1 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
2 =========================
7 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`.
9 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
12 Command Line Interface
13 ----------------------
15 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
17 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
18 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
19 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
24 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
26 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
27 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
28 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
29 or tree view to resume.
31 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
32 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
33 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
36 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
37 they were when you postponed in the final message.
41 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
42 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
43 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
44 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
45 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
49 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
50 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
51 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
52 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
53 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
54 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
58 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
59 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
61 Stop display of application/* parts
63 By default gnus displays all application/* parts such as
64 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
65 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
66 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
67 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
68 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
69 application/* add application/* to your customization. If you want
70 to allow application/* then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
73 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
75 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
76 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
77 only tagged the current thread.)
79 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers.
81 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
82 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
83 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
85 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
87 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
88 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
89 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
90 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
91 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
92 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
93 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
95 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
97 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
98 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
99 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
104 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive.
106 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
109 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
111 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
114 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
115 ===========================
120 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
122 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
123 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
124 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
127 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
128 ===========================
130 Command Line Interface
131 ----------------------
133 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
138 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
140 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
141 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
142 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
144 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
145 ===========================
150 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
151 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
153 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
154 ===========================
156 Command Line Interface
157 ----------------------
159 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
161 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
162 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
163 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
168 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
170 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
171 ===========================
173 Command Line Interface
174 ----------------------
176 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
181 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
183 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
184 ===========================
189 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
191 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
192 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
193 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
195 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
197 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
199 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
200 ===========================
205 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
207 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
212 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
214 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
215 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
216 the original colours.
218 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
219 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
221 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
223 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
224 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
225 bug, and hence the test.
227 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
228 =========================
230 General (Xapian 1.4+)
231 ---------------------
233 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
235 Support for single argument date: queries
237 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
239 Support for blocking opens
241 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
242 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
244 Support for named queries
246 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
247 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
248 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
255 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
256 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
257 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
258 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
260 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
262 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
267 Support for compile time options
269 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
270 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
273 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
275 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
276 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
277 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
278 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
279 scripts to ignore it.
284 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
286 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
287 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
288 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
290 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
291 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
292 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
293 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
294 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
295 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
296 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
298 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
299 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
302 Make internal address completion customizable
304 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
305 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
306 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
307 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
310 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
312 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
313 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
314 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
315 completion for the current buffer.
317 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
318 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
319 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
323 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
324 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
325 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
326 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
327 will be added instead.
329 Face customization is easier
331 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
332 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
333 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
334 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
336 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
341 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
346 Go bindings moved to contrib
348 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
350 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
352 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
353 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
355 The same issue occured with sort modes.
357 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
358 ===========================
365 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
366 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
368 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
370 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
372 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
373 ===========================
378 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
380 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
385 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
390 Use `env` to locate perl.
395 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
397 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
399 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
401 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
403 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
404 =========================
411 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
412 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
414 Limited support for S/MIME messages
416 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
417 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
418 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
423 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
424 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
425 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
427 Command Line Interface
428 ----------------------
430 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
432 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
437 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
442 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
444 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
445 parts are now included in replies.
447 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
448 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
449 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
450 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
452 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
454 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
456 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
458 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
459 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
460 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
461 forwards only the current message.
463 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
465 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
466 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
467 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
468 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
469 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
470 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
471 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
472 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
475 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
476 longer generate empty buffers
478 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
479 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
480 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
481 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
482 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
484 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
486 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
489 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
491 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
494 Address completion improvements
496 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
497 you previously configured one, customize the variable
498 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
499 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
500 interactive address completion.
502 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
504 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
505 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
506 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
511 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
512 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
513 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
519 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
520 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
521 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
522 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
523 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
524 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
526 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
527 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
528 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
529 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
530 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
531 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
533 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
534 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
536 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
537 =========================
542 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
545 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
547 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
548 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
549 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
551 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
552 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
554 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
555 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
556 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
558 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
560 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
561 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
562 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
563 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
564 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
565 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
570 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
571 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
574 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
577 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
579 Command Line Interface
580 ----------------------
582 Database revision tracking
584 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
585 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
586 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
587 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
589 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
591 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
592 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
593 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
594 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
595 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
596 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
597 manual page for further information.
