1 Notmuch 0.21 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
13 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
15 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
16 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
18 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
20 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
21 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
22 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
27 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
28 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`.
30 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
31 ===========================
36 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
38 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
39 ===========================
44 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
46 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
47 =========================
49 Command-Line Interface
50 ----------------------
52 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
54 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
55 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
56 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
58 Path to gpg is now configurable
60 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
61 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
66 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
68 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
73 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
78 Support messages without Message-IDs.
83 Undeprecate single message mboxes
85 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
86 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
88 New error logging facility
90 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
91 output formerly printed to stderr.
93 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
95 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
97 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
99 Fix for rounding of seconds
104 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
106 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
107 docmumentation has been removed.
109 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
111 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
112 some material from the relicensed wiki.
117 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
118 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
119 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
124 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
125 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
126 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
127 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
128 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
129 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
132 git checkout config origin/config
134 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
136 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
137 =========================
142 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
143 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
144 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
145 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
146 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
147 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
148 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
150 Command-Line Interface
151 ----------------------
153 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
155 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
156 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
157 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
158 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
159 script callers should still check the return value.
161 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
163 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
164 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
165 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
166 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
167 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
168 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
169 and returning success even if indexing fails).
171 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
173 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
174 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
175 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
177 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
179 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
180 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
181 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
182 currently unmaintained.
184 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
186 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
187 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
188 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
189 have at least `N` files associated with them.
191 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
193 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
194 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
195 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
196 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
197 count of duplicate addresses.
202 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
204 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
205 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
206 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
209 Improved handling of the unread tag
211 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
212 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
213 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
214 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
215 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
216 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
217 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
219 Expanded default saved search settings
221 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
222 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
224 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
226 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
227 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
228 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
230 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
232 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
233 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
234 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
235 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
236 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
237 the variable for details.
242 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
244 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
245 Representing these independently of the database version number will
246 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
247 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
249 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
251 Previously, library users were required to call
252 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
253 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
254 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
255 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
256 too out of date for that API.
258 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
260 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
261 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
262 atomic section will be aborted.
264 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
265 `notmuch_database_destroy`
267 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
269 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
270 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
271 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
272 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
273 messages into the same thread.
278 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
279 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
280 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
281 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
282 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
283 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
288 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
289 from the config file. Use something like:
293 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
294 "footer": "</body></html>",
303 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
308 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
309 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
310 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
312 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
313 ===========================
318 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
320 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
322 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
324 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
325 structure for signatures changed slightly.
327 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
329 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
332 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
333 ===========================
335 This is a bug fix and portability release.
340 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
342 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
344 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
346 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
348 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
354 Use --quick when starting emacs
356 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
358 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
360 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
362 Command-Line Interface
363 ----------------------
365 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
366 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
371 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
373 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
374 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
376 Fix for phrase indexing
378 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
379 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
380 will affect only newly indexed messages.
385 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
387 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
388 unintentionally removed.
390 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
391 =========================
396 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
397 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
398 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
399 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
400 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
401 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
402 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
403 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
404 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
410 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
412 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
413 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
414 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
415 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
416 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
417 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
418 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
419 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
421 There is a new `path:` search prefix
423 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
424 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
425 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
426 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
429 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
431 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
432 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
433 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
434 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
435 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
436 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
437 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
442 Notmuch database upgrade
444 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
445 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
446 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
447 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
448 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
449 released version of Notmuch before now.
451 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
453 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
454 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
455 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
456 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
458 Message header parsing changes
460 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
461 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
462 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
463 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
464 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
465 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
467 Command-Line Interface
468 ----------------------
470 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
472 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
474 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
476 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
478 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
480 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
481 user does not want it.
483 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
485 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
486 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
487 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
488 support formatted output.
490 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
492 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
493 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
494 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
502 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
503 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
504 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
505 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
506 `~/.emacs` with these.
508 Changed format for saved searches
510 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
511 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
512 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
513 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
516 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
517 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
518 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
519 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
521 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
522 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
523 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
525 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
526 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
527 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
528 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
529 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
531 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
533 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
534 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
535 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
537 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
539 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
540 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
541 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
542 message had been unread).
