1 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
2 ===========================
7 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
8 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
9 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
11 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
12 --------------------------
14 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
15 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
17 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
18 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
19 and database location options as the library does.
21 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
23 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
24 ===========================
29 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
30 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
31 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
32 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
33 status returns for the same 3 functions.
35 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
36 =========================
41 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
42 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
43 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
44 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
45 s-expression query support.
50 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
55 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
57 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
59 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
61 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
63 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
64 ===========================
69 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
71 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
72 ===========================
77 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
78 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
81 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
82 =========================
87 Correct documentation about transactions.
89 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
90 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
92 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
97 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
103 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
104 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
105 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
107 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
109 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
111 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
113 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
115 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
117 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
120 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
125 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
126 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
127 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
128 split, following an old library API change.
133 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
138 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
140 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
142 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
143 ===========================
148 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
151 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
154 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
155 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
160 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
162 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
163 ===========================
168 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
174 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
179 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
184 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
189 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
190 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
192 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
193 ===========================
198 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
199 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
200 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
202 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
203 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
204 database in a pre-new hook.
206 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
207 default worked only in "notmuch config".
212 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
213 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
215 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
216 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
217 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
219 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
220 =========================
225 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
226 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
227 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
228 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
229 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
230 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
231 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
232 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
233 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
234 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
235 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
240 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
241 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
243 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
244 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
245 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
246 - `notmuch_config_get`
248 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
249 now exposed (and generalized).
251 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
252 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
253 session has been fixed.
255 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
256 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
261 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
262 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
264 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
265 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
270 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
271 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
272 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
273 when prompting for senders.
275 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
276 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
279 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
281 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
283 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
284 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
285 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
286 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
287 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
288 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
289 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
291 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
292 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
294 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
295 you should change it to:
296 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
298 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
299 ===========================
304 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
309 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
311 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
312 ===========================
317 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
322 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
327 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
329 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
330 ===========================
335 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
336 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
338 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
339 ===========================
344 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
349 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
350 with a C++ header for some compilers.
352 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
354 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
355 =========================
360 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
361 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
362 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
364 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
366 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
368 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
370 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
373 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
375 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
376 search, show and tree mode)
378 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
381 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
384 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
385 always be newest first.
390 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
391 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
392 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
398 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
399 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
400 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
401 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
403 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
404 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
405 non-status providing versions.
407 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
408 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
410 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
411 promised in the documentation.
416 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
417 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
418 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
423 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
424 development version).
429 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
434 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
436 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
437 =========================
442 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
443 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
444 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
447 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
453 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
454 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
455 notmuch-properties(7)).
460 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
461 has protected headers (see
462 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
463 notmuch-properties(7)).
468 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
470 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
471 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
477 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
480 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
481 ===========================
486 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
488 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
493 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
495 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
496 ===========================
501 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
502 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
504 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
505 ===========================
510 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
512 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
513 =========================
518 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
519 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
522 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
523 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
524 the set of headers to be indexed.
526 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
529 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
530 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
531 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
534 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
535 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
536 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
538 Command Line Interface
539 ----------------------
541 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
544 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
546 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
547 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
548 more details about what is included there. This status includes
549 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
554 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
555 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
557 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
559 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
561 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
563 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
565 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
568 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
570 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
571 and may be removed in a future release.
573 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
579 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
581 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
582 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
587 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
588 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
589 cryptography support.
594 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
595 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
596 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
598 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
599 ===========================
601 Command line interface
602 ----------------------
604 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
605 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
607 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
608 ===========================
613 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
614 by message properties.
619 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
621 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
622 ===========================
627 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
632 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
633 now needed to build this documentation.
635 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
636 ===========================
641 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
642 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
644 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
645 =========================
652 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
653 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
654 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
655 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
656 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
659 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
661 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
662 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
663 correct encoding for such messages.
665 Command Line Interface
666 ----------------------
668 Support relative database paths
670 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
671 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
672 to $HOME of the invoking user.
677 Improve stderr handling
679 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
680 needed on e.g. macOS.
682 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
684 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
689 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
690 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
696 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
697 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
703 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
704 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
707 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
708 =========================
713 Add support for thread:{} queries
715 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
716 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
717 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
719 Command Line Interface
720 ----------------------
722 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
724 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
726 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
728 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
729 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
730 does not have to be available during message receipt.
735 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
741 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
742 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
744 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
745 ===========================
750 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
752 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
753 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
754 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
756 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
758 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
759 related abort in `notmuch show`.