602 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
604 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
605 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
607 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
609 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
610 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
611 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
613 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
615 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
617 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
618 customization as well.
620 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
622 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
624 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
626 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
628 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
629 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
630 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
631 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
633 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
635 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
636 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
637 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
638 this variable to 10000.
643 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
644 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
646 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
648 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
649 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
650 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
651 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
652 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
653 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
654 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
655 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
656 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
659 Database revision tracking
661 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
662 query parser and the new function
663 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
665 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
669 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
670 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
671 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
672 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
677 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
679 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
680 ===========================
685 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
687 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
688 ===========================
693 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
695 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
696 =========================
698 Command-Line Interface
699 ----------------------
701 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
703 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
704 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
705 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
707 Path to gpg is now configurable
709 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
710 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
715 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
717 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
722 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
727 Support messages without Message-IDs.
732 Undeprecate single message mboxes
734 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
735 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
737 New error logging facility
739 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
740 output formerly printed to stderr.
742 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
744 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
746 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
748 Fix for rounding of seconds
753 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
755 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
756 docmumentation has been removed.
758 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
760 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
761 some material from the relicensed wiki.
766 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
767 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
768 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
773 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
774 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
775 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
776 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
777 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
778 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
781 git checkout config origin/config
783 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
785 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
786 =========================
791 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
792 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
793 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
794 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
795 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
796 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
797 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
799 Command-Line Interface
800 ----------------------
802 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
804 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
805 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
806 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
807 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
808 script callers should still check the return value.
810 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
812 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
813 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
814 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
815 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
816 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
817 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
818 and returning success even if indexing fails).
820 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
822 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
823 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
824 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
826 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
828 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
829 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
830 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
831 currently unmaintained.
833 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
835 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
836 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
837 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
838 have at least `N` files associated with them.
840 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
842 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
843 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
844 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
845 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
846 count of duplicate addresses.
851 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
853 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
854 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
855 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
858 Improved handling of the unread tag
860 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
861 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
862 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
863 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
864 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
865 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
866 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
868 Expanded default saved search settings
870 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
871 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
873 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
875 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
876 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
877 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
879 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
881 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
882 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
883 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
884 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
885 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
886 the variable for details.
891 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
893 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
894 Representing these independently of the database version number will
895 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
896 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
898 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
900 Previously, library users were required to call
901 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
902 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
903 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
904 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
905 too out of date for that API.
907 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
909 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
910 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
911 atomic section will be aborted.
913 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
914 `notmuch_database_destroy`
916 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
918 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
919 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
920 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
921 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
922 messages into the same thread.
927 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
928 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
929 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
930 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
931 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
932 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
937 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
938 from the config file. Use something like:
942 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
943 "footer": "</body></html>",
952 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
957 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
958 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
959 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
961 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
962 ===========================
967 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
969 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
971 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
973 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
974 structure for signatures changed slightly.
976 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
978 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
981 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
982 ===========================
984 This is a bug fix and portability release.
989 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
991 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
993 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
995 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
997 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1003 Use --quick when starting emacs
1005 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1007 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1009 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1011 Command-Line Interface
1012 ----------------------
1014 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1015 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1020 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1022 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1023 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1025 Fix for phrase indexing
1027 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1028 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1029 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1034 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1036 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1037 unintentionally removed.
1039 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1040 =========================
1045 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1046 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1047 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1048 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1049 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1050 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1051 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1052 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1053 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1059 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1061 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1062 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1063 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1064 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1065 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1066 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1067 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1068 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1070 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1072 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1073 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1074 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1075 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1078 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1080 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1081 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1082 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1083 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1084 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1085 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1086 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1091 Notmuch database upgrade
1093 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1094 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1095 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1096 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1097 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1098 released version of Notmuch before now.
1100 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1102 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1103 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1104 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1105 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1107 Message header parsing changes
1109 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1110 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1111 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1112 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1113 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1114 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1116 Command-Line Interface
1117 ----------------------
1119 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1121 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1123 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1125 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1127 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1129 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1130 user does not want it.
1132 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1134 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1135 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1136 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1137 support formatted output.
1139 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1141 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1142 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1143 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1151 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1152 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1153 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1154 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1155 `~/.emacs` with these.
