1 Notmuch 0.38.2 (2023-12-01)
2 ===========================
7 Make sorting of string maps lexicographic on (key,value) pairs. This
8 avoids some test failures due to variation in message property output
14 Avoid extra separators after the last address in `notmuch-emacs-mua`.
17 Notmuch 0.38.1 (2023-10-26)
18 ===========================
23 Report parse errors in config files.
28 Fix image toggling for Emacs >= 29.1.
33 Fix syntax error in script.
35 Notmuch 0.38 (2023-09-12)
36 =========================
41 Support relative lastmod queries (see notmuch-sexp-queries(7) and
42 notmuch-search-terms(7) for details).
44 Support indexing of designated attachments as text (see
45 notmuch-config(1) for details).
50 Add options --offset and --limit to notmuch-show(1).
55 New commands notmuch-search-edit-search and notmuch-tree-edit-search.
57 Introduce notmuch-tree-outline-mode.
59 Some compatibility fixes for Emacs 29. At least one issue (hiding
60 images) remains in 0.38.
62 Support completion when piping to external command.
64 Fix regression in updating tag display introduced by 0.37.
69 Fix bug creating database when database.path is not set.
71 Incremental performance improvements for message deletion.
73 Catch Xapian exceptions when deleting messages.
75 Sync removed message properties to the database.
77 Replace use of thread-unsafe Query::MatchAll in the infix query
83 Be more careful when clearing the results directory.
88 Use `database_open_with_config`, and provide compatible path search
91 Bugfix for query.get_sort
96 Support testing installed version of notmuch.
98 Adapt to some breaking changes in glib handling of init files.
100 Replace OpenPGP key used in test suite.
105 Update signatures for performance test corpus.
107 Notmuch 0.37 (2022-08-21)
108 =========================
113 Fix uninitialized field in message objects.
115 Improve exception handling and error propagation for message objects.
120 Add one sided lastmod ranges for sexp queries.
122 Expand macro parameters inside regex and wildcard modifiers.
124 Command Line Interface
125 ----------------------
127 `notmuch help` now works for external commands.
129 `NOTMUCH_CONFIG` is now passed to external commands and hooks.
131 Promote the development tool `nmbug` to a user facing tool
132 `notmuch-git`. See notmuch-git(1) for details.
137 The function `notmuch-mua-mail` now moves point depending on the
140 Restrict what mime types are inlined in replies and on refresh.
142 The functions in notmuch-query.el are now obsolete and may be removed
143 in a future version of Notmuch.
145 Add some controls for lazy display of message bodies (See "Dealing
146 with large messages and threads" in the notmuch-emacs documentation).
148 Allow the user to select (with '%') a different duplicate message file
151 Use `message-dont-reply-to-names` in `notmuch-message-mode`.
153 Support custom header-line format for notmuch-show mode.
155 Notmuch 0.36 (2022-04-25)
156 =========================
161 Add the `sexp` prefix to the infix (traditional) query parser. This
162 allows specific subqueries to be parsed by the sexp parser (with
163 appropropriate quoting). See `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
165 Add another heuristic to regexp fields to prevent phrase parsing of
166 bracketed sub-expressions.
168 Command Line Interface
169 ----------------------
171 Envelope from ("From ") headers are now escaped as X-Envelope-From: in
172 input to `notmuch-insert`. This prevents creating mbox files when
173 calling `notmuch-insert` from e.g. `postfix`.
175 Python (CFFI) Bindings
176 ----------------------
178 Use the `config_pairs` API in ConfigIterator. This returns all
179 matching key-value pairs, not just those that happen to be stored in
185 Reorganize documention for `notmuch-config`. Add a few links from
191 Bind the usual undo key sequences to new command
192 "notmuch-tag-undo". This allows transparent undo of tagging
198 Fix smime.4 with newer gmime. Unset `XDG_DATA_HOME` and `MAILDIR` for tests.
200 New add-on tool: notmuch-web
201 -----------------------------
203 The new devel/ tool `notmuch-web` is a very thin web client. It
204 supports a full search interface for one user: there is no facility
205 for multiple users provided today. See the notmuch-web README file
206 for more information.
208 Be careful about running it on a network-connected system: it will
209 expose a web interface that requires no authentication but exposes
212 Notmuch 0.35 (2022-02-06)
213 =========================
218 Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
220 Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
222 Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
223 `built_with.sexp_queries`.
225 Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
227 Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
232 Improve handling of leading/trailing punctation and space for
235 Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
237 Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
238 `show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
243 Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
245 Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
248 Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
249 third party completion frameworks.
251 Make citation formating more robust against whitespace.
253 Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
255 Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
256 signed and/or encrypted messages.
258 Add notmuch-logo.svg and use it in notmuch-hello view, replacing
261 Make header line in show buffers optional.
263 Add customizable names for search buffers.
268 Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
270 Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
271 installed version of notmuch.
273 Ignore more configure options.
278 Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
281 Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
286 Add `matched` property to message objects.
288 Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
289 deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
295 Use `database.mail_root` for path completion in bash/zsh.
297 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
298 ===========================
303 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
304 xapian/ subdirectory.
306 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
307 --------------------------
309 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
310 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
312 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
313 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
315 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
318 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
319 ===========================
324 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
325 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
326 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
328 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
329 --------------------------
331 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
332 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
334 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
335 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
336 and database location options as the library does.
338 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
340 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
341 ===========================
346 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
347 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
348 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
349 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
350 status returns for the same 3 functions.
