1 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
2 ===========================
7 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
8 better late than never.
11 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
12 =========================
14 Command Line Interface
15 ----------------------
17 Support for re-indexing existing messages
19 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
20 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
21 change the way specific messages are indexed.
23 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
24 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
25 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
27 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
29 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
31 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
33 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
34 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
35 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
36 the setting of `new.tags`.
38 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
40 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
42 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
44 This inserts into the top level folder.
46 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
48 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
50 New option --output=address for notmuch address
52 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
54 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
56 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
57 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
58 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
60 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
65 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
67 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
68 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
69 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
70 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
71 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
72 config set index.decrypt true".
74 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
75 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
76 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
77 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
78 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
79 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
80 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
81 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
83 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
84 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
85 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
86 this feature without considering the security of your index.
91 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
93 Use make-process when available
95 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
96 notmuch command without using temporary files.
101 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
103 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
104 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
105 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
106 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
108 New functions to count files
110 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
111 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
113 New function to remove properties
115 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
116 drop all properties with a common pattern:
117 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
119 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
121 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
122 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
123 possibility of NULL was not documented.
125 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
127 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
128 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
129 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
130 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
131 operator may decide to change from message to message.
138 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
139 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
140 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
146 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
148 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
149 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
151 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
153 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
155 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
157 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
162 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
163 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
165 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
166 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
167 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
168 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
169 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
170 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
175 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
177 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
178 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
179 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
180 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
182 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
183 ===========================
188 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
189 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
192 Command Line Interface
193 ----------------------
195 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
196 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
199 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
200 ===========================
202 Command Line Interface
203 ----------------------
205 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
206 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
211 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
214 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
215 ===========================
220 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
223 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
224 =========================
229 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
231 Skip HTML tags when indexing
233 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
235 Command Line Interface
236 ----------------------
238 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
240 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
245 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
247 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
248 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
251 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
256 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
258 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
259 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
261 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
263 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
264 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
267 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
269 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
271 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
273 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
274 ===========================
276 Command Line Interface
277 ----------------------
279 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
284 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
286 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
287 ===========================
292 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
294 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
295 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
298 Command Line Interface
299 ----------------------
301 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
303 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
305 Fix bug in dump header
307 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
308 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
309 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
314 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
316 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
317 =========================
322 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
324 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
327 Command Line Interface
328 ----------------------
330 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
332 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
333 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
334 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
336 New default output format to 3
338 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
339 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
340 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
341 default format changes.
346 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
348 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
349 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
350 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
351 or tree view to resume.
353 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
354 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
355 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
358 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
359 they were when you postponed in the final message.
363 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
364 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
365 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
366 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
367 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
371 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
372 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
373 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
374 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
375 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
376 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
380 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
381 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
383 Stop display of `application/*` parts
385 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
386 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
387 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
388 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
389 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
390 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
391 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
392 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
395 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
397 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
398 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
399 only tagged the current thread.)
401 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
403 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
404 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
405 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
407 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
409 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
410 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
411 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
412 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
413 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
414 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
415 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
417 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
419 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
420 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
421 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
426 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
428 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
431 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
433 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
436 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
437 ===========================
442 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
444 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
445 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
446 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
449 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
450 ===========================
452 Command Line Interface
453 ----------------------
455 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
460 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
462 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
463 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
464 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
466 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
467 ===========================
472 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
473 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
475 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
476 ===========================
478 Command Line Interface
479 ----------------------
481 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
483 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
484 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
485 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
490 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
492 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
493 ===========================
495 Command Line Interface
496 ----------------------
498 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
503 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
505 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
506 ===========================
511 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
513 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
514 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
515 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
517 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
519 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
521 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
522 ===========================
527 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
529 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
534 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
536 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
537 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
538 the original colours.
540 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
541 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
543 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
545 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
546 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
547 bug, and hence the test.
