1 Notmuch 0.29 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
13 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
14 and may be removed in a future release.
16 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
17 ===========================
19 Command line interface
20 ----------------------
22 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
23 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
25 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
26 ===========================
31 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
32 by message properties.
37 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
39 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
40 ===========================
45 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
50 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
51 now needed to build this documentation.
53 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
54 ===========================
59 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
60 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
62 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
63 =========================
70 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
71 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
72 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
73 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
74 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
77 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
79 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
80 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
81 correct encoding for such messages.
83 Command Line Interface
84 ----------------------
86 Support relative database paths
88 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
89 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
90 to $HOME of the invoking user.
95 Improve stderr handling
97 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
100 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
102 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
107 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
108 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
114 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
115 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
121 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
122 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
125 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
126 =========================
131 Add support for thread:{} queries
133 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
134 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
135 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
137 Command Line Interface
138 ----------------------
140 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
142 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
144 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
146 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
147 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
148 does not have to be available during message receipt.
153 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
159 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
160 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
162 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
163 ===========================
168 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
170 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
171 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
172 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
174 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
176 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
177 related abort in `notmuch show`.
179 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
180 ===========================
185 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
186 better late than never.
189 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
190 =========================
192 Command Line Interface
193 ----------------------
195 Support for re-indexing existing messages
197 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
198 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
199 change the way specific messages are indexed.
201 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
202 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
203 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
205 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
207 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
209 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
211 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
212 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
213 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
214 the setting of `new.tags`.
216 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
218 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
220 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
222 This inserts into the top level folder.
224 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
226 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
228 New option --output=address for notmuch address
230 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
232 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
234 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
235 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
236 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
238 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
243 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
245 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
246 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
247 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
248 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
249 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
250 config set index.decrypt true".
252 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
253 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
254 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
255 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
256 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
257 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
258 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
259 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
261 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
262 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
263 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
264 this feature without considering the security of your index.
269 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
271 Use make-process when available
273 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
274 notmuch command without using temporary files.
279 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
281 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
282 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
283 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
284 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
286 New functions to count files
288 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
289 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
291 New function to remove properties
293 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
294 drop all properties with a common pattern:
295 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
297 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
299 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
300 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
301 possibility of NULL was not documented.
303 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
305 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
306 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
307 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
308 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
309 operator may decide to change from message to message.
316 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
317 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
318 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
324 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
326 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
327 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
329 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
331 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
333 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
335 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
340 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
341 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
343 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
344 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
345 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
346 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
347 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
348 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
353 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
355 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
356 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
357 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
358 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
360 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
361 ===========================
366 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
367 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
370 Command Line Interface
371 ----------------------
373 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
374 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
377 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
378 ===========================
380 Command Line Interface
381 ----------------------
383 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
384 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
389 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
392 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
393 ===========================
398 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
401 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
402 =========================
407 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
409 Skip HTML tags when indexing
411 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
413 Command Line Interface
414 ----------------------
416 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
418 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
423 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
425 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
426 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
429 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
434 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
436 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
437 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
439 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
441 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
442 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
445 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
447 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
449 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
451 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
452 ===========================
454 Command Line Interface
455 ----------------------
457 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
462 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
464 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
465 ===========================
470 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
472 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
473 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
476 Command Line Interface
477 ----------------------
479 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
481 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
483 Fix bug in dump header
485 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
486 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
487 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
492 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
494 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
495 =========================
500 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
502 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
505 Command Line Interface
506 ----------------------
508 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
510 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
511 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
512 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
514 New default output format to 3
516 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
517 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
518 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
519 default format changes.
524 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
526 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
527 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
528 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
529 or tree view to resume.
531 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
532 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
533 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
536 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
537 they were when you postponed in the final message.
541 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
542 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
543 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
544 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
545 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
549 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
550 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
551 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
552 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
553 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
554 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
558 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
559 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
561 Stop display of `application/*` parts
563 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
564 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
565 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
566 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
567 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
568 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
569 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
570 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
573 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
575 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
576 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
577 only tagged the current thread.)