761 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
762 ===========================
767 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
768 better late than never.
771 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
772 =========================
774 Command Line Interface
775 ----------------------
777 Support for re-indexing existing messages
779 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
780 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
781 change the way specific messages are indexed.
783 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
784 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
785 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
787 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
789 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
791 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
793 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
794 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
795 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
796 the setting of `new.tags`.
798 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
800 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
802 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
804 This inserts into the top level folder.
806 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
808 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
810 New option --output=address for notmuch address
812 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
814 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
816 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
817 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
818 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
820 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
825 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
827 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
828 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
829 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
830 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
831 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
832 config set index.decrypt true".
834 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
835 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
836 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
837 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
838 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
839 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
840 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
841 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
843 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
844 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
845 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
846 this feature without considering the security of your index.
851 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
853 Use make-process when available
855 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
856 notmuch command without using temporary files.
861 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
863 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
864 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
865 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
866 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
868 New functions to count files
870 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
871 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
873 New function to remove properties
875 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
876 drop all properties with a common pattern:
877 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
879 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
881 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
882 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
883 possibility of NULL was not documented.
885 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
887 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
888 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
889 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
890 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
891 operator may decide to change from message to message.
898 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
899 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
900 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
906 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
908 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
909 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
911 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
913 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
915 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
917 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
922 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
923 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
925 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
926 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
927 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
928 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
929 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
930 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
935 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
937 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
938 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
939 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
940 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
942 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
943 ===========================
948 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
949 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
952 Command Line Interface
953 ----------------------
955 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
956 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
959 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
960 ===========================
962 Command Line Interface
963 ----------------------
965 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
966 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
971 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
974 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
975 ===========================
980 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
983 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
984 =========================
989 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
991 Skip HTML tags when indexing
993 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
995 Command Line Interface
996 ----------------------
998 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1000 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1005 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1007 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1008 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1011 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1016 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1018 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1019 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1021 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1023 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1024 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1027 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1029 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1031 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1033 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1034 ===========================
1036 Command Line Interface
1037 ----------------------
1039 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1044 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1046 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1047 ===========================
1052 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1054 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1055 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1058 Command Line Interface
1059 ----------------------
1061 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1063 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1065 Fix bug in dump header
1067 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1068 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1069 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1074 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1076 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1077 =========================
1082 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1084 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1087 Command Line Interface
1088 ----------------------
1090 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1092 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1093 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1094 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1096 New default output format to 3
1098 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1099 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1100 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1101 default format changes.
1106 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1108 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1109 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1110 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1111 or tree view to resume.
1113 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1114 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1115 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1118 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1119 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1123 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1124 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1125 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1126 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1127 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1131 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1132 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1133 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1134 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1135 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1136 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1140 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1141 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1143 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1145 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1146 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1147 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1148 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1149 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1150 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1151 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1152 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1155 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1157 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1158 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1159 only tagged the current thread.)
1161 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1163 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1164 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1165 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1167 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1169 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1170 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1171 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1172 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1173 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1174 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1175 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1177 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1179 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1180 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1181 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1186 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1188 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1191 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1193 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1196 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1197 ===========================
1202 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1204 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1205 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1206 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1209 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1210 ===========================
1212 Command Line Interface
1213 ----------------------
1215 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1220 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1222 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1223 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1224 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1226 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1227 ===========================
1232 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1233 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1235 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1236 ===========================
1238 Command Line Interface
1239 ----------------------
1241 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1243 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1244 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1245 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1250 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1252 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1253 ===========================
1255 Command Line Interface
1256 ----------------------
1258 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1263 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1265 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1266 ===========================
1271 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1273 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1274 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1275 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1277 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1279 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1281 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1282 ===========================
1287 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1289 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1294 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1296 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1297 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1298 the original colours.
1300 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1301 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1303 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1305 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1306 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1307 bug, and hence the test.
1309 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1310 =========================
1312 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1313 ---------------------
1315 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1317 Support for single argument date: queries
1319 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1321 Support for blocking opens
1323 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1324 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1326 Support for named queries
1328 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1329 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1330 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1335 Message property API
1337 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1338 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1339 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1340 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1342 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1344 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1349 Support for compile time options
1351 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1352 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1355 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1357 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1358 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1359 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1360 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1361 scripts to ignore it.
1366 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1368 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1369 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1370 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1372 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1373 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1374 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1375 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1376 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1377 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1378 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1380 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1381 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1384 Make internal address completion customizable
1386 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1387 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1388 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1389 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1392 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1394 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1395 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1396 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1397 completion for the current buffer.