352 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
353 =========================
358 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
359 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
360 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
361 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
362 s-expression query support.
367 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
372 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
374 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
376 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
378 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
380 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
381 ===========================
386 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
388 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
389 ===========================
394 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
395 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
398 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
399 =========================
404 Correct documentation about transactions.
406 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
407 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
409 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
414 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
420 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
421 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
422 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
424 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
426 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
428 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
430 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
432 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
434 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
437 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
442 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
443 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
444 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
445 split, following an old library API change.
450 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
455 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
457 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
459 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
460 ===========================
465 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
468 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
471 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
472 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
477 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
479 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
480 ===========================
485 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
491 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
496 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
501 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
506 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
507 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
509 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
510 ===========================
515 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
516 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
517 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
519 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
520 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
521 database in a pre-new hook.
523 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
524 default worked only in "notmuch config".
529 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
530 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
532 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
533 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
534 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
536 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
537 =========================
542 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
543 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
544 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
545 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
546 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
547 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
548 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
549 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
550 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
551 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
552 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
557 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
558 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
560 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
561 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
562 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
563 - `notmuch_config_get`
565 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
566 now exposed (and generalized).
568 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
569 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
570 session has been fixed.
572 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
573 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
578 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
579 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
581 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
582 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
587 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
588 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
589 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
590 when prompting for senders.
592 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
593 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
596 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
598 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
600 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
601 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
602 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
603 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
604 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
605 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
606 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
608 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
609 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
611 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
612 you should change it to:
613 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
615 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
616 ===========================
621 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
626 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
628 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
629 ===========================
634 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
639 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
644 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
646 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
647 ===========================
652 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
653 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
655 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
656 ===========================
661 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
666 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
667 with a C++ header for some compilers.
669 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
671 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
672 =========================
677 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
678 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
679 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
681 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
683 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
685 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
687 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
690 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
692 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
693 search, show and tree mode)
695 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
698 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
701 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
702 always be newest first.
707 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
708 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
709 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
715 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
716 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
717 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
718 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
720 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
721 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
722 non-status providing versions.
724 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
725 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
727 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
728 promised in the documentation.
733 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
734 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
735 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
740 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
741 development version).
746 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
751 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
753 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
754 =========================
759 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
760 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
761 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
764 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
770 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
771 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
772 notmuch-properties(7)).
777 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
778 has protected headers (see
779 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
780 notmuch-properties(7)).
785 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
787 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
788 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
794 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
797 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
798 ===========================
803 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
805 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
810 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
812 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
813 ===========================
818 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
819 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
821 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
822 ===========================
827 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
829 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
830 =========================
835 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
836 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
839 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
840 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
841 the set of headers to be indexed.
843 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
846 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
847 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
848 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
851 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
852 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
853 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
855 Command Line Interface
856 ----------------------
858 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
861 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
863 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
864 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
865 more details about what is included there. This status includes
866 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
871 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
872 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
874 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
876 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
878 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
880 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
882 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
885 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
887 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
888 and may be removed in a future release.
890 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
896 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
898 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
899 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
904 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
905 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
906 cryptography support.
911 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
912 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
913 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
915 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
916 ===========================
918 Command line interface
919 ----------------------
921 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
922 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
924 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
925 ===========================
930 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
931 by message properties.
936 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
938 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
939 ===========================
944 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
949 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
950 now needed to build this documentation.
952 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
953 ===========================
958 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
959 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
961 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
962 =========================
969 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
970 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
971 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
972 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
973 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
976 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
978 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
979 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
980 correct encoding for such messages.
982 Command Line Interface
983 ----------------------
985 Support relative database paths
987 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
988 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
989 to $HOME of the invoking user.
994 Improve stderr handling
996 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
997 needed on e.g. macOS.
999 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
1001 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
1006 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
1007 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
1013 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
1014 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
1020 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
1021 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
1024 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
1025 =========================
1030 Add support for thread:{} queries
1032 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
1033 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
1034 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
1036 Command Line Interface
1037 ----------------------
1039 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
1041 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
1043 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
1045 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
1046 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
1047 does not have to be available during message receipt.
1052 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
1058 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
1059 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
1061 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
1062 ===========================
1067 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
1069 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
1070 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
1071 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
1073 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
1075 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
1076 related abort in `notmuch show`.
1078 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
1079 ===========================
1084 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
1085 better late than never.
1088 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
1089 =========================
1091 Command Line Interface
1092 ----------------------
1094 Support for re-indexing existing messages
1096 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
1097 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
1098 change the way specific messages are indexed.
1100 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
1101 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
1102 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
1104 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
1106 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
1108 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
1110 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
1111 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
1112 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
1113 the setting of `new.tags`.
1115 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
1117 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
1119 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
1121 This inserts into the top level folder.
1123 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
1125 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
1127 New option --output=address for notmuch address
1129 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
1131 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
1133 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
1134 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
1135 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
1137 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
1142 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
1144 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
1145 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
1146 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
1147 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
1148 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
1149 config set index.decrypt true".
1151 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
1152 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
1153 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
1154 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
1155 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
1156 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
1157 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
1158 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
1160 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
1161 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
1162 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
1163 this feature without considering the security of your index.
1168 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
1170 Use make-process when available
1172 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
1173 notmuch command without using temporary files.