579 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
581 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
582 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
583 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
585 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
587 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
588 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
589 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
590 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
591 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
592 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
593 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
595 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
597 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
598 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
599 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
604 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
606 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
609 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
611 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
614 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
615 ===========================
620 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
622 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
623 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
624 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
627 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
628 ===========================
630 Command Line Interface
631 ----------------------
633 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
638 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
640 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
641 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
642 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
644 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
645 ===========================
650 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
651 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
653 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
654 ===========================
656 Command Line Interface
657 ----------------------
659 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
661 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
662 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
663 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
668 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
670 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
671 ===========================
673 Command Line Interface
674 ----------------------
676 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
681 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
683 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
684 ===========================
689 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
691 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
692 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
693 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
695 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
697 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
699 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
700 ===========================
705 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
707 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
712 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
714 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
715 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
716 the original colours.
718 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
719 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
721 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
723 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
724 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
725 bug, and hence the test.
727 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
728 =========================
730 General (Xapian 1.4+)
731 ---------------------
733 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
735 Support for single argument date: queries
737 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
739 Support for blocking opens
741 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
742 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
744 Support for named queries
746 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
747 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
748 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
755 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
756 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
757 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
758 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
760 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
762 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
767 Support for compile time options
769 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
770 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
773 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
775 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
776 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
777 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
778 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
779 scripts to ignore it.
784 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
786 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
787 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
788 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
790 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
791 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
792 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
793 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
794 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
795 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
796 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
798 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
799 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
802 Make internal address completion customizable
804 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
805 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
806 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
807 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
810 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
812 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
813 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
814 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
815 completion for the current buffer.
817 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
818 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
819 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
823 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
824 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
825 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
826 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
827 will be added instead.
829 Face customization is easier
831 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
832 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
833 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
834 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
836 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
841 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
846 Go bindings moved to contrib
848 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
850 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
852 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
853 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
855 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
857 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
858 ===========================
865 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
866 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
868 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
870 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
872 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
873 ===========================
878 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
880 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
885 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
890 Use `env` to locate perl.
895 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
897 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
899 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
901 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
903 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
904 =========================
911 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
912 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
914 Limited support for S/MIME messages
916 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
917 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
918 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
923 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
924 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
925 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
927 Command Line Interface
928 ----------------------
930 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
932 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
937 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
942 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
944 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
945 parts are now included in replies.
947 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
948 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
949 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
950 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
952 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
954 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
956 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
958 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
959 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
960 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
961 forwards only the current message.
963 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
965 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
966 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
967 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
968 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
969 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
970 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
971 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
972 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
975 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
976 longer generate empty buffers
978 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
979 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
980 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
981 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
982 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
984 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
986 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
989 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
991 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
994 Address completion improvements
996 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
997 you previously configured one, customize the variable
998 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
999 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1000 interactive address completion.
1002 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1004 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1005 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1006 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1011 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1012 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1013 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1019 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1020 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1021 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1022 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1023 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1024 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1026 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1027 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1028 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1029 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1030 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1031 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1033 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1034 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1036 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1037 =========================
1042 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1045 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1047 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1048 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1049 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1051 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1052 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1054 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1055 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1056 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1058 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1060 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1061 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1062 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1063 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1064 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1065 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1070 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1071 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1074 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1075 option to configure.
1077 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1079 Command Line Interface
1080 ----------------------
1082 Database revision tracking
1084 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1085 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1086 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1087 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1089 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1091 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1092 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1093 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1094 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1095 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1096 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1097 manual page for further information.
1102 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1104 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1105 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1107 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1109 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1110 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1111 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1113 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1115 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1117 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1118 customization as well.
1120 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1122 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1124 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1126 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1128 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1129 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1130 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1131 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1133 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1135 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1136 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1137 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1138 this variable to 10000.
1143 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1144 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1146 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1148 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1149 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1150 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1151 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1152 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1153 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1154 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1155 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1156 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1159 Database revision tracking
1161 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1162 query parser and the new function
1163 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1165 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1167 Deprecated functions
1169 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1170 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1171 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1172 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1177 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1179 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1180 ===========================
1185 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1187 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1188 ===========================
1193 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1195 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1196 =========================
1198 Command-Line Interface
1199 ----------------------
1201 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1203 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1204 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1205 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1207 Path to gpg is now configurable
1209 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1210 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1215 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1217 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1222 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1227 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1232 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1234 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1235 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1237 New error logging facility
1239 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1240 output formerly printed to stderr.
