1 Notmuch 0.22 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
9 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
10 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
12 Limited support for S/MIME messages
14 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
15 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
16 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
21 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
22 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
23 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
25 Command Line Interface
26 ----------------------
28 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
30 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
35 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
40 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
42 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
43 parts are now included in replies.
45 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
46 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
47 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
48 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
50 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
52 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
54 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
56 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
57 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
58 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
59 forwards only the current message.
61 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
63 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
64 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
65 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
66 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
67 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
68 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
69 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
70 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
73 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
74 longer generate empty buffers
76 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
77 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
78 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
79 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
80 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
82 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
84 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
87 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
89 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
92 Address completion improvements
94 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
95 you previously configured one, customize the variable
96 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
97 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
98 interactive address completion.
103 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
104 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
105 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
111 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
112 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
113 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
114 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
115 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
116 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
118 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
119 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
120 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
121 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
122 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
123 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
125 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
126 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
128 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
129 =========================
134 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
137 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
139 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
140 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
141 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
143 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
144 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
146 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
147 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
148 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
150 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
152 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
153 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
154 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
155 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
156 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
157 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
162 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
163 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
166 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
169 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
171 Command Line Interface
172 ----------------------
174 Database revision tracking
176 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
177 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
178 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
179 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
181 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
183 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
184 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
185 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
186 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
187 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
188 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
189 manual page for further information.
194 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
196 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
197 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
199 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
201 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
202 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
203 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
205 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
207 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
209 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
210 customization as well.
212 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
214 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
216 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
218 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
220 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
221 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
222 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
223 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
225 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
227 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
228 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
229 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
230 this variable to 10000.
235 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
236 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
238 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
240 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
241 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
242 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
243 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
244 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
245 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
246 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
247 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
248 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
251 Database revision tracking
253 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
254 query parser and the new function
255 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
257 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
261 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
262 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
263 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
264 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
269 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
271 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
272 ===========================
277 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
279 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
280 ===========================
285 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
287 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
288 =========================
290 Command-Line Interface
291 ----------------------
293 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
295 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
296 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
297 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
299 Path to gpg is now configurable
301 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
302 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
307 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
309 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
314 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
319 Support messages without Message-IDs.
324 Undeprecate single message mboxes
326 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
327 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
329 New error logging facility
331 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
332 output formerly printed to stderr.
334 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
336 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
338 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
340 Fix for rounding of seconds
345 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
347 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
348 docmumentation has been removed.
350 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
352 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
353 some material from the relicensed wiki.
358 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
359 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
360 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
365 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
366 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
367 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
368 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
369 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
370 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
373 git checkout config origin/config
375 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
377 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
378 =========================
383 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
384 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
385 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
386 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
387 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
388 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
389 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
391 Command-Line Interface
392 ----------------------
394 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
396 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
397 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
398 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
399 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
400 script callers should still check the return value.
402 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
404 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
405 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
406 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
407 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
408 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
409 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
410 and returning success even if indexing fails).
412 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
414 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
415 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
416 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
418 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
420 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
421 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
422 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
423 currently unmaintained.
425 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
427 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
428 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
429 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
430 have at least `N` files associated with them.
432 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
434 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
435 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
436 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
437 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
438 count of duplicate addresses.
443 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
445 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
446 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
447 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
450 Improved handling of the unread tag
452 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
453 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
454 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
455 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
456 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
457 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
458 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
460 Expanded default saved search settings
462 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
463 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
465 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
467 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
468 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
469 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
471 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
473 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
474 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
475 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
476 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
477 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
478 the variable for details.
483 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
485 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
486 Representing these independently of the database version number will
487 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
488 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
490 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
492 Previously, library users were required to call
493 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
494 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
495 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
496 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
497 too out of date for that API.
499 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
501 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
502 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
503 atomic section will be aborted.
505 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
506 `notmuch_database_destroy`
508 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
510 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
511 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
512 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
513 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
514 messages into the same thread.
519 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
520 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
521 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
522 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
523 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
524 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
529 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
530 from the config file. Use something like:
534 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
535 "footer": "</body></html>",
544 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
549 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
550 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
551 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
553 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
554 ===========================
559 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
561 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
563 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
565 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
566 structure for signatures changed slightly.
568 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
570 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
573 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
574 ===========================
576 This is a bug fix and portability release.
581 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
583 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
585 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
587 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
589 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
595 Use --quick when starting emacs
597 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
599 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
601 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
603 Command-Line Interface
604 ----------------------
606 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
607 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
612 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
614 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
615 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
617 Fix for phrase indexing
619 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
620 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
621 will affect only newly indexed messages.