1157 Changed format for saved searches
1159 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1160 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1161 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1162 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1165 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1166 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1167 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1168 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1170 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1171 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1172 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1174 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1175 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1176 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1177 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1178 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1180 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1182 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1183 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1184 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1186 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1188 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1189 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1190 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1191 message had been unread).
1193 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1194 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1195 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1196 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1198 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1199 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1200 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1202 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1203 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1204 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1205 to tags already present.
1209 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1210 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1211 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1212 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1213 these differ from each other.
1214 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1216 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1218 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1219 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1220 for these Emacs versions.
1222 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1224 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1225 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1227 Bug fixes for sender identities
1229 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1230 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1231 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1233 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1235 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1236 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1237 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1238 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1240 Reply pushes mark before signature
1242 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1243 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1244 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1246 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1248 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1249 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1255 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1256 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1258 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1259 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1260 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1261 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1263 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1264 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1265 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1266 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1267 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1269 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1271 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1272 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1274 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1275 =========================
1277 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1278 ---------------------------------------
1280 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1281 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1282 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1283 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1284 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1285 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1286 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1290 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1291 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1293 Command-Line Interface
1294 ----------------------
1296 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1298 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1299 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1300 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1301 print for each message.
1303 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1304 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1305 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1306 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1308 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1310 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1311 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1312 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1314 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1316 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1317 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1318 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1319 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1321 `notmuch compact` command
1323 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1324 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1325 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1326 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1327 move the compacted database into place.
1332 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1334 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1335 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1336 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1337 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1338 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1339 and multiple threads.
1341 Using `notmuch-tree`
1343 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1345 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1346 search, show and tree mode itself)
1348 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1351 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1352 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1354 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1356 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1357 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1358 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1359 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1360 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1361 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1362 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1364 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1366 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1367 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1368 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1369 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1370 thread when the search was performed.
1372 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1374 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1375 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1376 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1378 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1380 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1381 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1384 Built-in help improvements
1386 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1387 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1388 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1390 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1392 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1393 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1394 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1396 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1398 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1399 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1401 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1403 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1404 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1405 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1406 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1408 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1410 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1411 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1412 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1413 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1415 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1417 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1418 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1419 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1421 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1423 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1424 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1425 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1427 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1429 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1430 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1431 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1432 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1433 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1435 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1437 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1438 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1439 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1440 the body part of the message.
1445 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1446 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1447 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1449 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1450 =========================
1452 Command-Line Interface
1453 ----------------------
1455 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1457 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1458 folder and notmuch index.
1460 `notmuch count --batch` option
1462 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1463 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1465 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1467 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1468 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1469 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1472 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1474 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1475 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1476 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1477 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1478 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1481 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1483 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1484 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1486 Top level option to specify configuration file
1488 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1489 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1491 Bash command-line completion
1493 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1494 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1495 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1496 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1497 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1498 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1499 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1500 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1501 bash-completion package.
1503 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1508 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1510 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1511 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1512 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1513 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1514 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1515 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1516 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1517 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1519 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1521 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1522 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1523 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1525 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1527 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1528 previous thread in the search results.
1530 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1532 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1533 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1535 Faster search and show
1537 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1538 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1539 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1540 threads should show faster.
1544 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1545 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1546 in question was now removed from this release.
1551 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1552 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1557 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1559 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1560 ===========================
1565 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1567 Internal test framework changes
1568 -------------------------------
1570 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1571 being unimplemented.
1573 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1574 ===========================
1576 Internal test framework changes
1577 -------------------------------
1579 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1580 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1582 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1583 =========================
1588 Date range search support
1590 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1591 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1592 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1593 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1594 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1597 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1599 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1600 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1601 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1602 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1603 but may be removed in a future release.
1605 Command-Line Interface
1606 ----------------------
1608 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1610 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1611 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1613 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1615 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1616 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1617 officially deprecated.
1619 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1621 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1622 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1623 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1625 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1627 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1628 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1631 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1632 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1633 dump/restore format.
1635 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1637 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1638 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1639 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1641 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1643 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1644 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1645 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1647 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1649 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1650 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1651 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1652 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1657 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1659 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1660 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1661 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1662 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1664 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1666 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1667 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1668 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1669 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1670 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1671 the behavior of this, see
1672 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1673 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1675 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1676 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1677 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1679 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1681 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1682 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1685 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1687 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1688 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1689 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1690 simply displayed in place of the message.