549 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
550 =========================
552 General (Xapian 1.4+)
553 ---------------------
555 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
557 Support for single argument date: queries
559 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
561 Support for blocking opens
563 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
564 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
566 Support for named queries
568 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
569 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
570 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
577 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
578 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
579 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
580 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
582 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
584 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
589 Support for compile time options
591 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
592 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
595 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
597 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
598 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
599 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
600 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
601 scripts to ignore it.
606 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
608 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
609 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
610 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
612 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
613 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
614 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
615 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
616 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
617 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
618 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
620 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
621 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
624 Make internal address completion customizable
626 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
627 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
628 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
629 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
632 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
634 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
635 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
636 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
637 completion for the current buffer.
639 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
640 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
641 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
645 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
646 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
647 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
648 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
649 will be added instead.
651 Face customization is easier
653 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
654 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
655 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
656 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
658 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
663 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
668 Go bindings moved to contrib
670 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
672 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
674 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
675 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
677 The same issue occured with sort modes.
679 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
680 ===========================
687 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
688 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
690 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
692 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
694 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
695 ===========================
700 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
702 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
707 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
712 Use `env` to locate perl.
717 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
719 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
721 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
723 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
725 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
726 =========================
733 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
734 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
736 Limited support for S/MIME messages
738 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
739 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
740 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
745 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
746 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
747 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
749 Command Line Interface
750 ----------------------
752 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
754 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
759 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
764 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
766 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
767 parts are now included in replies.
769 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
770 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
771 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
772 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
774 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
776 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
778 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
780 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
781 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
782 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
783 forwards only the current message.
785 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
787 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
788 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
789 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
790 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
791 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
792 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
793 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
794 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
797 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
798 longer generate empty buffers
800 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
801 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
802 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
803 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
804 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
806 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
808 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
811 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
813 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
816 Address completion improvements
818 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
819 you previously configured one, customize the variable
820 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
821 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
822 interactive address completion.
824 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
826 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
827 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
828 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
833 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
834 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
835 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
841 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
842 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
843 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
844 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
845 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
846 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
848 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
849 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
850 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
851 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
852 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
853 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
855 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
856 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
858 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
859 =========================
864 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
867 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
869 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
870 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
871 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
873 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
874 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
876 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
877 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
878 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
880 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
882 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
883 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
884 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
885 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
886 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
887 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
892 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
893 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
896 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
899 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
901 Command Line Interface
902 ----------------------
904 Database revision tracking
906 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
907 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
908 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
909 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
911 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
913 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
914 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
915 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
916 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
917 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
918 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
919 manual page for further information.
924 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
926 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
927 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
929 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
931 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
932 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
933 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
935 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
937 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
939 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
940 customization as well.
942 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
944 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
946 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
948 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
950 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
951 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
952 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
953 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
955 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
957 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
958 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
959 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
960 this variable to 10000.
965 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
966 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
968 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
970 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
971 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
972 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
973 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
974 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
975 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
976 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
977 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
978 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
981 Database revision tracking
983 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
984 query parser and the new function
985 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
987 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
991 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
992 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
993 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
994 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
999 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1001 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1002 ===========================
1007 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1009 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1010 ===========================
1015 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1017 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1018 =========================
1020 Command-Line Interface
1021 ----------------------
1023 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1025 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1026 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1027 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1029 Path to gpg is now configurable
1031 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1032 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1037 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
1039 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1044 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1049 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1054 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1056 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1057 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1059 New error logging facility
1061 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1062 output formerly printed to stderr.
1064 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1066 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1068 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1070 Fix for rounding of seconds
1075 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1077 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1078 docmumentation has been removed.
1080 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1082 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1083 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1088 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1089 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1090 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1095 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1096 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1097 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1098 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1099 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1100 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1103 git checkout config origin/config
1105 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1107 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1108 =========================
1113 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1114 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1115 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1116 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1117 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1118 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1119 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1121 Command-Line Interface
1122 ----------------------
1124 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1126 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1127 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1128 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1129 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1130 script callers should still check the return value.