626 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
628 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
629 unintentionally removed.
631 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
632 =========================
637 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
638 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
639 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
640 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
641 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
642 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
643 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
644 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
645 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
651 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
653 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
654 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
655 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
656 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
657 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
658 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
659 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
660 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
662 There is a new `path:` search prefix
664 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
665 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
666 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
667 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
670 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
672 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
673 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
674 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
675 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
676 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
677 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
678 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
683 Notmuch database upgrade
685 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
686 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
687 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
688 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
689 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
690 released version of Notmuch before now.
692 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
694 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
695 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
696 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
697 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
699 Message header parsing changes
701 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
702 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
703 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
704 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
705 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
706 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
708 Command-Line Interface
709 ----------------------
711 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
713 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
715 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
717 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
719 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
721 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
722 user does not want it.
724 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
726 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
727 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
728 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
729 support formatted output.
731 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
733 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
734 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
735 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
743 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
744 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
745 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
746 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
747 `~/.emacs` with these.
749 Changed format for saved searches
751 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
752 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
753 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
754 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
757 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
758 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
759 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
760 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
762 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
763 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
764 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
766 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
767 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
768 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
769 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
770 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
772 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
774 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
775 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
776 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
778 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
780 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
781 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
782 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
783 message had been unread).
785 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
786 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
787 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
788 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
790 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
791 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
792 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
794 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
795 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
796 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
797 to tags already present.
801 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
802 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
803 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
804 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
805 these differ from each other.
806 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
808 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
810 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
811 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
812 for these Emacs versions.
814 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
816 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
817 newlines before calling notmuch count.
819 Bug fixes for sender identities
821 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
822 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
823 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
825 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
827 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
828 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
829 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
830 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
832 Reply pushes mark before signature
834 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
835 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
836 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
838 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
840 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
841 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
847 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
848 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
850 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
851 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
852 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
853 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
855 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
856 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
857 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
858 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
859 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
861 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
863 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
864 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
866 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
867 =========================
869 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
870 ---------------------------------------
872 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
873 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
874 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
875 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
876 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
877 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
878 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
882 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
883 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
885 Command-Line Interface
886 ----------------------
888 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
890 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
891 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
892 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
893 print for each message.
895 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
896 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
897 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
898 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
900 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
902 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
903 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
904 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
906 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
908 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
909 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
910 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
911 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
913 `notmuch compact` command
915 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
916 functionality through a more convenient interface than
917 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
918 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
919 move the compacted database into place.
924 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
926 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
927 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
928 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
929 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
930 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
931 and multiple threads.
935 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
937 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
938 search, show and tree mode itself)
940 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
943 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
944 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
946 Customising `notmuch-tree`
948 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
949 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
950 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
951 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
952 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
953 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
954 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
956 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
958 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
959 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
960 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
961 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
962 thread when the search was performed.
964 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
966 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
967 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
968 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
970 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
972 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
973 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
976 Built-in help improvements
978 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
979 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
980 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
982 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
984 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
985 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
986 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
988 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
990 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
991 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
993 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
995 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
996 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
997 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
998 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1000 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1002 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1003 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1004 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1005 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1007 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1009 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1010 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1011 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1013 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1015 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1016 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1017 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1019 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1021 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1022 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1023 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1024 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1025 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1027 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1029 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1030 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1031 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1032 the body part of the message.
1037 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1038 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1039 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1041 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1042 =========================
1044 Command-Line Interface
1045 ----------------------
1047 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1049 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1050 folder and notmuch index.
1052 `notmuch count --batch` option
1054 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1055 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1057 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1059 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1060 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1061 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1064 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1066 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1067 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1068 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1069 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1070 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1073 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1075 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1076 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1078 Top level option to specify configuration file
1080 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1081 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1083 Bash command-line completion
1085 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1086 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1087 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1088 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1089 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1090 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1091 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1092 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1093 bash-completion package.
1095 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1100 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1102 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1103 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1104 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1105 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1106 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1107 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1108 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1109 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1111 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1113 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1114 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1115 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1117 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1119 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1120 previous thread in the search results.
1122 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1124 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1125 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1127 Faster search and show
1129 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1130 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1131 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1132 threads should show faster.
1136 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1137 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1138 in question was now removed from this release.