1692 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1694 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1695 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1697 Improved text/calendar content handling
1699 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1700 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1701 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1702 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1704 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1706 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1707 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1708 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1709 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1711 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1713 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1714 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1715 for HTML email containing images.
1717 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1719 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1721 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1723 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1726 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1728 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1729 the point where it was.
1731 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1733 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1734 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1735 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1736 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1737 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1739 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1741 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1742 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1743 thread instead of the message id.
1745 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1746 -----------------------------
1748 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1749 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1750 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1751 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1752 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1753 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1754 further details and installation.
1759 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1761 Internal test framework changes
1762 -------------------------------
1764 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1766 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1767 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1768 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1769 can result in buggy behavior.
1771 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1772 =========================
1777 Maildir tag synchronization
1779 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1780 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1781 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1782 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1783 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1784 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1787 Command-Line Interface
1788 ----------------------
1790 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1791 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1792 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1793 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1794 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1800 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1802 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1804 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1805 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1806 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1808 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1810 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1811 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1812 span multiple lines.
1814 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1816 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1817 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1818 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1819 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1820 inside the result or message.
1822 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1824 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1825 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1827 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1828 user-specified formatting
1830 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1831 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1832 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1833 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1834 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1836 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1837 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1839 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1840 ===========================
1845 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1846 compilation error for this contrib package.
1848 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1849 ===========================
1854 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1856 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1857 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1858 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1859 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1861 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1862 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1865 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1866 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1867 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1868 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1871 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1873 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1876 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1877 =========================
1879 Command-Line Interface
1880 ----------------------
1884 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1885 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1886 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1887 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1889 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1890 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1891 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1892 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1896 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1897 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1899 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1900 tag in your query, for example:
1902 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1904 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1905 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1907 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1908 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1910 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1912 Raw show format changes
1914 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1915 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1916 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1917 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1918 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1919 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1920 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1921 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1923 Listing configuration items
1925 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1931 Changes to tagging interface
1933 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1934 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1935 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1936 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1937 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1938 for more information.
1940 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1941 may need to update in custom configurations.
1943 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1945 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1946 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1947 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1948 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1951 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1952 -----------------------------
1954 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1955 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1956 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1957 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1958 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1959 contrib/ from now on.
1964 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1965 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1967 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1968 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1970 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1971 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1972 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1974 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1975 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1977 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1978 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1979 returning the new database object or directory object.
1986 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1987 compatible with go 1.
1989 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1990 =========================
1992 Command-Line Interface
1993 ----------------------
1997 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1998 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1999 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2000 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2002 Mail store folder/file ignore
2004 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2005 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2006 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2008 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2009 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2011 Unified help and manual pages
2013 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2014 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2017 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2019 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2020 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2028 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2029 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2030 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2031 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2033 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2035 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2036 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2038 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2041 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2042 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2043 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2045 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2047 should be changed to:
2049 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2051 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2053 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2054 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2056 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2058 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2059 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2060 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2061 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2062 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2063 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2067 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2068 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2069 of Mailing List Archives.
2071 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2073 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2074 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2077 Show view archiving key binding changes
2079 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2080 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2081 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2082 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2083 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2086 Support text/calendar MIME type
2088 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2091 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2093 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2094 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2095 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2096 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2098 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2100 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2101 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2102 messages blue by default in the search view.
2106 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2107 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2114 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2117 Python bindings changes
2118 -----------------------
2120 Python 3.2 compatibility
2122 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2124 Added missing unicode conversions
2126 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2127 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2128 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2133 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2135 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2136 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2137 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2138 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2139 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2141 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2142 ===========================
2147 Fix error handling in python bindings
2149 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2150 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2151 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2152 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2154 Quote MML tags in replies
2156 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2157 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2158 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2159 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2160 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2161 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2162 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2163 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2165 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2166 =========================
2168 Command-Line Interface
2169 ----------------------
2173 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2174 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2175 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2176 importing new messages into the database.