1399 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1400 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1401 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1405 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1406 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1407 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1408 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1409 will be added instead.
1411 Face customization is easier
1413 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1414 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1415 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1416 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1418 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1423 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1428 Go bindings moved to contrib
1430 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1432 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1434 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1435 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1437 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1439 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1440 ===========================
1447 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1448 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1450 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1452 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1454 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1455 ===========================
1460 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1462 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1467 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1472 Use `env` to locate perl.
1477 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1479 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1481 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1483 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1485 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1486 =========================
1493 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1494 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1496 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1498 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1499 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1500 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1505 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1506 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1507 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1509 Command Line Interface
1510 ----------------------
1512 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1514 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1519 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1524 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1526 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1527 parts are now included in replies.
1529 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1530 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1531 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1532 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1534 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1536 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1538 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1540 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1541 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1542 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1543 forwards only the current message.
1545 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1547 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1548 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1549 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1550 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1551 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1552 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1553 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1554 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1557 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1558 longer generate empty buffers
1560 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1561 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1562 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1563 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1564 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1566 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1568 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1571 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1573 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1576 Address completion improvements
1578 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1579 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1580 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1581 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1582 interactive address completion.
1584 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1586 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1587 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1588 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1593 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1594 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1595 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1601 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1602 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1603 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1604 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1605 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1606 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1608 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1609 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1610 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1611 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1612 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1613 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1615 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1616 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1618 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1619 =========================
1624 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1627 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1629 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1630 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1631 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1633 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1634 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1636 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1637 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1638 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1640 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1642 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1643 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1644 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1645 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1646 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1647 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1652 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1653 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1656 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1657 option to configure.
1659 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1661 Command Line Interface
1662 ----------------------
1664 Database revision tracking
1666 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1667 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1668 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1669 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1671 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1673 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1674 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1675 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1676 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1677 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1678 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1679 manual page for further information.
1684 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1686 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1687 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1689 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1691 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1692 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1693 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1695 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1697 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1699 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1700 customization as well.
1702 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1704 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1706 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1708 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1710 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1711 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1712 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1713 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1715 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1717 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1718 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1719 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1720 this variable to 10000.
1725 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1726 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1728 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1730 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1731 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1732 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1733 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1734 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1735 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1736 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1737 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1738 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1741 Database revision tracking
1743 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1744 query parser and the new function
1745 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1747 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1749 Deprecated functions
1751 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1752 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1753 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1754 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1759 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1761 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1762 ===========================
1767 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1769 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1770 ===========================
1775 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1777 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1778 =========================
1780 Command-Line Interface
1781 ----------------------
1783 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1785 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1786 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1787 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1789 Path to gpg is now configurable
1791 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1792 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1797 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1799 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1804 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1809 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1814 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1816 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1817 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1819 New error logging facility
1821 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1822 output formerly printed to stderr.
1824 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1826 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1828 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1830 Fix for rounding of seconds
1835 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1837 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1838 documentation has been removed.
1840 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1842 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1843 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1848 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1849 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1850 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1855 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1856 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1857 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1858 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1859 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1860 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1863 git checkout config origin/config
1865 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1867 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1868 =========================
1873 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1874 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1875 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1876 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1877 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1878 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1879 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1881 Command-Line Interface
1882 ----------------------
1884 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1886 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1887 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1888 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1889 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1890 script callers should still check the return value.
1892 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1894 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1895 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1896 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1897 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1898 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1899 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1900 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1902 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1904 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1905 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1906 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1908 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1910 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1911 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1912 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1913 currently unmaintained.
1915 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1917 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1918 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1919 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1920 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1922 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1924 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1925 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1926 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1927 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1928 count of duplicate addresses.
1933 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1935 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1936 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1937 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1940 Improved handling of the unread tag
1942 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1943 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1944 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1945 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1946 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1947 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1948 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1950 Expanded default saved search settings
1952 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1953 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1955 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1957 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1958 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1959 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1961 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1963 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1964 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1965 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1966 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1967 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1968 the variable for details.
1973 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1975 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1976 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1977 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1978 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1980 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1982 Previously, library users were required to call
1983 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1984 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1985 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1986 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1987 too out of date for that API.
1989 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1991 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1992 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1993 atomic section will be aborted.
1995 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1996 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1998 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2000 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2001 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2002 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2003 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2004 messages into the same thread.