1242 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1244 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1246 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1248 Fix for rounding of seconds
1253 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1255 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1256 documentation has been removed.
1258 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1260 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1261 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1266 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1267 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1268 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1273 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1274 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1275 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1276 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1277 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1278 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1281 git checkout config origin/config
1283 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1285 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1286 =========================
1291 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1292 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1293 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1294 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1295 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1296 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1297 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1299 Command-Line Interface
1300 ----------------------
1302 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1304 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1305 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1306 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1307 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1308 script callers should still check the return value.
1310 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1312 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1313 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1314 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1315 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1316 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1317 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1318 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1320 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1322 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1323 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1324 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1326 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1328 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1329 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1330 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1331 currently unmaintained.
1333 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1335 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1336 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1337 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1338 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1340 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1342 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1343 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1344 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1345 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1346 count of duplicate addresses.
1351 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1353 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1354 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1355 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1358 Improved handling of the unread tag
1360 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1361 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1362 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1363 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1364 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1365 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1366 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1368 Expanded default saved search settings
1370 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1371 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1373 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1375 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1376 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1377 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1379 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1381 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1382 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1383 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1384 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1385 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1386 the variable for details.
1391 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1393 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1394 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1395 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1396 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1398 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1400 Previously, library users were required to call
1401 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1402 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1403 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1404 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1405 too out of date for that API.
1407 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1409 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1410 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1411 atomic section will be aborted.
1413 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1414 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1416 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1418 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1419 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1420 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1421 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1422 messages into the same thread.
1427 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1428 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1429 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1430 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1431 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1432 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1437 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1438 from the config file. Use something like:
1442 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1443 "footer": "</body></html>",
1452 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1457 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1458 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1459 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1461 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1462 ===========================
1467 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1469 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1471 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1473 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1474 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1476 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1478 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1481 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1482 ===========================
1484 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1489 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1491 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1493 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1495 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1497 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1503 Use --quick when starting emacs
1505 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1507 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1509 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1511 Command-Line Interface
1512 ----------------------
1514 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1515 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1520 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1522 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1523 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1525 Fix for phrase indexing
1527 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1528 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1529 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1534 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1536 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1537 unintentionally removed.
1539 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1540 =========================
1545 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1546 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1547 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1548 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1549 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1550 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1551 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1552 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1553 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1559 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1561 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1562 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1563 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1564 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1565 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1566 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1567 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1568 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1570 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1572 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1573 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1574 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1575 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1578 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1580 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1581 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1582 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1583 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1584 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1585 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1586 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1591 Notmuch database upgrade
1593 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1594 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1595 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1596 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1597 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1598 released version of Notmuch before now.
1600 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1602 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1603 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1604 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1605 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1607 Message header parsing changes
1609 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1610 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1611 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1612 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1613 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1614 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1616 Command-Line Interface
1617 ----------------------
1619 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1621 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1623 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1625 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1627 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1629 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1630 user does not want it.
1632 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1634 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1635 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1636 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1637 support formatted output.
1639 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1641 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1642 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1643 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1651 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1652 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1653 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1654 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1655 `~/.emacs` with these.
1657 Changed format for saved searches
1659 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1660 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1661 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1662 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1665 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1666 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1667 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1668 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1670 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1671 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1672 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1674 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1675 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1676 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1677 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1678 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1680 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1682 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1683 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1684 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1686 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1688 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1689 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1690 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1691 message had been unread).
1693 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1694 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1695 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1696 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1698 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1699 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1700 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1702 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1703 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1704 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1705 to tags already present.
1709 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1710 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1711 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1712 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1713 these differ from each other.
1714 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1716 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1718 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1719 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1720 for these Emacs versions.