2178 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2180 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2181 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2182 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2187 Automatic tag query optimization
2189 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2190 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2191 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2193 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2195 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2196 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2197 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2202 Reduction of memory leaks
2204 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2205 and fixed in this release.
2212 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2213 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2214 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2217 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2219 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2220 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2221 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2224 Improvements in saved search management
2226 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2227 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2228 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2230 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2232 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2233 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2234 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2236 New face for crypto parts headers
2238 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2239 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2240 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2243 Use space as default thousands separator
2245 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2246 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2247 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2249 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2250 buttonized id: links
2252 New function notmuch-show-advance
2254 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2255 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2256 be bound to SPC with:
2258 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2260 Various performance improvements
2265 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2266 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2269 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2270 ===========================
2275 Fix crash in python bindings
2277 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2278 for some, but not all users.
2280 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2281 ===========================
2286 Fix `--help` argument
2288 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2289 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2290 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2292 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2293 =========================
2295 New build and testing features
2296 ------------------------------
2298 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2299 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2300 prerequisites is improved.
2302 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2304 New command-line features
2305 -------------------------
2307 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2309 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2310 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2313 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2315 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2316 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2317 favour of using stdout.
2319 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2321 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2322 limit the number of results shown.
2324 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2326 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2327 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2330 New emacs UI features
2331 ---------------------
2333 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2335 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2336 starting with "tag:".
2338 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2340 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2341 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2343 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2345 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2347 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2349 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2350 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2355 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2357 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2359 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2360 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2361 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2362 requires a database rebuild:
2364 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2365 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2367 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2369 New collection of add-on tools
2370 ------------------------------
2372 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2373 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2374 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2377 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2379 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2380 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2381 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2383 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2384 ========================
2386 New, general features
2387 ---------------------
2389 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2391 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2392 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2393 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2394 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2395 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2402 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2403 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2405 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2409 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2410 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2411 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2414 Python bindings changes
2415 -----------------------
2417 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2419 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2420 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2421 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2422 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2423 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2424 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2426 Ruby bindings changes
2427 ---------------------
2429 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2430 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2431 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2432 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2437 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2439 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2440 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2442 Reply formatting cleanup
2443 ------------------------
2445 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2446 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2448 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2449 ========================
2451 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2453 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2454 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2455 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2456 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2459 Improved Build system portability
2461 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2462 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2463 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2465 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2467 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2469 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2471 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2472 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2473 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2475 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2476 ========================
2478 Vim interface improvements
2479 --------------------------
2481 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2483 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2484 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2485 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2486 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2487 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2489 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2491 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2492 * fix compose temp file name
2494 Python Bindings changes
2495 -----------------------
2497 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2499 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2500 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2502 Build-System improvements
2503 -------------------------
2505 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2507 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2510 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2511 ==========================
2516 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2518 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2519 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2521 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2522 =======================
2524 New, general features
2525 ---------------------
2527 Folder-based searching
2529 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2530 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2531 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2535 For example, one might use things such as:
2541 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2542 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2544 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2545 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2546 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2547 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2549 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2550 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2551 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2554 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2555 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2557 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2559 Support for PGP/MIME
2561 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2562 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2563 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2565 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2567 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2568 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2570 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2571 notmuch will receive these tags.
2573 New command-line features
2574 -------------------------
2576 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2578 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2579 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2581 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2583 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2584 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2585 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2587 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2589 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2590 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2591 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2592 which parts a signature part applies).
2594 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2596 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2597 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2598 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2599 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2600 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2603 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2605 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2606 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2607 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2608 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2609 by translating it internally to the new call.
2611 Performance improvements
2612 ------------------------
2614 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2616 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2617 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2618 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2620 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2621 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2623 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2625 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2626 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2627 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2629 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2630 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2631 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2632 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2634 Faster initial indexing
2636 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2637 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2638 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2640 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2642 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2643 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2644 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2645 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2647 New emacs-interface features
2648 ----------------------------
2650 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2652 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2653 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2654 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2655 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2656 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2657 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2659 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2661 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2662 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2663 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2664 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2666 User-selectable From address
2668 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2669 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2670 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2671 will prompt for the from address to use.
2673 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2674 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2675 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2677 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2678 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2679 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2682 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2684 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2685 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2687 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2689 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2691 ----- Original Message -----
2693 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2694 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2695 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2696 citations work much like conventional citations.