2009 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2010 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2011 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2012 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2013 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2014 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2019 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2020 from the config file. Use something like:
2024 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2025 "footer": "</body></html>",
2034 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2039 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2040 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2041 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2043 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2044 ===========================
2049 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2051 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2053 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2055 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2056 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2058 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2060 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2063 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2064 ===========================
2066 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2071 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2073 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2075 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2077 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2079 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2085 Use --quick when starting emacs
2087 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2089 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2091 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2093 Command-Line Interface
2094 ----------------------
2096 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2097 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2102 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2104 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2105 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2107 Fix for phrase indexing
2109 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2110 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2111 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2116 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2118 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2119 unintentionally removed.
2121 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2122 =========================
2127 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2128 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2129 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2130 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2131 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2132 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2133 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2134 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2135 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2141 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2143 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2144 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2145 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2146 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2147 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2148 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2149 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2150 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2152 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2154 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2155 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2156 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2157 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2160 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2162 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2163 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2164 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2165 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2166 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2167 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2168 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2173 Notmuch database upgrade
2175 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2176 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2177 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2178 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2179 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2180 released version of Notmuch before now.
2182 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2184 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2185 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2186 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2187 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2189 Message header parsing changes
2191 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2192 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2193 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2194 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2195 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2196 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2198 Command-Line Interface
2199 ----------------------
2201 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2203 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2205 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2207 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2209 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2211 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2212 user does not want it.
2214 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2216 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2217 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2218 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2219 support formatted output.
2221 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2223 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2224 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2225 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2233 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2234 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2235 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2236 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2237 `~/.emacs` with these.
2239 Changed format for saved searches
2241 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2242 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2243 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2244 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2247 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2248 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2249 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2250 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2252 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2253 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2254 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2256 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2257 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2258 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2259 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2260 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2262 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2264 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2265 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2266 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2268 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2270 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2271 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2272 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2273 message had been unread).
2275 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2276 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2277 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2278 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2280 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2281 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2282 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2284 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2285 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2286 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2287 to tags already present.
2291 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2292 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2293 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2294 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2295 these differ from each other.
2296 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2298 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2300 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2301 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2302 for these Emacs versions.
2304 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2306 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2307 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2309 Bug fixes for sender identities
2311 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2312 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2313 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2315 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2317 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2318 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2319 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2320 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2322 Reply pushes mark before signature
2324 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2325 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2326 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2328 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2330 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2331 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2337 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2338 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2340 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2341 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2342 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2343 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2345 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2346 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2347 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2348 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2349 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2351 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2353 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2354 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2356 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2357 =========================
2359 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2360 ---------------------------------------
2362 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2363 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2364 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2365 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2366 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2367 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2368 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2372 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2373 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2375 Command-Line Interface
2376 ----------------------
2378 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2380 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2381 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2382 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2383 print for each message.
2385 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2386 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2387 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2388 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2390 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2392 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2393 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2394 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2396 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2398 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2399 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2400 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2401 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2403 `notmuch compact` command
2405 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2406 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2407 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2408 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2409 move the compacted database into place.
2414 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2416 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2417 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2418 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2419 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2420 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2421 and multiple threads.
2423 Using `notmuch-tree`
2425 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2427 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2428 search, show and tree mode itself)
2430 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2433 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2434 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2436 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2438 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2439 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2440 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2441 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2442 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2443 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2444 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2446 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2448 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2449 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2450 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2451 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2452 thread when the search was performed.
2454 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2456 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2457 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2458 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2460 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2462 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2463 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2466 Built-in help improvements
2468 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2469 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2470 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2472 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2474 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2475 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2476 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2478 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2480 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2481 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2483 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2485 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2486 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2487 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2488 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2490 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2492 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2493 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2494 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2495 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2497 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2499 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2500 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2501 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2503 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2505 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2506 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2507 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2509 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2511 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2512 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2513 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2514 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2515 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2517 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2519 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2520 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2521 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2522 the body part of the message.
2527 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2528 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2529 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2531 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2532 =========================
2534 Command-Line Interface
2535 ----------------------
2537 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2539 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2540 folder and notmuch index.
2542 `notmuch count --batch` option
2544 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2545 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2547 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2549 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2550 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2551 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2554 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2556 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2557 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2558 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2559 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2560 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2563 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2565 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2566 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2568 Top level option to specify configuration file
2570 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2571 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2573 Bash command-line completion
2575 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2576 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2577 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2578 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2579 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2580 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2581 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2582 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2583 bash-completion package.
2585 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2590 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2592 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2593 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2594 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2595 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2596 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2597 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2598 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2599 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2601 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2603 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2604 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2605 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2607 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2609 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2610 previous thread in the search results.