544 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
545 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
546 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
547 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
549 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
550 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
551 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
553 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
554 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
555 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
556 to tags already present.
560 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
561 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
562 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
563 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
564 these differ from each other.
565 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
567 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
569 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
570 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
571 for these Emacs versions.
573 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
575 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
576 newlines before calling notmuch count.
578 Bug fixes for sender identities
580 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
581 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
582 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
584 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
586 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
587 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
588 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
589 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
591 Reply pushes mark before signature
593 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
594 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
595 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
597 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
599 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
600 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
606 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
607 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
609 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
610 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
611 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
612 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
614 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
615 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
616 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
617 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
618 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
620 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
622 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
623 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
625 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
626 =========================
628 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
629 ---------------------------------------
631 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
632 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
633 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
634 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
635 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
636 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
637 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
641 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
642 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
644 Command-Line Interface
645 ----------------------
647 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
649 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
650 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
651 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
652 print for each message.
654 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
655 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
656 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
657 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
659 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
661 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
662 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
663 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
665 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
667 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
668 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
669 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
670 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
672 `notmuch compact` command
674 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
675 functionality through a more convenient interface than
676 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
677 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
678 move the compacted database into place.
683 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
685 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
686 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
687 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
688 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
689 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
690 and multiple threads.
694 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
696 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
697 search, show and tree mode itself)
699 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
702 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
703 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
705 Customising `notmuch-tree`
707 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
708 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
709 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
710 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
711 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
712 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
713 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
715 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
717 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
718 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
719 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
720 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
721 thread when the search was performed.
723 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
725 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
726 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
727 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
729 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
731 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
732 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
735 Built-in help improvements
737 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
738 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
739 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
741 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
743 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
744 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
745 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
747 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
749 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
750 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
752 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
754 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
755 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
756 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
757 to move some of them to the common keymap.
759 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
761 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
762 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
763 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
764 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
766 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
768 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
769 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
770 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
772 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
774 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
775 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
776 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
778 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
780 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
781 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
782 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
783 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
784 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
786 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
788 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
789 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
790 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
791 the body part of the message.
796 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
797 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
798 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
800 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
801 =========================
803 Command-Line Interface
804 ----------------------
806 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
808 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
809 folder and notmuch index.
811 `notmuch count --batch` option
813 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
814 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
816 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
818 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
819 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
820 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
823 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
825 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
826 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
827 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
828 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
829 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
832 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
834 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
835 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
837 Top level option to specify configuration file
839 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
840 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
842 Bash command-line completion
844 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
845 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
846 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
847 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
848 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
849 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
850 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
851 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
852 bash-completion package.
854 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
859 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
861 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
862 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
863 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
864 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
865 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
866 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
867 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
868 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
870 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
872 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
873 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
874 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
876 Key bindings for next/previous thread
878 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
879 previous thread in the search results.
881 Better handling of errors in search buffers
883 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
884 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
886 Faster search and show
888 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
889 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
890 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
891 threads should show faster.
895 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
896 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
897 in question was now removed from this release.
902 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
903 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
908 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
910 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
911 ===========================
916 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
918 Internal test framework changes
919 -------------------------------
921 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
924 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
925 ===========================
927 Internal test framework changes
928 -------------------------------
930 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
931 build failures in non-interactive environments.
933 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
934 =========================
939 Date range search support
941 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
942 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
943 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
944 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
945 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
948 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
950 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
951 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
952 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
953 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
954 but may be removed in a future release.
956 Command-Line Interface
957 ----------------------
959 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
961 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
962 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
964 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
966 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
967 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
968 officially deprecated.
970 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
972 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
973 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
974 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
976 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
978 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
979 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
982 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
983 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
986 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
988 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
989 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
990 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
992 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
994 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
995 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
996 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
998 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1000 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1001 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1002 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1003 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1008 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1010 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1011 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1012 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1013 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1015 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1017 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1018 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1019 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1020 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1021 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1022 the behavior of this, see
1023 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1024 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1026 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1027 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1028 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1030 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1032 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1033 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1036 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1038 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1039 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1040 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1041 simply displayed in place of the message.