2698 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2700 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2701 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2702 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2703 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2704 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2706 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2707 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2709 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2711 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2712 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2713 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2715 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2717 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2718 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2719 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2720 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2721 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2723 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2725 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2728 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2730 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2732 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2734 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2737 Vim interface improvements
2738 --------------------------
2740 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2742 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2743 * Implementing archive in show view
2744 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2745 * Add delete commands
2748 Bindings improvements
2749 ---------------------
2751 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2753 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2754 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2756 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2758 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2762 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2763 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2764 `list(Messages)` works now
2765 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2767 These allow, for example:
2769 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2771 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2773 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2779 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2781 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2784 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2786 New build-system features
2787 -------------------------
2789 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2791 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2792 the configure script from some other directory:
2799 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2801 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2802 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2803 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2804 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2805 manual invocation of configure.
2807 New test-suite feature
2808 ----------------------
2810 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2812 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2813 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2814 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2815 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2816 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2819 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2821 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2822 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2823 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2824 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2825 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2826 are updated to take advantage of this.
2828 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2830 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2831 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2832 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2833 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2839 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2841 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2842 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2843 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2845 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2847 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2849 to:user@elsewhere.com
2851 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2853 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2855 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2857 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2858 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2859 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2862 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2863 from the Received headers in some cases
2865 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2866 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2868 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2870 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2872 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2874 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2875 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2876 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2878 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2879 -------------------------
2881 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2883 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2884 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2885 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2887 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2889 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2890 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2891 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2894 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2896 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2897 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2898 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2899 fixed to avoid this bug.
2901 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2903 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2904 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2906 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2907 ========================
2909 New, general features
2910 ---------------------
2912 Maildir-flag synchronization
2914 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2915 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2924 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2926 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2927 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2928 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2929 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2931 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2932 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2933 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2934 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2937 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2939 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2940 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2941 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2943 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2944 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2946 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2947 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2949 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2950 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2951 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2953 New library features
2954 --------------------
2956 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2958 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2959 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2960 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2961 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2963 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2964 message with the new function:
2966 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2968 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2969 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2970 over all available filenames for a given message.
2972 New command-line features
2973 -------------------------
2975 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2977 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2978 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2979 access to the mail store itself.
2981 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2982 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2983 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2984 name of a script containing:
2986 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2988 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2989 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2995 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2997 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2999 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3001 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3002 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3003 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3004 now produces nothing).
3006 Emacs interface improvements
3007 ----------------------------
3009 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3011 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3013 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3015 Display current thread subject in a header line
3017 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3019 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3021 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3022 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3023 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3024 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3025 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3026 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3027 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3029 Vim interface improvements
3030 --------------------------
3032 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3034 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3035 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3041 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3043 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3044 ========================
3046 New command-line features
3047 -------------------------
3049 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3051 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3052 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3053 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3055 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3056 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3057 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3058 scripts. For example:
3060 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3061 <operations-on> "$file"
3064 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3066 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3067 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3068 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3069 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3070 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3071 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3073 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3075 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3076 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3077 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3078 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3080 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3082 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3083 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3084 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3085 default rather than Bcc.
3087 New library features
3088 --------------------
3090 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3092 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3093 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3098 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3100 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3101 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3102 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3103 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3104 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3105 notmuch customize interface.
3107 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3109 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3110 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3111 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3112 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3114 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3116 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3117 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3118 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3119 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3121 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3123 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3124 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3125 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3126 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3127 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3128 notmuch customize interface.
3130 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3132 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3133 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3134 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3135 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3136 notmuch customize interface.
3138 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3140 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3141 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3142 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3143 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3146 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3148 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3149 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3150 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3153 New build-system features
3154 -------------------------
3156 Various portability fixes have been applied
3158 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3159 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3160 more portable than ever before.
3162 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3164 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3165 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3166 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3168 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3169 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3170 automatically run ldconfig.
3172 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3173 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3174 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3176 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3177 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3178 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3179 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3181 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3183 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3184 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3185 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3186 used in the resulting Makefile.