1178 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
1180 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
1181 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
1182 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
1183 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
1185 New functions to count files
1187 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
1188 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
1190 New function to remove properties
1192 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
1193 drop all properties with a common pattern:
1194 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
1196 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
1198 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
1199 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
1200 possibility of NULL was not documented.
1202 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
1204 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
1205 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
1206 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
1207 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
1208 operator may decide to change from message to message.
1215 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
1216 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
1217 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
1223 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
1225 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
1226 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
1228 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
1230 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
1232 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
1234 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
1239 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
1240 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
1242 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
1243 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
1244 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
1245 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
1246 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
1247 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
1252 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
1254 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
1255 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
1256 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
1257 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
1259 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
1260 ===========================
1265 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
1266 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
1269 Command Line Interface
1270 ----------------------
1272 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
1273 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
1276 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
1277 ===========================
1279 Command Line Interface
1280 ----------------------
1282 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
1283 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
1288 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
1291 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
1292 ===========================
1297 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1300 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1301 =========================
1306 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1308 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1310 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1312 Command Line Interface
1313 ----------------------
1315 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1317 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1322 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1324 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1325 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1328 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1333 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1335 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1336 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1338 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1340 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1341 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1344 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1346 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1348 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1350 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1351 ===========================
1353 Command Line Interface
1354 ----------------------
1356 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1361 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1363 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1364 ===========================
1369 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1371 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1372 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1375 Command Line Interface
1376 ----------------------
1378 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1380 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1382 Fix bug in dump header
1384 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1385 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1386 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1391 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1393 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1394 =========================
1399 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1401 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1404 Command Line Interface
1405 ----------------------
1407 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1409 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1410 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1411 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1413 New default output format to 3
1415 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1416 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1417 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1418 default format changes.
1423 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1425 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1426 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1427 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1428 or tree view to resume.
1430 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1431 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1432 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1435 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1436 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1440 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1441 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1442 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1443 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1444 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1448 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1449 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1450 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1451 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1452 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1453 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1457 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1458 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1460 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1462 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1463 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1464 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1465 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1466 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1467 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1468 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1469 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1472 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1474 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1475 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1476 only tagged the current thread.)
1478 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1480 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1481 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1482 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1484 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1486 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1487 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1488 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1489 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1490 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1491 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1492 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1494 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1496 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1497 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1498 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1503 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1505 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1508 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1510 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1513 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1514 ===========================
1519 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1521 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1522 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1523 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1526 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1527 ===========================
1529 Command Line Interface
1530 ----------------------
1532 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1537 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1539 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1540 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1541 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1543 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1544 ===========================
1549 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1550 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1552 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1553 ===========================
1555 Command Line Interface
1556 ----------------------
1558 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1560 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1561 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1562 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1567 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1569 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1570 ===========================
1572 Command Line Interface
1573 ----------------------
1575 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1580 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1582 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1583 ===========================
1588 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1590 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1591 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1592 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1594 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1596 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1598 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1599 ===========================
1604 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1606 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1611 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1613 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1614 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1615 the original colours.
1617 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1618 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1620 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1622 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1623 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1624 bug, and hence the test.
1626 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1627 =========================
1629 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1630 ---------------------
1632 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1634 Support for single argument date: queries
1636 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1638 Support for blocking opens
1640 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1641 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1643 Support for named queries
1645 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1646 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1647 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1652 Message property API
1654 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1655 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1656 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1657 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1659 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1661 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1666 Support for compile time options
1668 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1669 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1672 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1674 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1675 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1676 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1677 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1678 scripts to ignore it.
1683 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1685 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1686 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1687 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1689 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1690 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1691 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1692 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1693 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1694 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1695 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1697 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1698 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1701 Make internal address completion customizable
1703 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1704 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1705 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1706 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1709 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1711 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1712 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1713 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1714 completion for the current buffer.
1716 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1717 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1718 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1722 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1723 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1724 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1725 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1726 will be added instead.
1728 Face customization is easier
1730 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1731 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1732 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1733 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1735 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1740 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1745 Go bindings moved to contrib
1747 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1749 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1751 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1752 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1754 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1756 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1757 ===========================
1764 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1765 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1767 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1769 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1771 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1772 ===========================
1777 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1779 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1784 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1789 Use `env` to locate perl.
1794 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1796 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1798 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1800 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1802 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1803 =========================
1810 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1811 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1813 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1815 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1816 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1817 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1822 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1823 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1824 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1826 Command Line Interface
1827 ----------------------
1829 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1831 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1836 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1841 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1843 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1844 parts are now included in replies.
1846 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1847 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1848 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1849 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1851 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1853 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1855 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1857 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1858 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1859 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1860 forwards only the current message.
1862 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1864 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1865 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1866 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1867 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1868 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1869 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1870 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1871 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1874 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1875 longer generate empty buffers
1877 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1878 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1879 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1880 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1881 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1883 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1885 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1888 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1890 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1893 Address completion improvements
1895 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1896 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1897 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1898 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1899 interactive address completion.
1901 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1903 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1904 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1905 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1910 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1911 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1912 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1918 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1919 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1920 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1921 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1922 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1923 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1925 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1926 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1927 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1928 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1929 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1930 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1932 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1933 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1935 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1936 =========================
1941 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1944 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1946 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1947 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1948 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1950 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1951 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1953 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1954 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1955 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1957 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1959 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1960 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1961 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1962 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1963 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1964 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1969 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1970 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1973 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1974 option to configure.
