2856 Internal test framework changes
2857 -------------------------------
2859 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2860 being unimplemented.
2862 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2863 ===========================
2865 Internal test framework changes
2866 -------------------------------
2868 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2869 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2871 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2872 =========================
2877 Date range search support
2879 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2880 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2881 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2882 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2883 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2886 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2888 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2889 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2890 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2891 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2892 but may be removed in a future release.
2894 Command-Line Interface
2895 ----------------------
2897 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2899 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2900 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2902 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2904 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2905 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2906 officially deprecated.
2908 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2910 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2911 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2912 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2914 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2916 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2917 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2920 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2921 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2922 dump/restore format.
2924 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2926 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2927 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2928 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2930 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2932 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2933 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2934 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2936 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2938 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2939 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2940 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2941 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2946 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2948 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2949 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2950 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2951 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2953 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2955 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2956 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2957 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2958 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2959 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2960 the behavior of this, see
2961 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2962 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2964 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2965 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2966 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2968 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2970 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2971 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2974 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2976 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2977 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2978 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2979 simply displayed in place of the message.
2981 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2983 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2984 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2986 Improved text/calendar content handling
2988 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2989 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2990 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2991 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2993 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2995 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2996 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2997 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2998 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
3000 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
3002 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
3003 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
3004 for HTML email containing images.
3006 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
3008 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
3010 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
3012 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
3015 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
3017 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
3018 the point where it was.
3020 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
3022 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
3023 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
3024 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
3025 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
3026 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
3028 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
3030 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
3031 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
3032 thread instead of the message id.
3034 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
3035 -----------------------------
3037 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
3038 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
3039 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
3040 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
3041 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
3042 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
3043 further details and installation.
3048 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
3050 Internal test framework changes
3051 -------------------------------
3053 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
3055 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
3056 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
3057 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
3058 can result in buggy behavior.
3060 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
3061 =========================
3066 Maildir tag synchronization
3068 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
3069 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
3070 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
3071 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
3072 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
3073 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
3076 Command-Line Interface
3077 ----------------------
3079 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
3080 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
3081 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
3082 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
3083 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
3089 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
3091 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
3093 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
3094 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
3095 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
3097 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
3099 It is now possible to embed newlines in
3100 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
3101 span multiple lines.
3103 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
3105 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
3106 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
3107 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
3108 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
3109 inside the result or message.
3111 Search now uses the JSON format internally
3113 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
3114 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
3116 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
3117 user-specified formatting
3119 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
3120 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
3121 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
3122 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
3123 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
3125 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
3126 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
3128 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
3129 ===========================
3134 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
3135 compilation error for this contrib package.
3137 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
3138 ===========================
3143 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
3145 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
3146 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
3147 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
3148 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
3150 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
3151 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
3154 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
3155 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
3156 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
3157 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
3160 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
3162 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
3165 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
3166 =========================
3168 Command-Line Interface
3169 ----------------------
3173 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
3174 for a reply message and full information about the original message
3175 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
3176 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
3178 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
3179 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
3180 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
3181 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3185 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3186 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3188 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3189 tag in your query, for example:
3191 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3193 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3194 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3196 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3197 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3199 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3201 Raw show format changes
3203 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3204 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3205 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3206 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3207 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3208 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3209 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3210 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3212 Listing configuration items
3214 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3220 Changes to tagging interface
3222 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3223 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3224 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3225 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3226 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3227 for more information.
3229 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3230 may need to update in custom configurations.
3232 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3234 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3235 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3236 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3237 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3240 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3241 -----------------------------
3243 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3244 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3245 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3246 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3247 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3248 contrib/ from now on.
3253 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3254 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3256 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3257 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3259 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3260 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3261 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3263 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3264 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3266 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3267 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3268 returning the new database object or directory object.
3275 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3276 compatible with go 1.
3278 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3279 =========================
3281 Command-Line Interface
3282 ----------------------
3286 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3287 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3288 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3289 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3291 Mail store folder/file ignore
3293 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3294 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3295 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3297 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3298 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3300 Unified help and manual pages
3302 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3303 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3306 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3308 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3309 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3317 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3318 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3319 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3320 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3322 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3324 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3325 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3327 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3330 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3331 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3332 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3334 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3336 should be changed to:
3338 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3340 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3342 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3343 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3345 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3347 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3348 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3349 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3350 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3351 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3352 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3356 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3357 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3358 of Mailing List Archives.
3360 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3362 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3363 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3366 Show view archiving key binding changes
3368 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3369 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3370 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3371 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3372 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3375 Support text/calendar MIME type
3377 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3380 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3382 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3383 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3384 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3385 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3387 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3389 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3390 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3391 messages blue by default in the search view.