1722 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1724 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1725 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1727 Bug fixes for sender identities
1729 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1730 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1731 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1733 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1735 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1736 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1737 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1738 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1740 Reply pushes mark before signature
1742 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1743 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1744 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1746 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1748 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1749 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1755 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1756 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1758 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1759 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1760 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1761 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1763 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1764 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1765 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1766 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1767 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1769 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1771 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1772 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1774 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1775 =========================
1777 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1778 ---------------------------------------
1780 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1781 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1782 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1783 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1784 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1785 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1786 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1790 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1791 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1793 Command-Line Interface
1794 ----------------------
1796 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1798 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1799 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1800 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1801 print for each message.
1803 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1804 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1805 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1806 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1808 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1810 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1811 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1812 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1814 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1816 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1817 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1818 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1819 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1821 `notmuch compact` command
1823 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1824 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1825 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1826 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1827 move the compacted database into place.
1832 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1834 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1835 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1836 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1837 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1838 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1839 and multiple threads.
1841 Using `notmuch-tree`
1843 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1845 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1846 search, show and tree mode itself)
1848 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1851 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1852 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1854 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1856 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1857 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1858 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1859 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1860 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1861 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1862 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1864 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1866 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1867 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1868 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1869 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1870 thread when the search was performed.
1872 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1874 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1875 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1876 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1878 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1880 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1881 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1884 Built-in help improvements
1886 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1887 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1888 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1890 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1892 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1893 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1894 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1896 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1898 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1899 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1901 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1903 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1904 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1905 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1906 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1908 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1910 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1911 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1912 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1913 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1915 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1917 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1918 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1919 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1921 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1923 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1924 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1925 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1927 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1929 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1930 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1931 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1932 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1933 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1935 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1937 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1938 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1939 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1940 the body part of the message.
1945 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1946 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1947 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1949 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1950 =========================
1952 Command-Line Interface
1953 ----------------------
1955 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1957 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1958 folder and notmuch index.
1960 `notmuch count --batch` option
1962 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1963 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1965 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1967 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1968 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1969 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1972 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1974 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1975 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1976 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1977 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1978 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1981 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1983 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1984 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1986 Top level option to specify configuration file
1988 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1989 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1991 Bash command-line completion
1993 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1994 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1995 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1996 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1997 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1998 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1999 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2000 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2001 bash-completion package.
2003 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2008 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2010 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2011 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2012 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2013 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2014 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2015 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2016 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2017 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2019 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2021 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2022 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2023 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2025 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2027 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2028 previous thread in the search results.
2030 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2032 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2033 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2035 Faster search and show
2037 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2038 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2039 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2040 threads should show faster.
2044 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2045 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2046 in question was now removed from this release.
2051 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2052 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2057 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2059 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2060 ===========================
2065 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2067 Internal test framework changes
2068 -------------------------------
2070 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2071 being unimplemented.
2073 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2074 ===========================
2076 Internal test framework changes
2077 -------------------------------
2079 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2080 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2082 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2083 =========================
2088 Date range search support
2090 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2091 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2092 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2093 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2094 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2097 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2099 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2100 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2101 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2102 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2103 but may be removed in a future release.
2105 Command-Line Interface
2106 ----------------------
2108 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2110 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2111 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2113 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2115 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2116 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2117 officially deprecated.
2119 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2121 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2122 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2123 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2125 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2127 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2128 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2131 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2132 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2133 dump/restore format.
2135 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2137 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2138 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2139 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2141 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2143 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2144 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2145 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2147 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2149 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2150 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2151 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2152 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2157 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2159 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2160 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2161 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2162 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2164 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2166 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2167 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2168 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2169 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2170 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2171 the behavior of this, see
2172 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2173 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2175 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2176 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2177 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2179 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2181 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2182 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2185 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2187 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2188 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2189 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2190 simply displayed in place of the message.
2192 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2194 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2195 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2197 Improved text/calendar content handling
2199 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2200 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2201 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2202 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2204 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2206 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2207 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2208 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2209 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2211 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2213 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2214 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2215 for HTML email containing images.
2217 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2219 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2221 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2223 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2226 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2228 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2229 the point where it was.