1132 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1134 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1135 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1136 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1137 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1138 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1139 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1140 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1142 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1144 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1145 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1146 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1148 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1150 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1151 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1152 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1153 currently unmaintained.
1155 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1157 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1158 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1159 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1160 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1162 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1164 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1165 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1166 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1167 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1168 count of duplicate addresses.
1173 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1175 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1176 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1177 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1180 Improved handling of the unread tag
1182 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1183 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1184 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1185 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1186 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1187 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1188 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1190 Expanded default saved search settings
1192 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1193 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1195 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1197 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1198 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1199 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1201 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1203 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1204 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1205 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1206 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1207 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1208 the variable for details.
1213 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1215 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1216 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1217 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1218 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1220 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1222 Previously, library users were required to call
1223 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1224 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1225 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1226 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1227 too out of date for that API.
1229 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1231 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1232 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1233 atomic section will be aborted.
1235 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1236 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1238 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1240 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1241 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1242 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1243 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1244 messages into the same thread.
1249 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1250 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1251 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1252 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1253 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1254 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1259 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1260 from the config file. Use something like:
1264 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1265 "footer": "</body></html>",
1274 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1279 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1280 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1281 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1283 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1284 ===========================
1289 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1291 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1293 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1295 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1296 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1298 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1300 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1303 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1304 ===========================
1306 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1311 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1313 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1315 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1317 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1319 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1325 Use --quick when starting emacs
1327 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1329 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1331 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1333 Command-Line Interface
1334 ----------------------
1336 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1337 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1342 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1344 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1345 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1347 Fix for phrase indexing
1349 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1350 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1351 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1356 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1358 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1359 unintentionally removed.
1361 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1362 =========================
1367 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1368 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1369 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1370 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1371 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1372 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1373 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1374 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1375 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1381 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1383 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1384 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1385 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1386 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1387 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1388 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1389 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1390 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1392 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1394 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1395 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1396 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1397 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1400 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1402 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1403 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1404 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1405 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1406 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1407 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1408 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1413 Notmuch database upgrade
1415 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1416 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1417 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1418 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1419 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1420 released version of Notmuch before now.
1422 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1424 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1425 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1426 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1427 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1429 Message header parsing changes
1431 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1432 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1433 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1434 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1435 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1436 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1438 Command-Line Interface
1439 ----------------------
1441 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1443 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1445 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1447 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1449 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1451 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1452 user does not want it.
1454 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1456 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1457 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
1458 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1459 support formatted output.
1461 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1463 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1464 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1465 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1473 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1474 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1475 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1476 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1477 `~/.emacs` with these.
1479 Changed format for saved searches
1481 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1482 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1483 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1484 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1487 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1488 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1489 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1490 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1492 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1493 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1494 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1496 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1497 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1498 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1499 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1500 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1502 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1504 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1505 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1506 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1508 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1510 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1511 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1512 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1513 message had been unread).
1515 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1516 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1517 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1518 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1520 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1521 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1522 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1524 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1525 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1526 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1527 to tags already present.
1531 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1532 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1533 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1534 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1535 these differ from each other.
1536 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1538 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1540 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1541 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1542 for these Emacs versions.
1544 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1546 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1547 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1549 Bug fixes for sender identities
1551 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1552 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1553 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1555 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1557 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1558 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1559 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1560 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1562 Reply pushes mark before signature
1564 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1565 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1566 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1568 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1570 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1571 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1577 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1578 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1580 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1581 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1582 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1583 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1585 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1586 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1587 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1588 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1589 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1591 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
1593 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1594 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1596 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1597 =========================
1599 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1600 ---------------------------------------
1602 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1603 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1604 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1605 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1606 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1607 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1608 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1612 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1613 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1615 Command-Line Interface
1616 ----------------------
1618 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1620 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1621 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1622 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1623 print for each message.