3395 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3396 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3403 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3406 Python bindings changes
3407 -----------------------
3409 Python 3.2 compatibility
3411 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3413 Added missing unicode conversions
3415 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3416 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3417 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3422 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3424 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3425 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3426 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3427 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3428 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3430 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3431 ===========================
3436 Fix error handling in python bindings
3438 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3439 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3440 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3441 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3443 Quote MML tags in replies
3445 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3446 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3447 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3448 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3449 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3450 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3451 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3452 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3454 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3455 =========================
3457 Command-Line Interface
3458 ----------------------
3462 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3463 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3464 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3465 importing new messages into the database.
3467 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3469 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3470 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3471 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3476 Automatic tag query optimization
3478 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3479 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3480 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3482 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3484 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3485 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3486 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3491 Reduction of memory leaks
3493 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3494 and fixed in this release.
3501 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3502 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3503 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3506 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3508 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3509 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3510 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3513 Improvements in saved search management
3515 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3516 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3517 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3519 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3521 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3522 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3523 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3525 New face for crypto parts headers
3527 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3528 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3529 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3532 Use space as default thousands separator
3534 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3535 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3536 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3538 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3539 buttonized id: links
3541 New function notmuch-show-advance
3543 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3544 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3545 be bound to SPC with:
3547 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3549 Various performance improvements
3554 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3555 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3558 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3559 ===========================
3564 Fix crash in python bindings
3566 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3567 for some, but not all users.
3569 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3570 ===========================
3575 Fix `--help` argument
3577 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3578 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3579 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3581 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3582 =========================
3584 New build and testing features
3585 ------------------------------
3587 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3588 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3589 prerequisites is improved.
3591 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3593 New command-line features
3594 -------------------------
3596 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3598 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3599 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3602 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3604 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3605 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3606 favour of using stdout.
3608 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3610 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3611 limit the number of results shown.
3613 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3615 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3616 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3619 New emacs UI features
3620 ---------------------
3622 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3624 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3625 starting with "tag:".
3627 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3629 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3630 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3632 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3634 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3636 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3638 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3639 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3644 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3646 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3648 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3649 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3650 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3651 requires a database rebuild:
3653 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3654 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3656 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3658 New collection of add-on tools
3659 ------------------------------
3661 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3662 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3663 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3666 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3668 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3669 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3670 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3672 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3673 ========================
3675 New, general features
3676 ---------------------
3678 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3680 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3681 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3682 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3683 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3684 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3691 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3692 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3694 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3698 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3699 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3700 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3703 Python bindings changes
3704 -----------------------
3706 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3708 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3709 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3710 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3711 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3712 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3713 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3715 Ruby bindings changes
3716 ---------------------
3718 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3719 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3720 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3721 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3726 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3728 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3729 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3731 Reply formatting cleanup
3732 ------------------------
3734 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3735 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3737 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3738 ========================
3740 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3742 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3743 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3744 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3745 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3748 Improved Build system portability
3750 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3751 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3752 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3754 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3756 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3758 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3760 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3761 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3762 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3764 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3765 ========================
3767 Vim interface improvements
3768 --------------------------
3770 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3772 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3773 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3774 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3775 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3776 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3778 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3780 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3781 * fix compose temp file name
3783 Python Bindings changes
3784 -----------------------
3786 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3788 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3789 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3791 Build-System improvements
3792 -------------------------
3794 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3796 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3799 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3800 ==========================
3805 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3807 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3808 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3810 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3811 =======================
3813 New, general features
3814 ---------------------
3816 Folder-based searching
3818 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3819 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3820 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3824 For example, one might use things such as:
3830 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3831 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3833 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3834 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3835 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3836 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3838 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3839 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3840 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3843 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3844 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3846 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3848 Support for PGP/MIME
3850 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3851 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3852 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3854 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3856 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3857 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3859 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3860 notmuch will receive these tags.
3862 New command-line features
3863 -------------------------
3865 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3867 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3868 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3870 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3872 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3873 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3874 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3876 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3878 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3879 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3880 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3881 which parts a signature part applies).
3883 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3885 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3886 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3887 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3888 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3889 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3892 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3894 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3895 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3896 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3897 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3898 by translating it internally to the new call.
3900 Performance improvements
3901 ------------------------
3903 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3905 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3906 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3907 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3909 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3910 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3912 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3914 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3915 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3916 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3918 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3919 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3920 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3921 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3923 Faster initial indexing
3925 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3926 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3927 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3929 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3931 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3932 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3933 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3934 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3936 New emacs-interface features
3937 ----------------------------
3939 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3941 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3942 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3943 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3944 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3945 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3946 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3948 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3950 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3951 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3952 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3953 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3955 User-selectable From address
3957 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3958 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3959 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3960 will prompt for the from address to use.