2231 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2233 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2234 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2235 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2236 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2237 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2239 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2241 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2242 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2243 thread instead of the message id.
2245 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2246 -----------------------------
2248 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2249 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2250 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2251 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2252 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2253 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2254 further details and installation.
2259 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2261 Internal test framework changes
2262 -------------------------------
2264 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2266 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2267 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2268 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2269 can result in buggy behavior.
2271 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2272 =========================
2277 Maildir tag synchronization
2279 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2280 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2281 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2282 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2283 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2284 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2287 Command-Line Interface
2288 ----------------------
2290 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2291 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2292 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2293 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2294 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2300 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2302 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2304 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2305 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2306 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2308 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2310 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2311 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2312 span multiple lines.
2314 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2316 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2317 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2318 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2319 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2320 inside the result or message.
2322 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2324 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2325 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2327 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2328 user-specified formatting
2330 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2331 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2332 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2333 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2334 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2336 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2337 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2339 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2340 ===========================
2345 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2346 compilation error for this contrib package.
2348 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2349 ===========================
2354 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2356 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2357 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2358 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2359 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2361 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2362 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2365 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2366 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2367 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2368 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2371 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2373 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2376 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2377 =========================
2379 Command-Line Interface
2380 ----------------------
2384 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2385 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2386 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2387 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2389 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2390 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2391 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2392 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2396 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2397 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2399 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2400 tag in your query, for example:
2402 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2404 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2405 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2407 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2408 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2410 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2412 Raw show format changes
2414 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2415 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2416 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2417 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2418 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2419 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2420 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2421 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2423 Listing configuration items
2425 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2431 Changes to tagging interface
2433 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2434 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2435 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2436 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2437 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2438 for more information.
2440 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2441 may need to update in custom configurations.
2443 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2445 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2446 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2447 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2448 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2451 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2452 -----------------------------
2454 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2455 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2456 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2457 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2458 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2459 contrib/ from now on.
2464 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2465 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2467 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2468 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2470 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2471 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2472 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2474 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2475 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2477 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2478 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2479 returning the new database object or directory object.
2486 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2487 compatible with go 1.
2489 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2490 =========================
2492 Command-Line Interface
2493 ----------------------
2497 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2498 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2499 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2500 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2502 Mail store folder/file ignore
2504 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2505 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2506 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2508 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2509 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2511 Unified help and manual pages
2513 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2514 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2517 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2519 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2520 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2528 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2529 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2530 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2531 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2533 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2535 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2536 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2538 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2541 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2542 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2543 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2545 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2547 should be changed to:
2549 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2551 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2553 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2554 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2556 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2558 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2559 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2560 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2561 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2562 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2563 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2567 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2568 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2569 of Mailing List Archives.
2571 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2573 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2574 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2577 Show view archiving key binding changes
2579 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2580 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2581 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2582 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2583 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2586 Support text/calendar MIME type
2588 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2591 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2593 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2594 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2595 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2596 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2598 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2600 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2601 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2602 messages blue by default in the search view.
2606 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2607 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2614 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2617 Python bindings changes
2618 -----------------------
2620 Python 3.2 compatibility
2622 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2624 Added missing unicode conversions
2626 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2627 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2628 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2633 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2635 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2636 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2637 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2638 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2639 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2641 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2642 ===========================
2647 Fix error handling in python bindings
2649 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2650 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2651 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2652 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2654 Quote MML tags in replies
2656 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2657 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2658 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2659 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2660 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2661 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2662 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2663 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2665 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2666 =========================
2668 Command-Line Interface
2669 ----------------------
2673 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2674 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2675 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2676 importing new messages into the database.
2678 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2680 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2681 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2682 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2687 Automatic tag query optimization
2689 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2690 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2691 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2693 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2695 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2696 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2697 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2702 Reduction of memory leaks
2704 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2705 and fixed in this release.