1976 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1978 Command Line Interface
1979 ----------------------
1981 Database revision tracking
1983 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1984 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1985 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1986 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1988 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1990 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1991 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1992 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1993 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1994 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1995 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1996 manual page for further information.
2001 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
2003 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
2004 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
2006 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
2008 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
2009 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
2010 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
2012 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
2014 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
2016 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
2017 customization as well.
2019 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
2021 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
2023 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
2025 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
2027 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
2028 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
2029 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
2030 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2032 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
2034 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
2035 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
2036 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
2037 this variable to 10000.
2042 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
2043 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
2045 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
2047 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
2048 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
2049 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
2050 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
2051 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
2052 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
2053 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
2054 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
2055 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
2058 Database revision tracking
2060 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
2061 query parser and the new function
2062 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
2064 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
2066 Deprecated functions
2068 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
2069 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
2070 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
2071 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
2076 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
2078 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
2079 ===========================
2084 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
2086 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
2087 ===========================
2092 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
2094 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
2095 =========================
2097 Command-Line Interface
2098 ----------------------
2100 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
2102 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
2103 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
2104 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
2106 Path to gpg is now configurable
2108 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
2109 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
2114 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
2116 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
2121 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
2126 Support messages without Message-IDs.
2131 Undeprecate single message mboxes
2133 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
2134 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
2136 New error logging facility
2138 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
2139 output formerly printed to stderr.
2141 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
2143 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
2145 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
2147 Fix for rounding of seconds
2152 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
2154 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
2155 documentation has been removed.
2157 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
2159 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
2160 some material from the relicensed wiki.
2165 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
2166 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
2167 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
2172 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
2173 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
2174 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
2175 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
2176 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
2177 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
2180 git checkout config origin/config
2182 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
2184 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
2185 =========================
2190 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
2191 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
2192 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
2193 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
2194 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
2195 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
2196 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
2198 Command-Line Interface
2199 ----------------------
2201 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
2203 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
2204 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
2205 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
2206 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
2207 script callers should still check the return value.
2209 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
2211 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
2212 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
2213 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
2214 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
2215 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
2216 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
2217 and returning success even if indexing fails).
2219 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
2221 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
2222 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
2223 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
2225 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
2227 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
2228 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
2229 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
2230 currently unmaintained.
2232 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
2234 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
2235 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
2236 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
2237 have at least `N` files associated with them.
2239 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
2241 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
2242 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
2243 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
2244 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
2245 count of duplicate addresses.
2250 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
2252 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
2253 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
2254 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
2257 Improved handling of the unread tag
2259 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
2260 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
2261 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
2262 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
2263 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
2264 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
2265 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
2267 Expanded default saved search settings
2269 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
2270 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
2272 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
2274 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
2275 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
2276 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
2278 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
2280 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
2281 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
2282 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
2283 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
2284 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
2285 the variable for details.
2290 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
2292 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2293 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2294 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2295 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2297 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2299 Previously, library users were required to call
2300 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2301 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2302 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2303 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2304 too out of date for that API.
2306 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2308 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2309 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2310 atomic section will be aborted.
2312 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2313 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2315 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2317 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2318 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2319 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2320 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2321 messages into the same thread.
2326 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2327 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2328 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2329 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2330 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2331 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2336 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2337 from the config file. Use something like:
2341 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2342 "footer": "</body></html>",
2351 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2356 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2357 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2358 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2360 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2361 ===========================
2366 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2368 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2370 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2372 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2373 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2375 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2377 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2380 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2381 ===========================
2383 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2388 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2390 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2392 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2394 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2396 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2402 Use --quick when starting emacs
2404 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2406 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2408 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2410 Command-Line Interface
2411 ----------------------
2413 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2414 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2419 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2421 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2422 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2424 Fix for phrase indexing
2426 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2427 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2428 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2433 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2435 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2436 unintentionally removed.
2438 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2439 =========================
2444 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2445 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2446 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2447 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2448 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2449 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2450 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2451 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2452 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2458 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2460 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2461 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2462 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2463 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2464 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2465 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2466 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2467 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2469 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2471 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2472 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2473 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2474 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2477 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2479 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2480 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2481 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2482 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2483 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2484 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2485 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2490 Notmuch database upgrade
2492 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2493 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2494 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2495 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2496 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2497 released version of Notmuch before now.
2499 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2501 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2502 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2503 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2504 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2506 Message header parsing changes
2508 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2509 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2510 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2511 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2512 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2513 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2515 Command-Line Interface
2516 ----------------------
2518 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2520 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2522 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2524 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2526 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2528 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2529 user does not want it.
2531 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2533 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2534 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2535 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2536 support formatted output.
2538 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2540 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2541 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2542 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2550 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2551 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2552 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2553 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2554 `~/.emacs` with these.
2556 Changed format for saved searches
2558 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2559 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2560 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2561 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2564 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2565 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2566 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2567 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2569 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2570 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2571 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2573 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2574 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2575 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2576 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2577 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2579 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2581 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2582 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2583 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2585 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2587 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2588 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2589 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2590 message had been unread).
2592 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2593 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2594 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2595 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2597 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2598 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2599 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2601 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2602 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2603 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2604 to tags already present.
2608 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2609 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2610 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2611 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2612 these differ from each other.
2613 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2615 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2617 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2618 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2619 for these Emacs versions.