1043 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1045 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1046 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1048 Improved text/calendar content handling
1050 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1051 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1052 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1053 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1055 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1057 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1058 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1059 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1060 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1062 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1064 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1065 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1066 for HTML email containing images.
1068 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1070 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1072 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1074 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1077 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1079 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1080 the point where it was.
1082 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1084 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1085 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1086 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1087 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1088 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1090 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1092 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1093 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1094 thread instead of the message id.
1096 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1097 -----------------------------
1099 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1100 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1101 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1102 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1103 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1104 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1105 further details and installation.
1110 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1112 Internal test framework changes
1113 -------------------------------
1115 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1117 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1118 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1119 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1120 can result in buggy behavior.
1122 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1123 =========================
1128 Maildir tag synchronization
1130 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1131 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1132 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1133 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1134 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1135 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1138 Command-Line Interface
1139 ----------------------
1141 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1142 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1143 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1144 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1145 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1151 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1153 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1155 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1156 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1157 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1159 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1161 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1162 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1163 span multiple lines.
1165 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1167 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1168 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1169 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1170 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1171 inside the result or message.
1173 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1175 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1176 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1178 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1179 user-specified formatting
1181 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1182 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1183 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1184 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1185 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1187 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1188 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1190 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1191 ===========================
1196 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1197 compilation error for this contrib package.
1199 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1200 ===========================
1205 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1207 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1208 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1209 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1210 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1212 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1213 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1216 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1217 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1218 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1219 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1222 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1224 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1227 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1228 =========================
1230 Command-Line Interface
1231 ----------------------
1235 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1236 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1237 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1238 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1240 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1241 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1242 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1243 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1247 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1248 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1250 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1251 tag in your query, for example:
1253 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1255 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1256 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1258 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1259 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1261 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1263 Raw show format changes
1265 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1266 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1267 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1268 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1269 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1270 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1271 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1272 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1274 Listing configuration items
1276 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1282 Changes to tagging interface
1284 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1285 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1286 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1287 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1288 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1289 for more information.
1291 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1292 may need to update in custom configurations.
1294 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1296 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1297 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1298 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1299 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1302 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1303 -----------------------------
1305 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1306 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1307 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1308 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1309 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1310 contrib/ from now on.
1315 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1316 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1318 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1319 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1321 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1322 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1323 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1325 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1326 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1328 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1329 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1330 returning the new database object or directory object.
1337 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1338 compatible with go 1.
1340 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1341 =========================
1343 Command-Line Interface
1344 ----------------------
1348 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1349 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1350 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1351 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1353 Mail store folder/file ignore
1355 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1356 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1357 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1359 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1360 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1362 Unified help and manual pages
1364 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1365 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1368 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1370 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1371 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1379 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1380 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1381 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1382 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1384 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1386 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1387 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1389 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1392 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1393 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1394 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1396 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1398 should be changed to:
1400 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1402 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1404 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1405 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1407 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1409 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1410 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1411 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1412 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1413 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1414 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1418 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1419 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1420 of Mailing List Archives.
1422 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1424 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1425 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1428 Show view archiving key binding changes
1430 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1431 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1432 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1433 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1434 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1437 Support text/calendar MIME type
1439 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1442 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1444 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1445 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1446 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1447 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1449 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1451 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1452 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1453 messages blue by default in the search view.
1457 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1458 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1465 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1468 Python bindings changes
1469 -----------------------
1471 Python 3.2 compatibility
1473 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1475 Added missing unicode conversions
1477 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1478 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1479 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1484 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1486 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1487 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1488 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1489 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1490 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1492 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1493 ===========================
1498 Fix error handling in python bindings
1500 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1501 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1502 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1503 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1505 Quote MML tags in replies
1507 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1508 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1509 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1510 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1511 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1512 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1513 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1514 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1516 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1517 =========================
1519 Command-Line Interface
1520 ----------------------
1524 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1525 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1526 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1527 importing new messages into the database.
1529 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1531 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1532 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1533 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1538 Automatic tag query optimization
1540 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1541 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1542 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1544 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1546 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1547 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1548 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1553 Reduction of memory leaks
1555 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1556 and fixed in this release.