1143 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1144 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1149 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1151 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1152 ===========================
1157 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1159 Internal test framework changes
1160 -------------------------------
1162 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1163 being unimplemented.
1165 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1166 ===========================
1168 Internal test framework changes
1169 -------------------------------
1171 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1172 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1174 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1175 =========================
1180 Date range search support
1182 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1183 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1184 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1185 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1186 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1189 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1191 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1192 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1193 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1194 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1195 but may be removed in a future release.
1197 Command-Line Interface
1198 ----------------------
1200 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1202 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1203 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1205 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1207 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1208 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1209 officially deprecated.
1211 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1213 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1214 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1215 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1217 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1219 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1220 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1223 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1224 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1225 dump/restore format.
1227 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1229 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1230 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1231 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1233 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1235 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1236 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1237 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1239 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1241 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1242 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1243 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1244 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1249 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1251 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1252 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1253 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1254 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1256 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1258 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1259 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1260 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1261 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1262 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1263 the behavior of this, see
1264 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1265 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1267 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1268 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1269 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1271 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1273 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1274 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1277 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1279 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1280 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1281 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1282 simply displayed in place of the message.
1284 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1286 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1287 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1289 Improved text/calendar content handling
1291 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1292 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1293 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1294 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1296 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1298 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1299 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1300 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1301 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1303 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1305 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1306 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1307 for HTML email containing images.
1309 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1311 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1313 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1315 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1318 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1320 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1321 the point where it was.
1323 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1325 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1326 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1327 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1328 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1329 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1331 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1333 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1334 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1335 thread instead of the message id.
1337 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1338 -----------------------------
1340 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1341 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1342 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1343 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1344 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1345 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1346 further details and installation.
1351 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1353 Internal test framework changes
1354 -------------------------------
1356 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1358 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1359 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1360 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1361 can result in buggy behavior.
1363 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1364 =========================
1369 Maildir tag synchronization
1371 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1372 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1373 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1374 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1375 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1376 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1379 Command-Line Interface
1380 ----------------------
1382 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1383 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1384 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1385 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1386 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1392 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1394 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1396 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1397 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1398 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1400 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1402 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1403 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1404 span multiple lines.
1406 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1408 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1409 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1410 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1411 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1412 inside the result or message.
1414 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1416 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1417 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1419 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1420 user-specified formatting
1422 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1423 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1424 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1425 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1426 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1428 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1429 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1431 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1432 ===========================
1437 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1438 compilation error for this contrib package.
1440 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1441 ===========================
1446 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1448 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1449 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1450 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1451 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1453 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1454 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1457 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1458 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1459 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1460 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1463 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1465 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1468 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1469 =========================
1471 Command-Line Interface
1472 ----------------------
1476 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1477 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1478 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1479 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1481 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1482 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1483 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1484 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1488 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1489 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1491 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1492 tag in your query, for example:
1494 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1496 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1497 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1499 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1500 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1502 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1504 Raw show format changes
1506 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1507 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1508 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1509 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1510 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1511 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1512 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1513 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1515 Listing configuration items
1517 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1523 Changes to tagging interface
1525 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1526 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1527 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1528 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1529 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1530 for more information.
1532 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1533 may need to update in custom configurations.
1535 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1537 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1538 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1539 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1540 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1543 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1544 -----------------------------
1546 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1547 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1548 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1549 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1550 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1551 contrib/ from now on.
1556 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1557 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1559 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1560 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1562 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1563 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1564 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1566 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1567 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1569 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1570 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1571 returning the new database object or directory object.
1578 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1579 compatible with go 1.
1581 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1582 =========================
1584 Command-Line Interface
1585 ----------------------
1589 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1590 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1591 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1592 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1594 Mail store folder/file ignore
1596 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1597 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1598 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1600 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1601 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1603 Unified help and manual pages
1605 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1606 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1609 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1611 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1612 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1620 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1621 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1622 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1623 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1625 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1627 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1628 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1630 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1633 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1634 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1635 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1637 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1639 should be changed to:
1641 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1643 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1645 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1646 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1648 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1650 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1651 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1652 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1653 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1654 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1655 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1659 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1660 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1661 of Mailing List Archives.
1663 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1665 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1666 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1669 Show view archiving key binding changes
1671 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1672 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1673 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1674 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1675 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1678 Support text/calendar MIME type
1680 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1683 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1685 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1686 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1687 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1688 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1690 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1692 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1693 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1694 messages blue by default in the search view.