2712 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2713 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2714 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2717 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2719 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2720 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2721 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2724 Improvements in saved search management
2726 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2727 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2728 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2730 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2732 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2733 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2734 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2736 New face for crypto parts headers
2738 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2739 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2740 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2743 Use space as default thousands separator
2745 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2746 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2747 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2749 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2750 buttonized id: links
2752 New function notmuch-show-advance
2754 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2755 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2756 be bound to SPC with:
2758 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2760 Various performance improvements
2765 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2766 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2769 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2770 ===========================
2775 Fix crash in python bindings
2777 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2778 for some, but not all users.
2780 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2781 ===========================
2786 Fix `--help` argument
2788 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2789 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2790 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2792 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2793 =========================
2795 New build and testing features
2796 ------------------------------
2798 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2799 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2800 prerequisites is improved.
2802 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2804 New command-line features
2805 -------------------------
2807 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2809 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2810 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2813 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2815 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2816 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2817 favour of using stdout.
2819 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2821 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2822 limit the number of results shown.
2824 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2826 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2827 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2830 New emacs UI features
2831 ---------------------
2833 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2835 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2836 starting with "tag:".
2838 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2840 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2841 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2843 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2845 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2847 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2849 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2850 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2855 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2857 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2859 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2860 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2861 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2862 requires a database rebuild:
2864 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2865 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2867 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2869 New collection of add-on tools
2870 ------------------------------
2872 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2873 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2874 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2877 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2879 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2880 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2881 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2883 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2884 ========================
2886 New, general features
2887 ---------------------
2889 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2891 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2892 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2893 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2894 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2895 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2902 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2903 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2905 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2909 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2910 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2911 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2914 Python bindings changes
2915 -----------------------
2917 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2919 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2920 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2921 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2922 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2923 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2924 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2926 Ruby bindings changes
2927 ---------------------
2929 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2930 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2931 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2932 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2937 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2939 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2940 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2942 Reply formatting cleanup
2943 ------------------------
2945 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2946 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2948 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2949 ========================
2951 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2953 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2954 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2955 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2956 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2959 Improved Build system portability
2961 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2962 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2963 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2965 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2967 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2969 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2971 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2972 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2973 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2975 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2976 ========================
2978 Vim interface improvements
2979 --------------------------
2981 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2983 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2984 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2985 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2986 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2987 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2989 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2991 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2992 * fix compose temp file name
2994 Python Bindings changes
2995 -----------------------
2997 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2999 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3000 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3002 Build-System improvements
3003 -------------------------
3005 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3007 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3010 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3011 ==========================
3016 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3018 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3019 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3021 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3022 =======================
3024 New, general features
3025 ---------------------
3027 Folder-based searching
3029 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3030 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3031 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3035 For example, one might use things such as:
3041 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3042 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3044 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3045 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3046 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3047 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3049 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3050 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3051 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3054 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3055 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3057 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3059 Support for PGP/MIME
3061 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3062 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3063 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3065 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3067 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3068 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3070 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3071 notmuch will receive these tags.
3073 New command-line features
3074 -------------------------
3076 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3078 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3079 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3081 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3083 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3084 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3085 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3087 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3089 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3090 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3091 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3092 which parts a signature part applies).
3094 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3096 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3097 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3098 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3099 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3100 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3103 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3105 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3106 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3107 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3108 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3109 by translating it internally to the new call.
3111 Performance improvements
3112 ------------------------
3114 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3116 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3117 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3118 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3120 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3121 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3123 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3125 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3126 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3127 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3129 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3130 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3131 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3132 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3134 Faster initial indexing
3136 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3137 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3138 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3140 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3142 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3143 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3144 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3145 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3147 New emacs-interface features
3148 ----------------------------
3150 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3152 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3153 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3154 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3155 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3156 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3157 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3159 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3161 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3162 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3163 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3164 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3166 User-selectable From address
3168 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3169 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3170 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3171 will prompt for the from address to use.
3173 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3174 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3175 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3177 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3178 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3179 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3182 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3184 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3185 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3187 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3189 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3191 ----- Original Message -----
3193 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3194 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3195 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3196 citations work much like conventional citations.