1625 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1626 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1627 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1628 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1630 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1632 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1633 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1634 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1636 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1638 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1639 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1640 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1641 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1643 `notmuch compact` command
1645 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1646 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1647 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1648 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1649 move the compacted database into place.
1654 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1656 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1657 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1658 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1659 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1660 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1661 and multiple threads.
1663 Using `notmuch-tree`
1665 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1667 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1668 search, show and tree mode itself)
1670 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1673 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1674 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1676 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1678 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1679 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1680 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1681 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1682 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1683 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1684 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1686 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1688 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1689 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1690 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1691 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1692 thread when the search was performed.
1694 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1696 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1697 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1698 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1700 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1702 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1703 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1706 Built-in help improvements
1708 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1709 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1710 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1712 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1714 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1715 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1716 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1718 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1720 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1721 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1723 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1725 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1726 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1727 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1728 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1730 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1732 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1733 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1734 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1735 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1737 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1739 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1740 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1741 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1743 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1745 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1746 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1747 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1749 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1751 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1752 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1753 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1754 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1755 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1757 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1759 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1760 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1761 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1762 the body part of the message.
1767 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1768 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1769 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1771 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1772 =========================
1774 Command-Line Interface
1775 ----------------------
1777 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1779 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1780 folder and notmuch index.
1782 `notmuch count --batch` option
1784 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1785 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1787 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1789 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1790 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1791 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1794 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1796 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1797 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1798 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1799 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1800 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1803 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1805 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1806 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1808 Top level option to specify configuration file
1810 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1811 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1813 Bash command-line completion
1815 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1816 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1817 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1818 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1819 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1820 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1821 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1822 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1823 bash-completion package.
1825 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1830 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1832 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1833 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1834 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1835 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1836 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1837 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1838 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1839 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1841 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1843 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1844 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1845 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1847 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1849 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1850 previous thread in the search results.
1852 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1854 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1855 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1857 Faster search and show
1859 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1860 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1861 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1862 threads should show faster.
1866 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1867 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1868 in question was now removed from this release.
1873 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1874 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1879 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1881 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1882 ===========================
1887 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1889 Internal test framework changes
1890 -------------------------------
1892 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1893 being unimplemented.
1895 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1896 ===========================
1898 Internal test framework changes
1899 -------------------------------
1901 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1902 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1904 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1905 =========================
1910 Date range search support
1912 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1913 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1914 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1915 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1916 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1919 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1921 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1922 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1923 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1924 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1925 but may be removed in a future release.
1927 Command-Line Interface
1928 ----------------------
1930 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1932 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1933 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1935 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1937 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1938 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1939 officially deprecated.
1941 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1943 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1944 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1945 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1947 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1949 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1950 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1953 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1954 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1955 dump/restore format.
1957 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1959 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1960 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1961 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1963 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1965 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1966 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1967 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1969 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1971 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1972 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1973 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1974 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1979 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1981 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1982 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1983 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1984 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1986 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1988 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1989 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1990 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1991 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1992 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1993 the behavior of this, see
1994 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1995 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1997 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1998 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1999 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2001 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2003 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2004 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2007 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2009 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2010 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2011 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2012 simply displayed in place of the message.
2014 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2016 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2017 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2019 Improved text/calendar content handling
2021 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2022 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2023 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2024 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2026 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2028 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2029 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2030 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2031 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2033 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2035 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2036 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2037 for HTML email containing images.
2039 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2041 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2043 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2045 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2048 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2050 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2051 the point where it was.
2053 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2055 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2056 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2057 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2058 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2059 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2061 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2063 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2064 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2065 thread instead of the message id.
2067 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2068 -----------------------------
2070 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2071 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2072 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2073 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2074 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2075 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2076 further details and installation.
2081 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2083 Internal test framework changes
2084 -------------------------------
2086 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2088 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2089 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2090 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2091 can result in buggy behavior.