1698 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1699 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1706 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1709 Python bindings changes
1710 -----------------------
1712 Python 3.2 compatibility
1714 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1716 Added missing unicode conversions
1718 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1719 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1720 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1725 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1727 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1728 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1729 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1730 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1731 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1733 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1734 ===========================
1739 Fix error handling in python bindings
1741 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1742 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1743 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1744 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1746 Quote MML tags in replies
1748 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1749 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1750 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1751 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1752 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1753 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1754 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1755 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1757 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1758 =========================
1760 Command-Line Interface
1761 ----------------------
1765 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1766 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1767 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1768 importing new messages into the database.
1770 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1772 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1773 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1774 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1779 Automatic tag query optimization
1781 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1782 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1783 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1785 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1787 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1788 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1789 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1794 Reduction of memory leaks
1796 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1797 and fixed in this release.
1804 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1805 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1806 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1809 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1811 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1812 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1813 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1816 Improvements in saved search management
1818 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1819 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1820 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1822 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1824 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1825 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1826 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1828 New face for crypto parts headers
1830 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1831 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1832 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1835 Use space as default thousands separator
1837 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1838 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1839 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1841 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1842 buttonized id: links
1844 New function notmuch-show-advance
1846 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1847 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1848 be bound to SPC with:
1850 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1852 Various performance improvements
1857 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1858 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1861 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1862 ===========================
1867 Fix crash in python bindings
1869 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1870 for some, but not all users.
1872 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1873 ===========================
1878 Fix `--help` argument
1880 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1881 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1882 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1884 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1885 =========================
1887 New build and testing features
1888 ------------------------------
1890 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1891 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1892 prerequisites is improved.
1894 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1896 New command-line features
1897 -------------------------
1899 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1901 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1902 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1905 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1907 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1908 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1909 favour of using stdout.
1911 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1913 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1914 limit the number of results shown.
1916 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1918 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1919 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1922 New emacs UI features
1923 ---------------------
1925 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1927 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1928 starting with "tag:".
1930 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1932 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1933 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1935 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1937 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1939 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1941 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1942 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1947 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1949 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1951 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1952 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1953 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1954 requires a database rebuild:
1956 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1957 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1959 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1961 New collection of add-on tools
1962 ------------------------------
1964 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1965 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1966 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1969 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1971 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1972 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1973 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1975 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1976 ========================
1978 New, general features
1979 ---------------------
1981 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1983 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1984 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1985 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1986 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1987 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1994 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1995 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1997 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2001 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2002 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2003 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2006 Python bindings changes
2007 -----------------------
2009 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2011 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2012 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2013 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2014 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2015 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2016 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2018 Ruby bindings changes
2019 ---------------------
2021 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2022 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2023 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2024 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2029 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2031 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2032 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2034 Reply formatting cleanup
2035 ------------------------
2037 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2038 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2040 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2041 ========================
2043 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2045 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2046 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2047 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2048 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2051 Improved Build system portability
2053 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2054 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2055 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2057 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2059 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2061 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2063 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2064 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2065 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2067 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2068 ========================
2070 Vim interface improvements
2071 --------------------------
2073 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2075 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2076 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2077 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2078 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2079 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2081 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2083 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2084 * fix compose temp file name
2086 Python Bindings changes
2087 -----------------------
2089 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2091 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2092 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2094 Build-System improvements
2095 -------------------------
2097 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2099 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2102 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2103 ==========================
2108 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2110 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2111 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2113 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2114 =======================
2116 New, general features
2117 ---------------------
2119 Folder-based searching
2121 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2122 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2123 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2127 For example, one might use things such as:
2133 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2134 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2136 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2137 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2138 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2139 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2141 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2142 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2143 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2146 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2147 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2149 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2151 Support for PGP/MIME
2153 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2154 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2155 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2157 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2159 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2160 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2162 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2163 notmuch will receive these tags.
2165 New command-line features
2166 -------------------------
2168 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2170 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2171 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2173 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2175 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2176 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2177 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2179 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2181 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2182 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2183 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2184 which parts a signature part applies).
2186 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2188 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2189 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2190 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2191 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2192 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2195 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2197 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2198 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2199 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2200 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2201 by translating it internally to the new call.