1563 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1564 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1565 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1568 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1570 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1571 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1572 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1575 Improvements in saved search management
1577 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1578 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1579 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1581 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1583 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1584 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1585 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1587 New face for crypto parts headers
1589 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1590 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1591 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1594 Use space as default thousands separator
1596 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1597 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1598 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1600 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1601 buttonized id: links
1603 New function notmuch-show-advance
1605 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1606 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1607 be bound to SPC with:
1609 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1611 Various performance improvements
1616 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1617 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1620 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1621 ===========================
1626 Fix crash in python bindings
1628 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1629 for some, but not all users.
1631 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1632 ===========================
1637 Fix `--help` argument
1639 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1640 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1641 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1643 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1644 =========================
1646 New build and testing features
1647 ------------------------------
1649 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1650 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1651 prerequisites is improved.
1653 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1655 New command-line features
1656 -------------------------
1658 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1660 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1661 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1664 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1666 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1667 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1668 favour of using stdout.
1670 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1672 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1673 limit the number of results shown.
1675 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1677 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1678 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1681 New emacs UI features
1682 ---------------------
1684 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1686 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1687 starting with "tag:".
1689 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1691 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1692 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1694 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1696 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1698 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1700 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1701 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1706 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1708 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1710 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1711 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1712 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1713 requires a database rebuild:
1715 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1716 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1718 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1720 New collection of add-on tools
1721 ------------------------------
1723 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1724 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1725 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1728 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1730 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1731 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1732 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1734 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1735 ========================
1737 New, general features
1738 ---------------------
1740 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1742 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1743 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1744 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1745 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1746 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1753 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1754 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1756 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1760 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1761 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1762 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1765 Python bindings changes
1766 -----------------------
1768 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1770 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1771 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1772 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1773 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1774 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1775 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1777 Ruby bindings changes
1778 ---------------------
1780 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1781 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1782 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1783 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1788 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1790 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1791 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1793 Reply formatting cleanup
1794 ------------------------
1796 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1797 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1799 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1800 ========================
1802 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1804 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1805 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1806 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1807 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1810 Improved Build system portability
1812 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1813 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1814 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1816 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1818 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1820 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1822 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1823 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1824 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1826 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1827 ========================
1829 Vim interface improvements
1830 --------------------------
1832 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1834 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1835 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1836 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1837 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1838 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1840 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1842 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1843 * fix compose temp file name
1845 Python Bindings changes
1846 -----------------------
1848 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1850 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1851 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1853 Build-System improvements
1854 -------------------------
1856 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1858 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1861 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1862 ==========================
1867 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1869 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1870 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1872 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1873 =======================
1875 New, general features
1876 ---------------------
1878 Folder-based searching
1880 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1881 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1882 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1886 For example, one might use things such as:
1892 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1893 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1895 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1896 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1897 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1898 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1900 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1901 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1902 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1905 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1906 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1908 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1910 Support for PGP/MIME
1912 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1913 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1914 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1916 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1918 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1919 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1921 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1922 notmuch will receive these tags.
1924 New command-line features
1925 -------------------------
1927 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1929 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1930 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1932 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1934 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1935 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1936 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1938 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1940 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1941 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1942 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1943 which parts a signature part applies).
1945 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1947 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1948 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1949 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1950 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1951 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1954 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1956 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1957 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1958 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1959 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1960 by translating it internally to the new call.
1962 Performance improvements
1963 ------------------------
1965 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1967 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1968 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1969 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1971 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1972 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1974 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1976 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1977 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1978 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1980 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1981 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1982 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1983 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1985 Faster initial indexing
1987 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1988 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1989 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1991 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1993 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1994 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1995 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1996 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1998 New emacs-interface features
1999 ----------------------------
2001 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2003 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2004 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2005 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2006 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2007 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2008 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2010 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2012 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2013 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2014 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2015 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2017 User-selectable From address
2019 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2020 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2021 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2022 will prompt for the from address to use.
2024 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2025 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2026 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2028 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2029 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2030 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2033 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2035 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2036 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2038 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2040 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2042 ----- Original Message -----
2044 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2045 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2046 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2047 citations work much like conventional citations.