2612 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2614 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2615 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2617 Faster search and show
2619 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2620 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2621 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2622 threads should show faster.
2626 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2627 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2628 in question was now removed from this release.
2633 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2634 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2639 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2641 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2642 ===========================
2647 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2649 Internal test framework changes
2650 -------------------------------
2652 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2653 being unimplemented.
2655 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2656 ===========================
2658 Internal test framework changes
2659 -------------------------------
2661 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2662 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2664 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2665 =========================
2670 Date range search support
2672 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2673 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2674 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2675 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2676 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2679 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2681 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2682 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2683 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2684 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2685 but may be removed in a future release.
2687 Command-Line Interface
2688 ----------------------
2690 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2692 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2693 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2695 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2697 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2698 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2699 officially deprecated.
2701 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2703 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2704 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2705 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2707 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2709 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2710 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2713 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2714 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2715 dump/restore format.
2717 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2719 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2720 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2721 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2723 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2725 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2726 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2727 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2729 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2731 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2732 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2733 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2734 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2739 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2741 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2742 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2743 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2744 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2746 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2748 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2749 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2750 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2751 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2752 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2753 the behavior of this, see
2754 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2755 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2757 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2758 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2759 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2761 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2763 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2764 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2767 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2769 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2770 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2771 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2772 simply displayed in place of the message.
2774 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2776 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2777 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2779 Improved text/calendar content handling
2781 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2782 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2783 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2784 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2786 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2788 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2789 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2790 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2791 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2793 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2795 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2796 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2797 for HTML email containing images.
2799 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2801 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2803 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2805 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2808 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2810 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2811 the point where it was.
2813 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2815 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2816 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2817 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2818 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2819 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2821 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2823 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2824 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2825 thread instead of the message id.
2827 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2828 -----------------------------
2830 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2831 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2832 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2833 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2834 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2835 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2836 further details and installation.
2841 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2843 Internal test framework changes
2844 -------------------------------
2846 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2848 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2849 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2850 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2851 can result in buggy behavior.
2853 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2854 =========================
2859 Maildir tag synchronization
2861 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2862 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2863 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2864 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2865 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2866 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2869 Command-Line Interface
2870 ----------------------
2872 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2873 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2874 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2875 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2876 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2882 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2884 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2886 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2887 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2888 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2890 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2892 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2893 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2894 span multiple lines.
2896 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2898 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2899 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2900 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2901 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2902 inside the result or message.
2904 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2906 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2907 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2909 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2910 user-specified formatting
2912 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2913 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2914 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2915 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2916 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2918 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2919 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2921 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2922 ===========================
2927 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2928 compilation error for this contrib package.
2930 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2931 ===========================
2936 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2938 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2939 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2940 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2941 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2943 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2944 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2947 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2948 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2949 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2950 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2953 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2955 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2958 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2959 =========================
2961 Command-Line Interface
2962 ----------------------
2966 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2967 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2968 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2969 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2971 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2972 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2973 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2974 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2978 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2979 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2981 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2982 tag in your query, for example:
2984 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2986 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2987 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2989 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2990 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2992 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2994 Raw show format changes
2996 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2997 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2998 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2999 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3000 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3001 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3002 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3003 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3005 Listing configuration items
3007 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3013 Changes to tagging interface
3015 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3016 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3017 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3018 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3019 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3020 for more information.
3022 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3023 may need to update in custom configurations.
3025 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3027 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3028 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3029 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3030 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3033 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3034 -----------------------------
3036 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3037 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3038 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3039 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3040 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3041 contrib/ from now on.
3046 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3047 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3049 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3050 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3052 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3053 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3054 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3056 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3057 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3059 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3060 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3061 returning the new database object or directory object.
3068 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3069 compatible with go 1.
3071 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3072 =========================
3074 Command-Line Interface
3075 ----------------------
3079 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3080 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3081 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3082 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3084 Mail store folder/file ignore
3086 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3087 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3088 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3090 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3091 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3093 Unified help and manual pages
3095 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3096 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3099 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3101 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3102 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3110 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3111 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3112 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3113 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3115 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3117 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3118 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3120 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3123 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3124 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3125 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3127 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3129 should be changed to:
3131 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3133 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3135 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3136 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3138 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3140 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3141 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3142 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3143 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3144 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3145 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3149 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3150 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3151 of Mailing List Archives.