2203 Performance improvements
2204 ------------------------
2206 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2208 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2209 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2210 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2212 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2213 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2215 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2217 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2218 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2219 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2221 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2222 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2223 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2224 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2226 Faster initial indexing
2228 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2229 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2230 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2232 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2234 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2235 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2236 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2237 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2239 New emacs-interface features
2240 ----------------------------
2242 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2244 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2245 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2246 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2247 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2248 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2249 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2251 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2253 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2254 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2255 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2256 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2258 User-selectable From address
2260 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2261 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2262 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2263 will prompt for the from address to use.
2265 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2266 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2267 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2269 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2270 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2271 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2274 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2276 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2277 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2279 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2281 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2283 ----- Original Message -----
2285 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2286 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2287 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2288 citations work much like conventional citations.
2290 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2292 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2293 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2294 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2295 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2296 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2298 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2299 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2301 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2303 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2304 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2305 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2307 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2309 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2310 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2311 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2312 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2313 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2315 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2317 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2320 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2322 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2324 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2326 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2329 Vim interface improvements
2330 --------------------------
2332 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2334 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2335 * Implementing archive in show view
2336 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2337 * Add delete commands
2340 Bindings improvements
2341 ---------------------
2343 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2345 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2346 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2348 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2350 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2354 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2355 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2356 `list(Messages)` works now
2357 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2359 These allow, for example:
2361 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2363 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2365 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2371 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2373 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2376 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2378 New build-system features
2379 -------------------------
2381 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2383 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2384 the configure script from some other directory:
2391 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2393 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2394 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2395 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2396 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2397 manual invocation of configure.
2399 New test-suite feature
2400 ----------------------
2402 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2404 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2405 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2406 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2407 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2408 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2411 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2413 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2414 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2415 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2416 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2417 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2418 are updated to take advantage of this.
2420 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2422 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2423 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2424 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2425 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2431 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2433 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2434 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2435 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2437 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2439 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2441 to:user@elsewhere.com
2443 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2445 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2447 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2449 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2450 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2451 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2454 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2455 from the Received headers in some cases
2457 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2458 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2460 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2462 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2464 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2466 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2467 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2468 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2470 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2471 -------------------------
2473 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2475 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2476 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2477 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2479 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2481 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2482 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2483 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2486 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2488 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2489 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2490 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2491 fixed to avoid this bug.
2493 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2495 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2496 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2498 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2499 ========================
2501 New, general features
2502 ---------------------
2504 Maildir-flag synchronization
2506 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2507 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2516 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2518 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2519 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2520 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2521 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2523 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2524 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2525 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2526 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2529 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2531 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2532 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2533 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2535 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2536 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2538 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2539 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2541 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2542 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2543 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2545 New library features
2546 --------------------
2548 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2550 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2551 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2552 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2553 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2555 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2556 message with the new function:
2558 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2560 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2561 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2562 over all available filenames for a given message.
2564 New command-line features
2565 -------------------------
2567 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2569 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2570 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2571 access to the mail store itself.
2573 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2574 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2575 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2576 name of a script containing:
2578 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2580 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2581 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2587 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2589 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2591 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2593 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2594 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2595 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2596 now produces nothing).
2598 Emacs interface improvements
2599 ----------------------------
2601 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2603 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2605 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2607 Display current thread subject in a header line
2609 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2611 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2613 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2614 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2615 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2616 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2617 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2618 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2619 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2621 Vim interface improvements
2622 --------------------------
2624 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2626 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2627 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2633 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2635 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2636 ========================
2638 New command-line features
2639 -------------------------
2641 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2643 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2644 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2645 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2647 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2648 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2649 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2650 scripts. For example:
2652 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2653 <operations-on> "$file"
2656 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2658 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2659 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2660 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2661 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2662 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2663 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2665 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2667 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2668 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2669 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2670 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2672 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2674 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2675 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2676 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2677 default rather than Bcc.
2679 New library features
2680 --------------------
2682 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2684 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2685 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2690 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2692 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2693 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2694 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2695 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2696 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2697 notmuch customize interface.
2699 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2701 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2702 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2703 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2704 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2706 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2708 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2709 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2710 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2711 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2713 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2715 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2716 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2717 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2718 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2719 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2720 notmuch customize interface.
2722 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2724 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2725 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2726 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2727 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2728 notmuch customize interface.
2730 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2732 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2733 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2734 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2735 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2738 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2740 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2741 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2742 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2745 New build-system features
2746 -------------------------
2748 Various portability fixes have been applied
2750 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2751 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2752 more portable than ever before.
2754 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2756 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2757 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2758 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2760 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2761 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2762 automatically run ldconfig.