3198 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3200 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3201 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3202 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3203 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3204 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3206 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3207 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3209 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3211 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3212 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3213 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3215 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3217 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3218 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3219 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3220 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3221 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3223 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3225 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3228 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3230 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3232 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3234 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3237 Vim interface improvements
3238 --------------------------
3240 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3242 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3243 * Implementing archive in show view
3244 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3245 * Add delete commands
3248 Bindings improvements
3249 ---------------------
3251 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3253 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3254 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3256 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3258 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3262 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3263 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3264 `list(Messages)` works now
3265 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3267 These allow, for example:
3269 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3271 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3273 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3279 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3281 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3284 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3286 New build-system features
3287 -------------------------
3289 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3291 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3292 the configure script from some other directory:
3299 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3301 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3302 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3303 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3304 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3305 manual invocation of configure.
3307 New test-suite feature
3308 ----------------------
3310 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3312 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3313 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3314 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3315 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3316 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3319 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3321 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3322 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3323 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3324 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3325 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3326 are updated to take advantage of this.
3328 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3330 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3331 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3332 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3333 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3339 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3341 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3342 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3343 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3345 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3347 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3349 to:user@elsewhere.com
3351 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3353 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3355 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3357 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3358 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3359 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3362 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3363 from the Received headers in some cases
3365 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3366 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3368 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3370 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3372 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3374 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3375 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3376 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3378 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3379 -------------------------
3381 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3383 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3384 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3385 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3387 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3389 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3390 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3391 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3394 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3396 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3397 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3398 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3399 fixed to avoid this bug.
3401 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3403 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3404 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3406 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3407 ========================
3409 New, general features
3410 ---------------------
3412 Maildir-flag synchronization
3414 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3415 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3424 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3426 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3427 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3428 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3429 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3431 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3432 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3433 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3434 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3437 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3439 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3440 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3441 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3443 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3444 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3446 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3447 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3449 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3450 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3451 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3453 New library features
3454 --------------------
3456 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3458 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3459 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3460 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3461 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3463 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3464 message with the new function:
3466 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3468 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3469 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3470 over all available filenames for a given message.
3472 New command-line features
3473 -------------------------
3475 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3477 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3478 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3479 access to the mail store itself.
3481 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3482 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3483 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3484 name of a script containing:
3486 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3488 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3489 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3495 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3497 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3499 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3501 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3502 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3503 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3504 now produces nothing).
3506 Emacs interface improvements
3507 ----------------------------
3509 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3511 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3513 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3515 Display current thread subject in a header line
3517 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3519 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3521 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3522 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3523 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3524 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3525 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3526 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3527 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3529 Vim interface improvements
3530 --------------------------
3532 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3534 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3535 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3541 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3543 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3544 ========================
3546 New command-line features
3547 -------------------------
3549 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3551 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3552 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3553 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3555 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3556 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3557 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3558 scripts. For example:
3560 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3561 <operations-on> "$file"
3564 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3566 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3567 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3568 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3569 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3570 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3571 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3573 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3575 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3576 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3577 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3578 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3580 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3582 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3583 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3584 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3585 default rather than Bcc.
3587 New library features
3588 --------------------
3590 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3592 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3593 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3598 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3600 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3601 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3602 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3603 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3604 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3605 notmuch customize interface.
3607 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3609 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3610 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3611 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3612 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3614 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3616 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3617 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3618 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3619 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3621 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3623 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3624 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3625 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3626 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3627 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3628 notmuch customize interface.
3630 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3632 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3633 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3634 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3635 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3636 notmuch customize interface.
3638 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3640 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3641 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3642 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3643 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3646 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3648 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3649 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3650 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3653 New build-system features
3654 -------------------------
3656 Various portability fixes have been applied
3658 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3659 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3660 more portable than ever before.
3662 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3664 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3665 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3666 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3668 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3669 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3670 automatically run ldconfig.
3672 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3673 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3674 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3676 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3677 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3678 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3679 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3681 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3683 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3684 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3685 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3686 used in the resulting Makefile.
3688 New test-suite features
3689 -----------------------
3691 New modularization of test suite
3693 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3694 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3695 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3696 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3697 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3698 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3699 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3700 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3702 New testing of emacs interface
3704 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3705 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3706 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3707 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3708 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3709 database via the FCC setting.