3153 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3155 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3156 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3159 Show view archiving key binding changes
3161 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3162 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3163 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3164 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3165 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3168 Support text/calendar MIME type
3170 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3173 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3175 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3176 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3177 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3178 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3180 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3182 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3183 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3184 messages blue by default in the search view.
3188 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3189 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3196 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3199 Python bindings changes
3200 -----------------------
3202 Python 3.2 compatibility
3204 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3206 Added missing unicode conversions
3208 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3209 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3210 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3215 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3217 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3218 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3219 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3220 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3221 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3223 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3224 ===========================
3229 Fix error handling in python bindings
3231 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3232 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3233 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3234 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3236 Quote MML tags in replies
3238 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3239 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3240 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3241 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3242 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3243 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3244 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3245 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3247 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3248 =========================
3250 Command-Line Interface
3251 ----------------------
3255 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3256 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3257 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3258 importing new messages into the database.
3260 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3262 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3263 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3264 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3269 Automatic tag query optimization
3271 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3272 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3273 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3275 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3277 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3278 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3279 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3284 Reduction of memory leaks
3286 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3287 and fixed in this release.
3294 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3295 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3296 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3299 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3301 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3302 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3303 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3306 Improvements in saved search management
3308 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3309 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3310 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3312 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3314 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3315 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3316 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3318 New face for crypto parts headers
3320 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3321 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3322 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3325 Use space as default thousands separator
3327 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3328 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3329 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3331 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3332 buttonized id: links
3334 New function notmuch-show-advance
3336 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3337 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3338 be bound to SPC with:
3340 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3342 Various performance improvements
3347 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3348 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3351 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3352 ===========================
3357 Fix crash in python bindings
3359 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3360 for some, but not all users.
3362 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3363 ===========================
3368 Fix `--help` argument
3370 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3371 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3372 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3374 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3375 =========================
3377 New build and testing features
3378 ------------------------------
3380 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3381 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3382 prerequisites is improved.
3384 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3386 New command-line features
3387 -------------------------
3389 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3391 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3392 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3395 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3397 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3398 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3399 favour of using stdout.
3401 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3403 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3404 limit the number of results shown.
3406 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3408 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3409 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3412 New emacs UI features
3413 ---------------------
3415 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3417 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3418 starting with "tag:".
3420 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3422 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3423 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3425 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3427 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3429 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3431 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3432 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3437 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3439 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3441 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3442 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3443 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3444 requires a database rebuild:
3446 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3447 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3449 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3451 New collection of add-on tools
3452 ------------------------------
3454 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3455 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3456 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3459 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3461 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3462 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3463 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3465 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3466 ========================
3468 New, general features
3469 ---------------------
3471 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3473 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3474 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3475 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3476 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3477 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3484 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3485 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3487 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3491 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3492 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3493 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3496 Python bindings changes
3497 -----------------------
3499 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3501 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3502 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3503 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3504 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3505 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3506 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3508 Ruby bindings changes
3509 ---------------------
3511 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3512 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3513 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3514 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3519 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3521 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3522 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3524 Reply formatting cleanup
3525 ------------------------
3527 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3528 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3530 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3531 ========================
3533 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3535 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3536 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3537 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3538 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3541 Improved Build system portability
3543 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3544 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3545 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3547 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3549 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3551 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3553 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3554 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3555 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3557 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3558 ========================
3560 Vim interface improvements
3561 --------------------------
3563 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3565 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3566 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3567 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3568 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3569 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3571 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3573 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3574 * fix compose temp file name
3576 Python Bindings changes
3577 -----------------------
3579 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3581 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3582 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3584 Build-System improvements
3585 -------------------------
3587 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3589 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3592 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3593 ==========================
3598 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3600 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3601 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3603 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3604 =======================
3606 New, general features
3607 ---------------------
3609 Folder-based searching
3611 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3612 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3613 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3617 For example, one might use things such as:
3623 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3624 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3626 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3627 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3628 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3629 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3631 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3632 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3633 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3636 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3637 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3639 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3641 Support for PGP/MIME
3643 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3644 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3645 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3647 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3649 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3650 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3652 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3653 notmuch will receive these tags.
3655 New command-line features
3656 -------------------------
3658 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3660 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3661 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3663 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3665 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3666 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3667 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3669 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3671 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3672 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3673 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3674 which parts a signature part applies).
3676 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3678 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3679 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3680 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3681 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3682 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3685 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3687 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3688 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3689 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3690 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3691 by translating it internally to the new call.