2764 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2765 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2766 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2768 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2769 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2770 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2771 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2773 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2775 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2776 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2777 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2778 used in the resulting Makefile.
2780 New test-suite features
2781 -----------------------
2783 New modularization of test suite
2785 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2786 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2787 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2788 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2789 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2790 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2791 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2792 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2794 New testing of emacs interface
2796 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2797 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2798 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2799 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2800 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2801 database via the FCC setting.
2806 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2808 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2809 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2810 persistent error of the form:
2812 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2814 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2815 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2817 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2819 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2820 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2821 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2823 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2825 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2826 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2827 parsing the notmuch results).
2829 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2831 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2834 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2835 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2836 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2841 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2843 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2844 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2845 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2846 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2847 the emacs interface.
2849 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2851 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2852 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2853 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2855 Python-binding fixes
2856 --------------------
2858 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2860 Debian-specific fixes
2861 ---------------------
2863 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2865 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2866 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2867 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2870 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2871 ==========================
2876 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2878 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2879 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2880 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2881 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2883 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2885 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2886 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2887 want notmuch to crash.
2892 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2894 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2895 directory does not exist
2900 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2902 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2903 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2905 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2906 ========================
2908 New command-line features
2909 -------------------------
2911 User-configurable tags for new messages
2913 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2914 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2915 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2916 to specify this value.
2918 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2920 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2921 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2922 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2924 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2926 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2927 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2929 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2931 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2932 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2933 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2934 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2935 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2938 Indication of author names that match a search
2940 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2941 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2942 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2943 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2944 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2945 messages in the thread are listed first.
2947 New: Python bindings
2948 --------------------
2950 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2951 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2952 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2953 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2955 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2956 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2957 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2960 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2961 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2962 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2964 Emacs interface improvements
2965 ----------------------------
2967 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2969 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2970 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2971 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2972 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2973 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2974 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2975 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2976 but without any of the disadvantages).
2978 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2979 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2980 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2983 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2984 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2985 instead running something like:
2987 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2989 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2990 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2991 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2994 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2996 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2997 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2998 tweaked by the user.
3000 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3001 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3002 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3005 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3006 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3007 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3010 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3012 This support currently relies on an external program,
3013 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3014 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3015 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3016 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3017 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3020 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3021 notmuch) is available via:
3023 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3025 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3026 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3027 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3029 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3031 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3032 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3033 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3034 making this automatic in a future release.
3036 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3038 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3039 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3040 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3041 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3042 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3043 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3046 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3048 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3049 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3050 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3052 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3054 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3055 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3056 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3058 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3059 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3060 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3061 other representation.
3063 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3064 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3067 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3069 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3070 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3071 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3073 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3074 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3075 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3077 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3079 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3080 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3081 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3082 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3083 to display the search result.
3085 More flexible handling of header visibility
3087 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3088 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3089 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3090 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3091 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3092 with the 'h' keybinding.
3094 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3095 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3096 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3098 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3100 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3102 Customizable formatting of search results
3104 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3105 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3106 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3108 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3110 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3112 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3117 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3119 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3120 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3121 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3122 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3128 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3130 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3131 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3133 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3135 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3136 accept are now all accepted.
3141 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3143 Better display of output from failed tests
3145 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3146 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3148 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3149 ========================
3151 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3152 detailed release notes this time!
3154 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3155 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3157 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3158 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3159 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3160 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3167 Better guessing of From: header
3169 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3170 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3171 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3172 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3173 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3176 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3178 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3179 guaranteed to match all messages.
3181 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3183 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3184 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3185 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3186 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3187 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3190 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3193 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3194 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3195 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3196 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3201 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3203 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3204 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3205 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3206 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3208 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3210 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3212 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3213 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3214 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3216 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3218 Previously, the user might see:
3220 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3224 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3226 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3227 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3228 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3229 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3231 Emacs client features
3232 ---------------------
3234 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3236 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3237 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3238 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3239 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3240 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3242 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3245 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3246 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3247 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3248 search with the '*' binding.
3250 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3252 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3253 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3256 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3258 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3259 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3260 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3262 Build-system features
3263 ---------------------
3265 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3267 Add support to configure for many standard options
3269 We include actual support for:
3271 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3273 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3275 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3276 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3278 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3279 separate "make install-emacs"
3281 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3283 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3284 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3285 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3287 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3290 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3291 ========================
3293 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3295 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3296 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3298 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3299 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3300 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3301 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3302 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3303 tags from messages in a thread.
3310 indent-tabs-mode: nil