3188 New test-suite features
3189 -----------------------
3191 New modularization of test suite
3193 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3194 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3195 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3196 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3197 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3198 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3199 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3200 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3202 New testing of emacs interface
3204 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3205 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3206 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3207 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3208 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3209 database via the FCC setting.
3214 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3216 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3217 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3218 persistent error of the form:
3220 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3222 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3223 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3225 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3227 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3228 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3229 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3231 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3233 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3234 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3235 parsing the notmuch results).
3237 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3239 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3242 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3243 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3244 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3249 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3251 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3252 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3253 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3254 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3255 the emacs interface.
3257 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3259 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3260 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3261 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3263 Python-binding fixes
3264 --------------------
3266 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3268 Debian-specific fixes
3269 ---------------------
3271 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3273 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3274 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3275 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3278 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3279 ==========================
3284 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3286 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3287 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3288 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3289 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3291 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3293 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3294 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3295 want notmuch to crash.
3300 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3302 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3303 directory does not exist
3308 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3310 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3311 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3313 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3314 ========================
3316 New command-line features
3317 -------------------------
3319 User-configurable tags for new messages
3321 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3322 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3323 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3324 to specify this value.
3326 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3328 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3329 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3330 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3332 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3334 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3335 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3337 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3339 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3340 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3341 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3342 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3343 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3346 Indication of author names that match a search
3348 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3349 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3350 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3351 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3352 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3353 messages in the thread are listed first.
3355 New: Python bindings
3356 --------------------
3358 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3359 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3360 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3361 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3363 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3364 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3365 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3368 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3369 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3370 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3372 Emacs interface improvements
3373 ----------------------------
3375 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3377 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3378 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3379 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3380 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3381 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3382 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3383 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3384 but without any of the disadvantages).
3386 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3387 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3388 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3391 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3392 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3393 instead running something like:
3395 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3397 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3398 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3399 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3402 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3404 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3405 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3406 tweaked by the user.
3408 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3409 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3410 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3413 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3414 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3415 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3418 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3420 This support currently relies on an external program,
3421 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3422 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3423 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3424 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3425 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3428 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3429 notmuch) is available via:
3431 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3433 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3434 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3435 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3437 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3439 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3440 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3441 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3442 making this automatic in a future release.
3444 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3446 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3447 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3448 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3449 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3450 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3451 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3454 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3456 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3457 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3458 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3460 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3462 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3463 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3464 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3466 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3467 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3468 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3469 other representation.
3471 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3472 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3475 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3477 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3478 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3479 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3481 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3482 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3483 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3485 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3487 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3488 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3489 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3490 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3491 to display the search result.
3493 More flexible handling of header visibility
3495 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3496 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3497 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3498 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3499 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3500 with the 'h' keybinding.
3502 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3503 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3504 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3506 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3508 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3510 Customizable formatting of search results
3512 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3513 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3514 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3516 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3518 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3520 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3525 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3527 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3528 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3529 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3530 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3536 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3538 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3539 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3541 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3543 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3544 accept are now all accepted.
3549 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3551 Better display of output from failed tests
3553 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3554 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3556 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3557 ========================
3559 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3560 detailed release notes this time!
3562 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3563 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3565 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3566 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3567 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3568 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3575 Better guessing of From: header
3577 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3578 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3579 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3580 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3581 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3584 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3586 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3587 guaranteed to match all messages.
3589 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3591 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3592 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3593 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3594 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3595 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3598 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3601 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3602 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3603 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3604 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3609 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3611 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3612 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3613 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3614 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3616 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3618 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3620 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3621 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3622 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3624 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3626 Previously, the user might see:
3628 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3632 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3634 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3635 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3636 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3637 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3639 Emacs client features
3640 ---------------------
3642 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3644 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3645 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3646 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3647 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3648 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3650 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3653 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3654 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3655 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3656 search with the '*' binding.
3658 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3660 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3661 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3664 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3666 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3667 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3668 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3670 Build-system features
3671 ---------------------
3673 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3675 Add support to configure for many standard options
3677 We include actual support for:
3679 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3681 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3683 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3684 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3686 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3687 separate "make install-emacs"
3689 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3691 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3692 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3693 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3695 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3698 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3699 ========================
3701 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3703 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3704 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3706 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3707 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3708 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3709 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3710 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3711 tags from messages in a thread.
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