3693 Performance improvements
3694 ------------------------
3696 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3698 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3699 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3700 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3702 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3703 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3705 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3707 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3708 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3709 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3711 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3712 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3713 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3714 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3716 Faster initial indexing
3718 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3719 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3720 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3722 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3724 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3725 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3726 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3727 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3729 New emacs-interface features
3730 ----------------------------
3732 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3734 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3735 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3736 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3737 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3738 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3739 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3741 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3743 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3744 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3745 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3746 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3748 User-selectable From address
3750 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3751 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3752 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3753 will prompt for the from address to use.
3755 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3756 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3757 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3759 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3760 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3761 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3764 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3766 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3767 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3769 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3771 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3773 ----- Original Message -----
3775 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3776 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3777 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3778 citations work much like conventional citations.
3780 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3782 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3783 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3784 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3785 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3786 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3788 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3789 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3791 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3793 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3794 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3795 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3797 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3799 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3800 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3801 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3802 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3803 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3805 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3807 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3810 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3812 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3814 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3816 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3819 Vim interface improvements
3820 --------------------------
3822 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3824 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3825 * Implementing archive in show view
3826 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3827 * Add delete commands
3830 Bindings improvements
3831 ---------------------
3833 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3835 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3836 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3838 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3840 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3844 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3845 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3846 `list(Messages)` works now
3847 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3849 These allow, for example:
3851 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3853 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3855 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3861 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3863 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3866 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3868 New build-system features
3869 -------------------------
3871 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3873 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3874 the configure script from some other directory:
3881 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3883 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3884 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3885 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3886 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3887 manual invocation of configure.
3889 New test-suite feature
3890 ----------------------
3892 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3894 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3895 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3896 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3897 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3898 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3901 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3903 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3904 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3905 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3906 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3907 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3908 are updated to take advantage of this.
3910 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3912 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3913 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3914 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3915 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3921 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3923 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3924 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3925 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3927 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3929 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3931 to:user@elsewhere.com
3933 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3935 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3937 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3939 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3940 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3941 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3944 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3945 from the Received headers in some cases
3947 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3948 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3950 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3952 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3954 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3956 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3957 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3958 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3960 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3961 -------------------------
3963 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3965 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3966 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3967 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3969 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3971 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3972 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3973 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3976 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3978 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3979 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3980 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3981 fixed to avoid this bug.
3983 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3985 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3986 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3988 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3989 ========================
3991 New, general features
3992 ---------------------
3994 Maildir-flag synchronization
3996 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3997 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4006 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4008 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4009 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4010 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4011 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4013 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4014 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4015 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4016 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4019 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4021 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4022 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4023 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4025 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4026 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4028 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4029 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4031 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4032 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4033 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4035 New library features
4036 --------------------
4038 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4040 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4041 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4042 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4043 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4045 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4046 message with the new function:
4048 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4050 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4051 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4052 over all available filenames for a given message.
4054 New command-line features
4055 -------------------------
4057 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4059 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4060 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4061 access to the mail store itself.
4063 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4064 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4065 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4066 name of a script containing:
4068 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4070 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4071 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4077 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4079 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4081 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4083 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4084 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4085 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4086 now produces nothing).
4088 Emacs interface improvements
4089 ----------------------------
4091 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4093 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4095 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4097 Display current thread subject in a header line
4099 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4101 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4103 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4104 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4105 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4106 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4107 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4108 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4109 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4111 Vim interface improvements
4112 --------------------------
4114 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4116 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4117 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4123 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4125 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4126 ========================
4128 New command-line features
4129 -------------------------
4131 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4133 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4134 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4135 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4137 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4138 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4139 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4140 scripts. For example:
4142 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4143 <operations-on> "$file"
4146 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4148 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4149 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4150 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4151 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4152 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4153 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4155 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4157 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4158 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4159 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4160 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4162 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4164 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4165 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4166 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4167 default rather than Bcc.
4169 New library features
4170 --------------------
4172 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4174 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4175 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4180 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4182 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4183 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4184 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4185 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4186 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4187 notmuch customize interface.
4189 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4191 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4192 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4193 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4194 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4196 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4198 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4199 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4200 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4201 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4203 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4205 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4206 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4207 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4208 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4209 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4210 notmuch customize interface.
4212 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4214 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4215 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4216 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4217 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4218 notmuch customize interface.
4220 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4222 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4223 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4224 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4225 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4228 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4230 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4231 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4232 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4235 New build-system features
4236 -------------------------
4238 Various portability fixes have been applied
4240 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4241 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4242 more portable than ever before.
4244 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4246 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4247 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4248 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4250 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4251 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4252 automatically run ldconfig.