2621 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2623 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2624 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2626 Bug fixes for sender identities
2628 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2629 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2630 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2632 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2634 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2635 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2636 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2637 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2639 Reply pushes mark before signature
2641 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2642 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2643 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2645 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2647 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2648 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2654 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2655 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2657 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2658 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2659 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2660 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2662 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2663 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2664 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2665 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2666 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2668 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2670 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2671 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2673 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2674 =========================
2676 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2677 ---------------------------------------
2679 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2680 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2681 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2682 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2683 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2684 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2685 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2689 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2690 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2692 Command-Line Interface
2693 ----------------------
2695 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2697 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2698 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2699 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2700 print for each message.
2702 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2703 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2704 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2705 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2707 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2709 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2710 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2711 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2713 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2715 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2716 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2717 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2718 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2720 `notmuch compact` command
2722 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2723 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2724 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2725 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2726 move the compacted database into place.
2731 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2733 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2734 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2735 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2736 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2737 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2738 and multiple threads.
2740 Using `notmuch-tree`
2742 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2744 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2745 search, show and tree mode itself)
2747 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2750 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2751 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2753 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2755 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2756 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2757 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2758 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2759 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2760 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2761 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2763 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2765 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2766 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2767 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2768 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2769 thread when the search was performed.
2771 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2773 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2774 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2775 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2777 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2779 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2780 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2783 Built-in help improvements
2785 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2786 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2787 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2789 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2791 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2792 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2793 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2795 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2797 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2798 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2800 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2802 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2803 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2804 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2805 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2807 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2809 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2810 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2811 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2812 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2814 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2816 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2817 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2818 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2820 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2822 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2823 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2824 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2826 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2828 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2829 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2830 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2831 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2832 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2834 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2836 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2837 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2838 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2839 the body part of the message.
2844 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2845 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2846 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2848 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2849 =========================
2851 Command-Line Interface
2852 ----------------------
2854 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2856 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2857 folder and notmuch index.
2859 `notmuch count --batch` option
2861 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2862 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2864 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2866 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2867 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2868 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2871 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2873 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2874 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2875 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2876 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2877 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2880 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2882 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2883 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2885 Top level option to specify configuration file
2887 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2888 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2890 Bash command-line completion
2892 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2893 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2894 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2895 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2896 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2897 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2898 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2899 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2900 bash-completion package.
2902 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2907 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2909 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2910 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2911 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2912 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2913 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2914 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2915 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2916 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2918 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2920 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2921 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2922 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2924 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2926 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2927 previous thread in the search results.
2929 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2931 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2932 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2934 Faster search and show
2936 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2937 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2938 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2939 threads should show faster.
2943 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2944 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2945 in question was now removed from this release.
2950 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2951 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2956 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2958 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2959 ===========================
2964 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2966 Internal test framework changes
2967 -------------------------------
2969 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2970 being unimplemented.
2972 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2973 ===========================
2975 Internal test framework changes
2976 -------------------------------
2978 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2979 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2981 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2982 =========================
2987 Date range search support
2989 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2990 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2991 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2992 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2993 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2996 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2998 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2999 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
3000 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
3001 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
3002 but may be removed in a future release.
3004 Command-Line Interface
3005 ----------------------
3007 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
3009 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
3010 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
3012 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
3014 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
3015 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
3016 officially deprecated.
3018 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
3020 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
3021 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
3022 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
3024 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
3026 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
3027 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
3030 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
3031 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
3032 dump/restore format.
3034 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
3036 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
3037 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
3038 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
3040 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
3042 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
3043 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
3044 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
3046 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
3048 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
3049 output separated by null characters rather than newline
3050 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
3051 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
3056 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
3058 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
3059 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
3060 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
3061 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
3063 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
3065 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
3066 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
3067 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
3068 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
3069 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
3070 the behavior of this, see
3071 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
3072 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
3074 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
3075 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
3076 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
3078 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
3080 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
3081 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
3084 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
3086 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
3087 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
3088 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
3089 simply displayed in place of the message.
3091 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
3093 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
3094 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
3096 Improved text/calendar content handling
3098 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
3099 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
3100 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
3101 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
3103 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
3105 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
3106 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
3107 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
3108 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
3110 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
3112 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
3113 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
3114 for HTML email containing images.
3116 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
3118 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
3120 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
3122 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
3125 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
3127 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
3128 the point where it was.
3130 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
3132 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
3133 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
3134 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
3135 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
3136 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
3138 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
3140 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
3141 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
3142 thread instead of the message id.
3144 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
3145 -----------------------------
3147 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
3148 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
3149 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
3150 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
3151 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
3152 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
3153 further details and installation.
3158 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
3160 Internal test framework changes
3161 -------------------------------
3163 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
3165 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
3166 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
3167 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
3168 can result in buggy behavior.
3170 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
3171 =========================
3176 Maildir tag synchronization
3178 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
3179 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
3180 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
3181 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
3182 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
3183 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
3186 Command-Line Interface
3187 ----------------------
3189 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
3190 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
3191 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
3192 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
3193 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
3199 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
3201 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
3203 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
3204 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
3205 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
3207 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
3209 It is now possible to embed newlines in
3210 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
3211 span multiple lines.
3213 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
3215 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
3216 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
3217 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
3218 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
3219 inside the result or message.
3221 Search now uses the JSON format internally
3223 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
3224 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
3226 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
3227 user-specified formatting
3229 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
3230 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
3231 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
3232 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
3233 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
3235 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
3236 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
3238 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
3239 ===========================
3244 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
3245 compilation error for this contrib package.