3714 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3716 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3717 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3718 persistent error of the form:
3720 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3722 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3723 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3725 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3727 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3728 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3729 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3731 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3733 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3734 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3735 parsing the notmuch results).
3737 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3739 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3742 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3743 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3744 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3749 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3751 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3752 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3753 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3754 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3755 the emacs interface.
3757 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3759 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3760 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3761 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3763 Python-binding fixes
3764 --------------------
3766 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3768 Debian-specific fixes
3769 ---------------------
3771 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3773 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3774 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3775 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3778 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3779 ==========================
3784 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3786 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3787 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3788 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3789 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3791 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3793 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3794 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3795 want notmuch to crash.
3800 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3802 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3803 directory does not exist
3808 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3810 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3811 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3813 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3814 ========================
3816 New command-line features
3817 -------------------------
3819 User-configurable tags for new messages
3821 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3822 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3823 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3824 to specify this value.
3826 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3828 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3829 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3830 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3832 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3834 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3835 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3837 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3839 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3840 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3841 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3842 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3843 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3846 Indication of author names that match a search
3848 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3849 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3850 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3851 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3852 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3853 messages in the thread are listed first.
3855 New: Python bindings
3856 --------------------
3858 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3859 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3860 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3861 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3863 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3864 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3865 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3868 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3869 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3870 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3872 Emacs interface improvements
3873 ----------------------------
3875 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3877 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3878 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3879 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3880 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3881 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3882 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3883 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3884 but without any of the disadvantages).
3886 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3887 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3888 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3891 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3892 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3893 instead running something like:
3895 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3897 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3898 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3899 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3902 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3904 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3905 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3906 tweaked by the user.
3908 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3909 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3910 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3913 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3914 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3915 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3918 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3920 This support currently relies on an external program,
3921 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3922 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3923 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3924 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3925 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3928 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3929 notmuch) is available via:
3931 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3933 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3934 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3935 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3937 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3939 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3940 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3941 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3942 making this automatic in a future release.
3944 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3946 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3947 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3948 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3949 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3950 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3951 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3954 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3956 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3957 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3958 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3960 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3962 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3963 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3964 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3966 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3967 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3968 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3969 other representation.
3971 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3972 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3975 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3977 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3978 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3979 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3981 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3982 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3983 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3985 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3987 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3988 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3989 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3990 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3991 to display the search result.
3993 More flexible handling of header visibility
3995 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3996 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3997 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3998 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3999 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4000 with the 'h' keybinding.
4002 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4003 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4004 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4006 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4008 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4010 Customizable formatting of search results
4012 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4013 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4014 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4016 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4018 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4020 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4025 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4027 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4028 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4029 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4030 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4036 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4038 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4039 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4041 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4043 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4044 accept are now all accepted.
4049 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4051 Better display of output from failed tests
4053 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4054 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4056 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4057 ========================
4059 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4060 detailed release notes this time!
4062 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4063 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4065 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4066 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4067 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4068 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4075 Better guessing of From: header
4077 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4078 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4079 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4080 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4081 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4084 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4086 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4087 guaranteed to match all messages.
4089 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4091 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4092 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4093 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4094 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4095 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4098 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4101 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4102 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4103 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4104 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4109 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4111 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4112 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4113 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4114 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4116 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4118 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4120 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4121 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4122 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4124 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4126 Previously, the user might see:
4128 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4132 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4134 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4135 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4136 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4137 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4139 Emacs client features
4140 ---------------------
4142 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4144 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4145 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4146 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4147 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4148 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4150 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4153 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4154 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4155 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4156 search with the '*' binding.
4158 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4160 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4161 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4164 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4166 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4167 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4168 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4170 Build-system features
4171 ---------------------
4173 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4175 Add support to configure for many standard options
4177 We include actual support for:
4179 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4181 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4183 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4184 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4186 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4187 separate "make install-emacs"
4189 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4191 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4192 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4193 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4195 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4198 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4199 ========================
4201 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4203 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4204 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4206 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4207 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4208 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4209 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4210 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4211 tags from messages in a thread.
4218 indent-tabs-mode: nil