4254 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4255 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4256 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4258 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4259 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4260 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4261 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4263 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4265 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4266 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4267 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4268 used in the resulting Makefile.
4270 New test-suite features
4271 -----------------------
4273 New modularization of test suite
4275 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4276 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4277 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4278 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4279 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4280 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4281 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4282 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4284 New testing of emacs interface
4286 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4287 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4288 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4289 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4290 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4291 database via the FCC setting.
4296 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4298 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4299 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4300 persistent error of the form:
4302 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4304 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4305 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4307 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4309 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4310 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4311 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4313 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4315 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4316 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4317 parsing the notmuch results).
4319 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4321 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4324 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4325 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4326 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4331 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4333 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4334 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4335 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4336 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4337 the emacs interface.
4339 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4341 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4342 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4343 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4345 Python-binding fixes
4346 --------------------
4348 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4350 Debian-specific fixes
4351 ---------------------
4353 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4355 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4356 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4357 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4360 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4361 ==========================
4366 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4368 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4369 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4370 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4371 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4373 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4375 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4376 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4377 want notmuch to crash.
4382 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4384 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4385 directory does not exist
4390 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4392 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4393 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4395 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4396 ========================
4398 New command-line features
4399 -------------------------
4401 User-configurable tags for new messages
4403 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4404 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4405 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4406 to specify this value.
4408 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4410 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4411 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4412 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4414 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4416 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4417 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4419 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4421 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4422 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4423 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4424 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4425 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4428 Indication of author names that match a search
4430 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4431 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4432 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4433 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4434 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4435 messages in the thread are listed first.
4437 New: Python bindings
4438 --------------------
4440 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4441 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4442 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4443 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4445 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4446 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4447 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4450 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4451 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4452 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4454 Emacs interface improvements
4455 ----------------------------
4457 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4459 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4460 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4461 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4462 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4463 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4464 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4465 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4466 but without any of the disadvantages).
4468 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4469 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4470 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4473 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4474 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4475 instead running something like:
4477 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4479 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4480 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4481 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4484 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4486 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4487 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4488 tweaked by the user.
4490 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4491 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4492 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4495 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4496 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4497 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4500 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4502 This support currently relies on an external program,
4503 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4504 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4505 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4506 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4507 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4510 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4511 notmuch) is available via:
4513 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4515 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4516 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4517 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4519 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4521 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4522 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4523 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4524 making this automatic in a future release.
4526 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4528 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4529 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4530 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4531 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4532 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4533 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4536 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4538 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4539 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4540 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4542 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4544 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4545 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4546 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4548 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4549 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4550 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4551 other representation.
4553 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4554 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4557 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4559 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4560 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4561 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4563 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4564 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4565 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4567 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4569 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4570 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4571 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4572 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4573 to display the search result.
4575 More flexible handling of header visibility
4577 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4578 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4579 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4580 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4581 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4582 with the 'h' keybinding.
4584 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4585 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4586 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4588 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4590 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4592 Customizable formatting of search results
4594 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4595 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4596 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4598 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4600 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4602 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4607 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4609 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4610 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4611 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4612 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4618 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4620 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4621 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4623 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4625 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4626 accept are now all accepted.
4631 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4633 Better display of output from failed tests
4635 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4636 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4638 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4639 ========================
4641 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4642 detailed release notes this time!
4644 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4645 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4647 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4648 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4649 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4650 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4657 Better guessing of From: header
4659 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4660 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4661 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4662 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4663 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4666 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4668 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4669 guaranteed to match all messages.
4671 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4673 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4674 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4675 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4676 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4677 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4680 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4683 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4684 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4685 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4686 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4691 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4693 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4694 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4695 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4696 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4698 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4700 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4702 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4703 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4704 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4706 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4708 Previously, the user might see:
4710 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4714 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4716 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4717 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4718 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4719 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4721 Emacs client features
4722 ---------------------
4724 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4726 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4727 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4728 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4729 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4730 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4732 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4735 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4736 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4737 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4738 search with the '*' binding.
4740 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4742 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4743 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4746 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4748 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4749 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4750 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4752 Build-system features
4753 ---------------------
4755 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4757 Add support to configure for many standard options
4759 We include actual support for:
4761 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4763 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4765 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4766 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4768 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4769 separate "make install-emacs"
4771 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4773 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4774 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4775 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4777 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4780 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4781 ========================
4783 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4785 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4786 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4788 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4789 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4790 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4791 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4792 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4793 tags from messages in a thread.
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