3962 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3963 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3964 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3966 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3967 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3968 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3971 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3973 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3974 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3976 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3978 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3980 ----- Original Message -----
3982 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3983 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3984 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3985 citations work much like conventional citations.
3987 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3989 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3990 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3991 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3992 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3993 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3995 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3996 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3998 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
4000 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
4001 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
4002 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
4004 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
4006 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
4007 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
4008 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
4009 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
4010 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
4012 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
4014 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
4017 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
4019 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
4021 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
4023 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
4026 Vim interface improvements
4027 --------------------------
4029 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
4031 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
4032 * Implementing archive in show view
4033 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
4034 * Add delete commands
4037 Bindings improvements
4038 ---------------------
4040 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
4042 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
4043 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
4045 Python bindings have been updated and extended
4047 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
4051 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
4052 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
4053 `list(Messages)` works now
4054 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
4056 These allow, for example:
4058 if msg1 == msg2: ...
4060 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
4062 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
4068 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
4070 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
4073 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
4075 New build-system features
4076 -------------------------
4078 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
4080 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
4081 the configure script from some other directory:
4088 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
4090 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
4091 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
4092 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
4093 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
4094 manual invocation of configure.
4096 New test-suite feature
4097 ----------------------
4099 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
4101 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
4102 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
4103 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
4104 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
4105 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
4108 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
4110 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
4111 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
4112 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
4113 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
4114 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
4115 are updated to take advantage of this.
4117 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
4119 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
4120 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
4121 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
4122 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
4128 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
4130 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
4131 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
4132 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
4134 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
4136 This fixed a bug where a search for:
4138 to:user@elsewhere.com
4140 would incorrectly match a message sent:
4142 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
4144 Fix --output=json when search has no results
4146 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
4147 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
4148 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
4151 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
4152 from the Received headers in some cases
4154 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
4155 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
4157 Cleaned up several memory leaks
4159 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
4161 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
4163 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
4164 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
4165 interface and were never intended to be exported.
4167 Emacs-interface bug fixes
4168 -------------------------
4170 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
4172 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
4173 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
4174 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
4176 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
4178 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
4179 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
4180 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4183 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4185 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4186 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4187 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4188 fixed to avoid this bug.
4190 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4192 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4193 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4195 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4196 ========================
4198 New, general features
4199 ---------------------
4201 Maildir-flag synchronization
4203 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4204 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4213 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4215 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4216 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4217 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4218 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4220 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4221 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4222 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4223 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4226 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4228 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4229 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4230 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4232 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4233 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4235 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4236 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4238 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4239 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4240 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4242 New library features
4243 --------------------
4245 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4247 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4248 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4249 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4250 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4252 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4253 message with the new function:
4255 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4257 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4258 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4259 over all available filenames for a given message.
4261 New command-line features
4262 -------------------------
4264 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4266 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4267 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4268 access to the mail store itself.
4270 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4271 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4272 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4273 name of a script containing:
4275 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4277 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4278 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4284 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4286 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4288 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4290 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4291 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4292 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4293 now produces nothing).
4295 Emacs interface improvements
4296 ----------------------------
4298 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4300 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4302 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4304 Display current thread subject in a header line
4306 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4308 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4310 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4311 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4312 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4313 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4314 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4315 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4316 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4318 Vim interface improvements
4319 --------------------------
4321 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4323 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4324 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4330 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4332 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4333 ========================
4335 New command-line features
4336 -------------------------
4338 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4340 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4341 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4342 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4344 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4345 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4346 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4347 scripts. For example:
4349 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4350 <operations-on> "$file"
4353 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4355 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4356 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4357 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4358 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4359 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4360 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4362 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4364 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4365 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4366 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4367 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4369 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4371 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4372 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4373 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4374 default rather than Bcc.
4376 New library features
4377 --------------------
4379 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4381 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4382 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4387 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4389 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4390 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4391 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4392 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4393 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4394 notmuch customize interface.
4396 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4398 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4399 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4400 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4401 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4403 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4405 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4406 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4407 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4408 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4410 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4412 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4413 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4414 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4415 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4416 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4417 notmuch customize interface.
4419 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4421 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4422 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4423 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4424 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4425 notmuch customize interface.
4427 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4429 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4430 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4431 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4432 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4435 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4437 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4438 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4439 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4442 New build-system features
4443 -------------------------
4445 Various portability fixes have been applied
4447 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4448 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4449 more portable than ever before.