3247 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
3248 ===========================
3253 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
3255 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
3256 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
3257 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
3258 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
3260 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
3261 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
3264 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
3265 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
3266 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
3267 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
3270 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
3272 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
3275 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
3276 =========================
3278 Command-Line Interface
3279 ----------------------
3283 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
3284 for a reply message and full information about the original message
3285 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
3286 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
3288 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
3289 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
3290 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
3291 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3295 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3296 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3298 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3299 tag in your query, for example:
3301 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3303 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3304 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3306 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3307 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3309 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3311 Raw show format changes
3313 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3314 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3315 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3316 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3317 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3318 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3319 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3320 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3322 Listing configuration items
3324 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3330 Changes to tagging interface
3332 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3333 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3334 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3335 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3336 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3337 for more information.
3339 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3340 may need to update in custom configurations.
3342 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3344 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3345 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3346 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3347 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3350 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3351 -----------------------------
3353 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3354 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3355 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3356 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3357 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3358 contrib/ from now on.
3363 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3364 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3366 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3367 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3369 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3370 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3371 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3373 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3374 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3376 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3377 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3378 returning the new database object or directory object.
3385 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3386 compatible with go 1.
3388 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3389 =========================
3391 Command-Line Interface
3392 ----------------------
3396 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3397 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3398 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3399 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3401 Mail store folder/file ignore
3403 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3404 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3405 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3407 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3408 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3410 Unified help and manual pages
3412 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3413 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3416 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3418 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3419 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3427 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3428 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3429 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3430 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3432 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3434 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3435 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3437 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3440 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3441 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3442 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3444 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3446 should be changed to:
3448 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3450 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3452 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3453 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3455 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3457 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3458 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3459 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3460 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3461 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3462 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3466 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3467 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3468 of Mailing List Archives.
3470 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3472 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3473 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3476 Show view archiving key binding changes
3478 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3479 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3480 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3481 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3482 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3485 Support text/calendar MIME type
3487 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3490 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3492 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3493 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3494 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3495 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3497 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3499 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3500 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3501 messages blue by default in the search view.
3505 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3506 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3513 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3516 Python bindings changes
3517 -----------------------
3519 Python 3.2 compatibility
3521 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3523 Added missing unicode conversions
3525 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3526 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3527 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3532 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3534 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3535 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3536 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3537 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3538 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3540 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3541 ===========================
3546 Fix error handling in python bindings
3548 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3549 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3550 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3551 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3553 Quote MML tags in replies
3555 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3556 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3557 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3558 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3559 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3560 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3561 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3562 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3564 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3565 =========================
3567 Command-Line Interface
3568 ----------------------
3572 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3573 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3574 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3575 importing new messages into the database.
3577 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3579 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3580 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3581 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3586 Automatic tag query optimization
3588 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3589 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3590 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3592 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3594 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3595 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3596 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3601 Reduction of memory leaks
3603 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3604 and fixed in this release.
3611 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3612 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3613 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3616 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3618 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3619 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3620 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3623 Improvements in saved search management
3625 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3626 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3627 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3629 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3631 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3632 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3633 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3635 New face for crypto parts headers
3637 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3638 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3639 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3642 Use space as default thousands separator
3644 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3645 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3646 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3648 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3649 buttonized id: links
3651 New function notmuch-show-advance
3653 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3654 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3655 be bound to SPC with:
3657 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3659 Various performance improvements
3664 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3665 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3668 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3669 ===========================
3674 Fix crash in python bindings
3676 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3677 for some, but not all users.
3679 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3680 ===========================
3685 Fix `--help` argument
3687 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3688 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3689 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3691 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3692 =========================
3694 New build and testing features
3695 ------------------------------
3697 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3698 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3699 prerequisites is improved.
3701 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3703 New command-line features
3704 -------------------------
3706 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3708 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3709 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3712 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3714 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3715 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3716 favour of using stdout.
3718 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3720 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3721 limit the number of results shown.
3723 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3725 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3726 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3729 New emacs UI features
3730 ---------------------
3732 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3734 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3735 starting with "tag:".
3737 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3739 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3740 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3742 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3744 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3746 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3748 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3749 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3754 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3756 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3758 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3759 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3760 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3761 requires a database rebuild:
3763 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3764 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3766 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3768 New collection of add-on tools
3769 ------------------------------
3771 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3772 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3773 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3776 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3778 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3779 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3780 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3782 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3783 ========================
3785 New, general features
3786 ---------------------
3788 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3790 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3791 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3792 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3793 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3794 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3801 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3802 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3804 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3808 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3809 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3810 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3813 Python bindings changes
3814 -----------------------
3816 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3818 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3819 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3820 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3821 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3822 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3823 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3825 Ruby bindings changes
3826 ---------------------
3828 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3829 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3830 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3831 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3836 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3838 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3839 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3841 Reply formatting cleanup
3842 ------------------------
3844 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3845 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3847 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3848 ========================
3850 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3852 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3853 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3854 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3855 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3858 Improved Build system portability
3860 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3861 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3862 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3864 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3866 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3868 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3870 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3871 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3872 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3874 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3875 ========================
3877 Vim interface improvements
3878 --------------------------
3880 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3882 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3883 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3884 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3885 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3886 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3888 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3890 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3891 * fix compose temp file name
3893 Python Bindings changes
3894 -----------------------
3896 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3898 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3899 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3901 Build-System improvements
3902 -------------------------
3904 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3906 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3909 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3910 ==========================
3915 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3917 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3918 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3920 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3921 =======================
3923 New, general features
3924 ---------------------
3926 Folder-based searching
3928 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3929 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3930 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3934 For example, one might use things such as:
3940 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3941 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3943 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3944 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3945 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3946 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3948 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3949 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3950 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3953 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3954 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3956 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3958 Support for PGP/MIME
3960 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3961 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3962 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3964 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3966 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3967 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3969 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3970 notmuch will receive these tags.