2049 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2051 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2052 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2053 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2054 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2055 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2057 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2058 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2060 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2062 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2063 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2064 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2066 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2068 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2069 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2070 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2071 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2072 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2074 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2076 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2079 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2081 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2083 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2085 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2088 Vim interface improvements
2089 --------------------------
2091 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2093 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2094 * Implementing archive in show view
2095 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2096 * Add delete commands
2099 Bindings improvements
2100 ---------------------
2102 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2104 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2105 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2107 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2109 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2113 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2114 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2115 `list(Messages)` works now
2116 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2118 These allow, for example:
2120 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2122 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2124 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2130 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2132 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2135 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2137 New build-system features
2138 -------------------------
2140 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2142 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2143 the configure script from some other directory:
2150 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2152 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2153 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2154 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2155 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2156 manual invocation of configure.
2158 New test-suite feature
2159 ----------------------
2161 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2163 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2164 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2165 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2166 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2167 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2170 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2172 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2173 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2174 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2175 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2176 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2177 are updated to take advantage of this.
2179 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2181 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2182 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2183 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2184 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2190 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2192 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2193 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2194 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2196 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2198 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2200 to:user@elsewhere.com
2202 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2204 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2206 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2208 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2209 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2210 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2213 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2214 from the Received headers in some cases
2216 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2217 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2219 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2221 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2223 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2225 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2226 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2227 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2229 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2230 -------------------------
2232 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2234 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2235 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2236 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2238 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2240 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2241 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2242 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2245 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2247 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2248 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2249 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2250 fixed to avoid this bug.
2252 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2254 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2255 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2257 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2258 ========================
2260 New, general features
2261 ---------------------
2263 Maildir-flag synchronization
2265 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2266 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2275 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2277 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2278 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2279 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2280 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2282 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2283 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2284 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2285 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2288 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2290 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2291 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2292 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2294 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2295 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2297 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2298 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2300 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2301 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2302 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2304 New library features
2305 --------------------
2307 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2309 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2310 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2311 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2312 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2314 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2315 message with the new function:
2317 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2319 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2320 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2321 over all available filenames for a given message.
2323 New command-line features
2324 -------------------------
2326 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2328 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2329 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2330 access to the mail store itself.
2332 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2333 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2334 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2335 name of a script containing:
2337 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2339 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2340 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2346 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2348 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2350 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2352 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2353 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2354 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2355 now produces nothing).
2357 Emacs interface improvements
2358 ----------------------------
2360 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2362 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2364 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2366 Display current thread subject in a header line
2368 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2370 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2372 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2373 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2374 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2375 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2376 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2377 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2378 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2380 Vim interface improvements
2381 --------------------------
2383 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2385 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2386 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2392 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2394 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2395 ========================
2397 New command-line features
2398 -------------------------
2400 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2402 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2403 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2404 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2406 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2407 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2408 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2409 scripts. For example:
2411 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2412 <operations-on> "$file"
2415 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2417 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2418 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2419 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2420 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2421 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2422 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2424 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2426 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2427 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2428 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2429 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2431 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2433 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2434 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2435 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2436 default rather than Bcc.
2438 New library features
2439 --------------------
2441 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2443 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2444 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2449 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2451 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2452 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2453 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2454 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2455 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2456 notmuch customize interface.
2458 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2460 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2461 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2462 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2463 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2465 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2467 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2468 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2469 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2470 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2472 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2474 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2475 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2476 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2477 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2478 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2479 notmuch customize interface.
2481 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2483 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2484 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2485 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2486 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2487 notmuch customize interface.
2489 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2491 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2492 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2493 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2494 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2497 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2499 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2500 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2501 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2504 New build-system features
2505 -------------------------
2507 Various portability fixes have been applied
2509 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2510 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2511 more portable than ever before.
2513 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2515 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2516 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2517 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2519 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2520 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2521 automatically run ldconfig.
2523 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2524 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2525 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2527 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2528 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2529 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2530 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2532 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2534 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2535 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2536 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2537 used in the resulting Makefile.
2539 New test-suite features
2540 -----------------------
2542 New modularization of test suite
2544 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2545 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2546 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2547 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2548 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2549 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2550 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2551 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2553 New testing of emacs interface
2555 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2556 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2557 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2558 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2559 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2560 database via the FCC setting.