2093 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2094 =========================
2099 Maildir tag synchronization
2101 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2102 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2103 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2104 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2105 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2106 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2109 Command-Line Interface
2110 ----------------------
2112 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2113 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2114 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2115 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2116 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2122 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2124 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2126 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2127 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2128 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2130 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2132 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2133 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2134 span multiple lines.
2136 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2138 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2139 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2140 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2141 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2142 inside the result or message.
2144 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2146 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2147 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2149 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2150 user-specified formatting
2152 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2153 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2154 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2155 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2156 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2158 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2159 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2161 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2162 ===========================
2167 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2168 compilation error for this contrib package.
2170 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2171 ===========================
2176 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2178 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2179 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2180 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2181 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2183 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2184 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2187 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2188 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2189 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2190 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2193 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2195 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2198 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2199 =========================
2201 Command-Line Interface
2202 ----------------------
2206 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2207 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2208 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2209 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2211 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2212 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2213 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2214 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2218 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2219 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2221 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2222 tag in your query, for example:
2224 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2226 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2227 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2229 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2230 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2232 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2234 Raw show format changes
2236 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2237 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2238 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2239 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2240 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2241 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2242 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2243 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2245 Listing configuration items
2247 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2253 Changes to tagging interface
2255 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2256 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2257 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2258 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2259 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2260 for more information.
2262 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2263 may need to update in custom configurations.
2265 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2267 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2268 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2269 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2270 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2273 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2274 -----------------------------
2276 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2277 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2278 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2279 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2280 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2281 contrib/ from now on.
2286 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2287 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2289 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2290 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2292 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2293 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2294 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2296 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2297 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2299 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2300 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2301 returning the new database object or directory object.
2308 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2309 compatible with go 1.
2311 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2312 =========================
2314 Command-Line Interface
2315 ----------------------
2319 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2320 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2321 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2322 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2324 Mail store folder/file ignore
2326 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2327 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2328 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2330 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2331 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2333 Unified help and manual pages
2335 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2336 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2339 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2341 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2342 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2350 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2351 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2352 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2353 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2355 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2357 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2358 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2360 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2363 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2364 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2365 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2367 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2369 should be changed to:
2371 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2373 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2375 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2376 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2378 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2380 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2381 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2382 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2383 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2384 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2385 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2389 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2390 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2391 of Mailing List Archives.
2393 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2395 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2396 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2399 Show view archiving key binding changes
2401 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2402 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2403 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2404 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2405 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2408 Support text/calendar MIME type
2410 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2413 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2415 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2416 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2417 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2418 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2420 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2422 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2423 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2424 messages blue by default in the search view.
2428 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2429 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2436 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2439 Python bindings changes
2440 -----------------------
2442 Python 3.2 compatibility
2444 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2446 Added missing unicode conversions
2448 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2449 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2450 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2455 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2457 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2458 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2459 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2460 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2461 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2463 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2464 ===========================
2469 Fix error handling in python bindings
2471 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2472 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2473 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2474 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2476 Quote MML tags in replies
2478 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2479 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2480 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2481 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2482 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2483 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2484 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2485 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2487 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2488 =========================
2490 Command-Line Interface
2491 ----------------------
2495 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2496 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2497 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2498 importing new messages into the database.
2500 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2502 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2503 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2504 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2509 Automatic tag query optimization
2511 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2512 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2513 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2515 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2517 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2518 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2519 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2524 Reduction of memory leaks
2526 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2527 and fixed in this release.
2534 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2535 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2536 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2539 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2541 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2542 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2543 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2546 Improvements in saved search management
2548 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2549 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2550 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2552 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2554 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2555 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2556 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2558 New face for crypto parts headers
2560 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2561 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2562 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2565 Use space as default thousands separator
2567 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2568 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2569 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2571 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2572 buttonized id: links
2574 New function notmuch-show-advance
2576 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2577 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2578 be bound to SPC with:
2580 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2582 Various performance improvements
2587 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2588 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2591 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2592 ===========================
2597 Fix crash in python bindings
2599 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2600 for some, but not all users.