3972 New command-line features
3973 -------------------------
3975 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3977 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3978 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3980 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3982 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3983 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3984 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3986 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3988 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3989 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3990 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3991 which parts a signature part applies).
3993 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3995 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3996 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3997 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3998 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3999 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
4002 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
4004 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
4005 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
4006 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
4007 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
4008 by translating it internally to the new call.
4010 Performance improvements
4011 ------------------------
4013 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
4015 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
4016 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
4017 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
4019 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
4020 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
4022 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
4024 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
4025 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
4026 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
4028 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
4029 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
4030 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
4031 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
4033 Faster initial indexing
4035 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
4036 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
4037 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
4039 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
4041 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
4042 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
4043 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
4044 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
4046 New emacs-interface features
4047 ----------------------------
4049 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
4051 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
4052 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
4053 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
4054 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
4055 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
4056 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
4058 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
4060 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
4061 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
4062 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
4063 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
4065 User-selectable From address
4067 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
4068 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
4069 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
4070 will prompt for the from address to use.
4072 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
4073 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
4074 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
4076 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
4077 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
4078 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
4081 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
4083 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
4084 its parent, the subject is not shown.
4086 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
4088 When a message contains a line looking something like:
4090 ----- Original Message -----
4092 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
4093 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
4094 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
4095 citations work much like conventional citations.
4097 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
4099 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
4100 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
4101 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
4102 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
4103 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
4105 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
4106 Notmuch After Tag Hook
4108 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
4110 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
4111 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
4112 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
4114 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
4116 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
4117 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
4118 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
4119 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
4120 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
4122 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
4124 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
4127 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
4129 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
4131 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
4133 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
4136 Vim interface improvements
4137 --------------------------
4139 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
4141 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
4142 * Implementing archive in show view
4143 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
4144 * Add delete commands
4147 Bindings improvements
4148 ---------------------
4150 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
4152 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
4153 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
4155 Python bindings have been updated and extended
4157 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
4161 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
4162 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
4163 `list(Messages)` works now
4164 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
4166 These allow, for example:
4168 if msg1 == msg2: ...
4170 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
4172 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
4178 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
4180 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
4183 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
4185 New build-system features
4186 -------------------------
4188 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
4190 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
4191 the configure script from some other directory:
4198 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
4200 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
4201 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
4202 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
4203 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
4204 manual invocation of configure.
4206 New test-suite feature
4207 ----------------------
4209 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
4211 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
4212 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
4213 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
4214 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
4215 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
4218 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
4220 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
4221 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
4222 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
4223 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
4224 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
4225 are updated to take advantage of this.
4227 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
4229 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
4230 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
4231 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
4232 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
4238 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
4240 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
4241 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
4242 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
4244 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
4246 This fixed a bug where a search for:
4248 to:user@elsewhere.com
4250 would incorrectly match a message sent:
4252 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
4254 Fix --output=json when search has no results
4256 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
4257 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
4258 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
4261 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
4262 from the Received headers in some cases
4264 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
4265 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
4267 Cleaned up several memory leaks
4269 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
4271 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
4273 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
4274 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
4275 interface and were never intended to be exported.
4277 Emacs-interface bug fixes
4278 -------------------------
4280 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
4282 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
4283 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
4284 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
4286 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
4288 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
4289 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
4290 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4293 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4295 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4296 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4297 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4298 fixed to avoid this bug.
4300 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4302 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4303 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4305 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4306 ========================
4308 New, general features
4309 ---------------------
4311 Maildir-flag synchronization
4313 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4314 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4323 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4325 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4326 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4327 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4328 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4330 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4331 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4332 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4333 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4336 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4338 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4339 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4340 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4342 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4343 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4345 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4346 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4348 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4349 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4350 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4352 New library features
4353 --------------------
4355 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4357 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4358 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4359 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4360 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4362 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4363 message with the new function:
4365 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4367 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4368 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4369 over all available filenames for a given message.
4371 New command-line features
4372 -------------------------
4374 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4376 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4377 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4378 access to the mail store itself.
4380 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4381 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4382 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4383 name of a script containing:
4385 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4387 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4388 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4394 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4396 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4398 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4400 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4401 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4402 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4403 now produces nothing).
4405 Emacs interface improvements
4406 ----------------------------
4408 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4410 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4412 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4414 Display current thread subject in a header line
4416 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4418 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4420 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4421 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4422 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4423 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4424 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4425 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4426 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4428 Vim interface improvements
4429 --------------------------
4431 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4433 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4434 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4440 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4442 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4443 ========================
4445 New command-line features
4446 -------------------------
4448 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4450 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4451 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4452 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4454 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4455 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4456 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4457 scripts. For example:
4459 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4460 <operations-on> "$file"
4463 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4465 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4466 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4467 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4468 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4469 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4470 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4472 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4474 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4475 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4476 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4477 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4479 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4481 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4482 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4483 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4484 default rather than Bcc.