4451 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4453 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4454 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4455 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4457 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4458 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4459 automatically run ldconfig.
4461 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4462 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4463 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4465 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4466 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4467 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4468 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4470 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4472 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4473 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4474 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4475 used in the resulting Makefile.
4477 New test-suite features
4478 -----------------------
4480 New modularization of test suite
4482 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4483 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4484 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4485 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4486 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4487 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4488 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4489 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4491 New testing of emacs interface
4493 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4494 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4495 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4496 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4497 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4498 database via the FCC setting.
4503 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4505 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4506 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4507 persistent error of the form:
4509 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4511 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4512 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4514 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4516 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4517 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4518 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4520 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4522 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4523 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4524 parsing the notmuch results).
4526 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4528 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4531 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4532 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4533 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4538 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4540 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4541 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4542 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4543 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4544 the emacs interface.
4546 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4548 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4549 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4550 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4552 Python-binding fixes
4553 --------------------
4555 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4557 Debian-specific fixes
4558 ---------------------
4560 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4562 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4563 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4564 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4567 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4568 ==========================
4573 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4575 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4576 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4577 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4578 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4580 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4582 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4583 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4584 want notmuch to crash.
4589 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4591 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4592 directory does not exist
4597 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4599 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4600 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4602 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4603 ========================
4605 New command-line features
4606 -------------------------
4608 User-configurable tags for new messages
4610 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4611 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4612 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4613 to specify this value.
4615 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4617 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4618 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4619 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4621 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4623 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4624 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4626 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4628 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4629 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4630 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4631 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4632 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4635 Indication of author names that match a search
4637 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4638 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4639 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4640 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4641 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4642 messages in the thread are listed first.
4644 New: Python bindings
4645 --------------------
4647 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4648 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4649 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4650 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4652 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4653 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4654 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4657 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4658 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4659 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4661 Emacs interface improvements
4662 ----------------------------
4664 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4666 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4667 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4668 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4669 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4670 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4671 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4672 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4673 but without any of the disadvantages).
4675 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4676 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4677 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4680 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4681 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4682 instead running something like:
4684 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4686 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4687 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4688 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4691 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4693 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4694 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4695 tweaked by the user.
4697 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4698 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4699 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4702 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4703 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4704 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4707 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4709 This support currently relies on an external program,
4710 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4711 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4712 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4713 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4714 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4717 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4718 notmuch) is available via:
4720 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4722 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4723 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4724 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4726 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4728 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4729 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4730 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4731 making this automatic in a future release.
4733 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4735 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4736 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4737 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4738 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4739 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4740 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4743 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4745 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4746 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4747 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4749 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4751 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4752 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4753 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4755 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4756 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4757 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4758 other representation.
4760 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4761 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4764 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4766 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4767 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4768 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4770 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4771 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4772 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4774 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4776 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4777 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4778 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4779 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4780 to display the search result.
4782 More flexible handling of header visibility
4784 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4785 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4786 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4787 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4788 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4789 with the 'h' keybinding.
4791 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4792 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4793 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4795 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4797 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4799 Customizable formatting of search results
4801 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4802 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4803 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4805 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4807 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4809 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4814 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4816 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4817 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4818 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4819 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4825 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4827 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4828 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4830 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4832 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4833 accept are now all accepted.
4838 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4840 Better display of output from failed tests
4842 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4843 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4845 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4846 ========================
4848 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4849 detailed release notes this time!
4851 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4852 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4854 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4855 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4856 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4857 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4864 Better guessing of From: header
4866 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4867 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4868 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4869 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4870 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4873 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4875 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4876 guaranteed to match all messages.
4878 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4880 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4881 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4882 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4883 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4884 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4887 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4890 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4891 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4892 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4893 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4898 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4900 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4901 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4902 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4903 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4905 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4907 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4909 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4910 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4911 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4913 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4915 Previously, the user might see:
4917 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4921 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4923 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4924 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4925 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4926 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4928 Emacs client features
4929 ---------------------
4931 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4933 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4934 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4935 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4936 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4937 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4939 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4942 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4943 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4944 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4945 search with the '*' binding.
4947 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4949 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4950 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4953 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4955 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4956 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4957 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4959 Build-system features
4960 ---------------------
4962 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4964 Add support to configure for many standard options
4966 We include actual support for:
4968 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4970 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4972 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4973 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4975 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4976 separate "make install-emacs"
4978 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4980 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4981 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4982 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4984 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4987 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4988 ========================
4990 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4992 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4993 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4995 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4996 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4997 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4998 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4999 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
5000 tags from messages in a thread.
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