2602 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2603 ===========================
2608 Fix `--help` argument
2610 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2611 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2612 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2614 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2615 =========================
2617 New build and testing features
2618 ------------------------------
2620 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2621 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2622 prerequisites is improved.
2624 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2626 New command-line features
2627 -------------------------
2629 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2631 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2632 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2635 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2637 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2638 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2639 favour of using stdout.
2641 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2643 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2644 limit the number of results shown.
2646 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2648 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2649 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2652 New emacs UI features
2653 ---------------------
2655 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2657 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2658 starting with "tag:".
2660 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2662 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2663 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2665 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2667 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2669 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2671 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2672 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2677 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2679 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2681 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2682 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2683 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2684 requires a database rebuild:
2686 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2687 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2689 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2691 New collection of add-on tools
2692 ------------------------------
2694 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2695 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2696 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2699 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2701 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2702 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2703 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2705 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2706 ========================
2708 New, general features
2709 ---------------------
2711 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2713 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2714 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2715 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2716 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2717 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2724 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2725 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2727 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2731 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2732 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2733 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2736 Python bindings changes
2737 -----------------------
2739 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2741 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2742 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2743 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2744 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2745 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2746 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2748 Ruby bindings changes
2749 ---------------------
2751 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2752 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2753 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2754 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2759 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2761 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2762 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2764 Reply formatting cleanup
2765 ------------------------
2767 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2768 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2770 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2771 ========================
2773 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2775 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2776 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2777 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2778 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2781 Improved Build system portability
2783 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2784 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2785 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2787 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2789 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2791 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2793 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2794 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2795 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2797 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2798 ========================
2800 Vim interface improvements
2801 --------------------------
2803 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2805 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2806 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2807 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2808 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2809 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2811 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2813 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2814 * fix compose temp file name
2816 Python Bindings changes
2817 -----------------------
2819 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2821 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2822 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2824 Build-System improvements
2825 -------------------------
2827 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2829 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2832 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2833 ==========================
2838 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2840 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2841 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2843 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2844 =======================
2846 New, general features
2847 ---------------------
2849 Folder-based searching
2851 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2852 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2853 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2857 For example, one might use things such as:
2863 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2864 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2866 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2867 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2868 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2869 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2871 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2872 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2873 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2876 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2877 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2879 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2881 Support for PGP/MIME
2883 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2884 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2885 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2887 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2889 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2890 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2892 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2893 notmuch will receive these tags.
2895 New command-line features
2896 -------------------------
2898 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2900 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2901 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2903 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2905 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2906 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2907 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2909 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2911 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2912 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2913 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2914 which parts a signature part applies).
2916 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2918 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2919 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2920 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2921 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2922 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2925 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2927 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2928 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2929 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2930 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2931 by translating it internally to the new call.
2933 Performance improvements
2934 ------------------------
2936 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2938 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2939 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2940 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2942 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2943 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2945 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2947 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2948 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2949 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2951 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2952 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2953 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2954 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2956 Faster initial indexing
2958 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2959 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2960 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2962 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2964 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2965 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2966 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2967 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2969 New emacs-interface features
2970 ----------------------------
2972 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2974 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2975 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2976 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2977 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2978 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2979 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2981 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2983 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2984 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2985 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2986 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2988 User-selectable From address
2990 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2991 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2992 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2993 will prompt for the from address to use.
2995 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2996 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2997 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2999 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3000 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3001 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3004 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3006 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3007 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3009 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3011 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3013 ----- Original Message -----
3015 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3016 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3017 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3018 citations work much like conventional citations.