4486 New library features
4487 --------------------
4489 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4491 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4492 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4497 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4499 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4500 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4501 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4502 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4503 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4504 notmuch customize interface.
4506 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4508 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4509 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4510 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4511 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4513 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4515 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4516 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4517 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4518 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4520 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4522 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4523 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4524 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4525 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4526 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4527 notmuch customize interface.
4529 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4531 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4532 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4533 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4534 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4535 notmuch customize interface.
4537 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4539 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4540 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4541 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4542 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4545 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4547 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4548 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4549 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4552 New build-system features
4553 -------------------------
4555 Various portability fixes have been applied
4557 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4558 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4559 more portable than ever before.
4561 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4563 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4564 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4565 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4567 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4568 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4569 automatically run ldconfig.
4571 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4572 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4573 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4575 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4576 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4577 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4578 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4580 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4582 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4583 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4584 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4585 used in the resulting Makefile.
4587 New test-suite features
4588 -----------------------
4590 New modularization of test suite
4592 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4593 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4594 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4595 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4596 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4597 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4598 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4599 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4601 New testing of emacs interface
4603 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4604 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4605 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4606 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4607 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4608 database via the FCC setting.
4613 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4615 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4616 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4617 persistent error of the form:
4619 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4621 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4622 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4624 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4626 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4627 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4628 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4630 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4632 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4633 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4634 parsing the notmuch results).
4636 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4638 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4641 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4642 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4643 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4648 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4650 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4651 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4652 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4653 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4654 the emacs interface.
4656 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4658 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4659 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4660 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4662 Python-binding fixes
4663 --------------------
4665 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4667 Debian-specific fixes
4668 ---------------------
4670 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4672 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4673 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4674 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4677 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4678 ==========================
4683 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4685 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4686 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4687 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4688 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4690 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4692 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4693 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4694 want notmuch to crash.
4699 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4701 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4702 directory does not exist
4707 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4709 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4710 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4712 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4713 ========================
4715 New command-line features
4716 -------------------------
4718 User-configurable tags for new messages
4720 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4721 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4722 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4723 to specify this value.
4725 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4727 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4728 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4729 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4731 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4733 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4734 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4736 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4738 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4739 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4740 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4741 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4742 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4745 Indication of author names that match a search
4747 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4748 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4749 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4750 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4751 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4752 messages in the thread are listed first.
4754 New: Python bindings
4755 --------------------
4757 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4758 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4759 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4760 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4762 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4763 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4764 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4767 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4768 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4769 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4771 Emacs interface improvements
4772 ----------------------------
4774 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4776 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4777 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4778 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4779 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4780 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4781 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4782 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4783 but without any of the disadvantages).
4785 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4786 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4787 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4790 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4791 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4792 instead running something like:
4794 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4796 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4797 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4798 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4801 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4803 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4804 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4805 tweaked by the user.
4807 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4808 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4809 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4812 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4813 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4814 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4817 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4819 This support currently relies on an external program,
4820 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4821 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4822 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4823 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4824 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4827 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4828 notmuch) is available via:
4830 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4832 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4833 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4834 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4836 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4838 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4839 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4840 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4841 making this automatic in a future release.
4843 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4845 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4846 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4847 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4848 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4849 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4850 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4853 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4855 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4856 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4857 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4859 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4861 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4862 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4863 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4865 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4866 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4867 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4868 other representation.
4870 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4871 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4874 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4876 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4877 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4878 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4880 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4881 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4882 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4884 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4886 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4887 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4888 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4889 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4890 to display the search result.
4892 More flexible handling of header visibility
4894 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4895 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4896 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4897 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4898 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4899 with the 'h' keybinding.
4901 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4902 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4903 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4905 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4907 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4909 Customizable formatting of search results
4911 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4912 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4913 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4915 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4917 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4919 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4924 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4926 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4927 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4928 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4929 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4935 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4937 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4938 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4940 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4942 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4943 accept are now all accepted.
4948 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4950 Better display of output from failed tests
4952 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4953 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4955 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4956 ========================
4958 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4959 detailed release notes this time!
4961 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4962 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4964 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4965 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4966 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4967 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4974 Better guessing of From: header
4976 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4977 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4978 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4979 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4980 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4983 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4985 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4986 guaranteed to match all messages.
4988 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4990 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4991 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4992 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4993 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4994 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4997 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
5000 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
5001 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
5002 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
5003 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
5008 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
5010 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
5011 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
5012 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
5013 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
5015 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
5017 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
5019 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
5020 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
5021 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
5023 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
5025 Previously, the user might see:
5027 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
5031 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
5033 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
5034 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
5035 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
5036 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
5038 Emacs client features
5039 ---------------------
5041 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
5043 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
5044 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
5045 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
5046 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
5047 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
5049 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
5052 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
5053 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
5054 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
5055 search with the '*' binding.
5057 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
5059 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
5060 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
5063 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
5065 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
5066 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
5067 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
5069 Build-system features
5070 ---------------------
5072 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
5074 Add support to configure for many standard options
5076 We include actual support for:
5078 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
5080 And accept and silently ignore several more:
5082 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
5083 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
5085 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
5086 separate "make install-emacs"
5088 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
5090 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
5091 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
5092 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
5094 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
5097 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
5098 ========================
5100 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
5102 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
5103 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
5105 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
5106 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
5107 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
5108 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
5109 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
5110 tags from messages in a thread.
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