2565 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2567 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2568 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2569 persistent error of the form:
2571 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2573 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2574 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2576 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2578 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2579 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2580 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2582 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2584 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2585 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2586 parsing the notmuch results).
2588 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2590 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2593 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2594 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2595 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2600 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2602 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2603 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2604 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2605 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2606 the emacs interface.
2608 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2610 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2611 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2612 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2614 Python-binding fixes
2615 --------------------
2617 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2619 Debian-specific fixes
2620 ---------------------
2622 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2624 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2625 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2626 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2629 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2630 ==========================
2635 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2637 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2638 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2639 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2640 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2642 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2644 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2645 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2646 want notmuch to crash.
2651 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2653 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2654 directory does not exist
2659 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2661 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2662 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2664 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2665 ========================
2667 New command-line features
2668 -------------------------
2670 User-configurable tags for new messages
2672 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2673 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2674 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2675 to specify this value.
2677 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2679 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2680 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2681 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2683 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2685 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2686 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2688 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2690 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2691 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2692 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2693 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2694 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2697 Indication of author names that match a search
2699 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2700 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2701 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2702 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2703 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2704 messages in the thread are listed first.
2706 New: Python bindings
2707 --------------------
2709 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2710 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2711 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2712 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2714 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2715 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2716 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2719 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2720 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2721 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2723 Emacs interface improvements
2724 ----------------------------
2726 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2728 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2729 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2730 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2731 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2732 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2733 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2734 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2735 but without any of the disadvantages).
2737 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2738 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2739 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2742 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2743 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2744 instead running something like:
2746 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2748 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2749 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2750 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2753 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2755 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2756 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2757 tweaked by the user.
2759 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2760 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2761 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2764 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2765 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2766 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2769 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2771 This support currently relies on an external program,
2772 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2773 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2774 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2775 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2776 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2779 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2780 notmuch) is available via:
2782 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2784 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2785 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2786 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2788 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2790 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2791 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2792 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2793 making this automatic in a future release.
2795 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2797 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2798 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2799 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2800 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2801 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2802 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2805 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2807 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2808 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2809 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2811 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2813 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2814 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2815 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2817 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2818 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2819 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2820 other representation.
2822 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2823 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2826 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2828 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2829 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2830 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2832 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2833 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2834 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2836 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2838 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2839 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2840 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2841 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2842 to display the search result.
2844 More flexible handling of header visibility
2846 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2847 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2848 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2849 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2850 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2851 with the 'h' keybinding.
2853 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2854 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2855 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2857 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2859 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2861 Customizable formatting of search results
2863 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2864 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2865 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2867 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2869 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2871 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2876 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2878 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2879 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2880 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2881 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2887 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2889 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2890 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2892 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2894 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2895 accept are now all accepted.
2900 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2902 Better display of output from failed tests
2904 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2905 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2907 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2908 ========================
2910 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2911 detailed release notes this time!
2913 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2914 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2916 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2917 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2918 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2919 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2926 Better guessing of From: header
2928 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2929 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2930 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2931 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2932 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2935 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2937 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2938 guaranteed to match all messages.
2940 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2942 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2943 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2944 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2945 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2946 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2949 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2952 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2953 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2954 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2955 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2960 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2962 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2963 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2964 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2965 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2967 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2969 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2971 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2972 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2973 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2975 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2977 Previously, the user might see:
2979 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2983 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2985 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2986 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2987 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2988 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2990 Emacs client features
2991 ---------------------
2993 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2995 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2996 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2997 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2998 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2999 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3001 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3004 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3005 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3006 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3007 search with the '*' binding.
3009 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3011 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3012 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3015 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3017 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3018 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3019 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3021 Build-system features
3022 ---------------------
3024 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3026 Add support to configure for many standard options
3028 We include actual support for:
3030 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3032 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3034 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3035 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3037 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3038 separate "make install-emacs"
3040 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3042 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3043 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3044 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3046 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3049 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3050 ========================
3052 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3054 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3055 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3057 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3058 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3059 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3060 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3061 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3062 tags from messages in a thread.
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