3020 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3022 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3023 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3024 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3025 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3026 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3028 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3029 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3031 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3033 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3034 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3035 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3037 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3039 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3040 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3041 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3042 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3043 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3045 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3047 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3050 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3052 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3054 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3056 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3059 Vim interface improvements
3060 --------------------------
3062 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3064 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3065 * Implementing archive in show view
3066 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3067 * Add delete commands
3070 Bindings improvements
3071 ---------------------
3073 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3075 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3076 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3078 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3080 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3084 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3085 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3086 `list(Messages)` works now
3087 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3089 These allow, for example:
3091 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3093 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3095 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3101 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3103 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3106 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3108 New build-system features
3109 -------------------------
3111 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3113 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3114 the configure script from some other directory:
3121 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3123 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3124 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3125 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3126 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3127 manual invocation of configure.
3129 New test-suite feature
3130 ----------------------
3132 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3134 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3135 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3136 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3137 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3138 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3141 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3143 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3144 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3145 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3146 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3147 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3148 are updated to take advantage of this.
3150 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3152 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3153 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3154 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3155 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3161 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3163 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3164 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3165 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3167 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3169 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3171 to:user@elsewhere.com
3173 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3175 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3177 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3179 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3180 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3181 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3184 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3185 from the Received headers in some cases
3187 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3188 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3190 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3192 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3194 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3196 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3197 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3198 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3200 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3201 -------------------------
3203 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3205 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3206 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3207 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3209 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3211 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3212 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3213 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3216 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3218 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3219 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3220 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3221 fixed to avoid this bug.
3223 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3225 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3226 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3228 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3229 ========================
3231 New, general features
3232 ---------------------
3234 Maildir-flag synchronization
3236 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3237 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3246 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3248 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3249 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3250 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3251 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3253 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3254 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3255 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3256 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3259 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3261 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3262 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3263 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3265 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3266 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3268 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3269 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3271 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3272 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3273 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3275 New library features
3276 --------------------
3278 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3280 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3281 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3282 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3283 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3285 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3286 message with the new function:
3288 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3290 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3291 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3292 over all available filenames for a given message.
3294 New command-line features
3295 -------------------------
3297 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3299 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3300 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3301 access to the mail store itself.
3303 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3304 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3305 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3306 name of a script containing:
3308 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3310 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3311 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3317 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3319 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3321 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3323 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3324 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3325 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3326 now produces nothing).
3328 Emacs interface improvements
3329 ----------------------------
3331 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3333 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3335 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3337 Display current thread subject in a header line
3339 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3341 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3343 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3344 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3345 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3346 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3347 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3348 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3349 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3351 Vim interface improvements
3352 --------------------------
3354 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3356 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3357 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3363 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3365 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3366 ========================
3368 New command-line features
3369 -------------------------
3371 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3373 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3374 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3375 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3377 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3378 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3379 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3380 scripts. For example:
3382 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3383 <operations-on> "$file"
3386 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3388 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3389 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3390 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3391 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3392 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3393 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3395 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3397 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3398 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3399 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3400 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3402 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3404 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3405 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3406 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3407 default rather than Bcc.
3409 New library features
3410 --------------------
3412 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3414 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3415 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3420 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3422 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3423 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3424 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3425 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3426 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3427 notmuch customize interface.
3429 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3431 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3432 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3433 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3434 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3436 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3438 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3439 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3440 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3441 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3443 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3445 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3446 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3447 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3448 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3449 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3450 notmuch customize interface.
3452 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3454 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3455 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3456 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3457 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3458 notmuch customize interface.
3460 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3462 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3463 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3464 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3465 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3468 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3470 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3471 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3472 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3475 New build-system features
3476 -------------------------
3478 Various portability fixes have been applied
3480 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3481 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3482 more portable than ever before.
3484 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3486 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3487 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3488 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3490 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3491 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3492 automatically run ldconfig.
3494 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3495 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3496 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3498 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3499 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3500 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3501 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3503 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3505 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3506 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3507 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3508 used in the resulting Makefile.
3510 New test-suite features
3511 -----------------------
3513 New modularization of test suite
3515 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3516 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3517 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3518 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3519 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3520 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3521 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3522 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3524 New testing of emacs interface
3526 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3527 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3528 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3529 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3530 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3531 database via the FCC setting.
3536 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3538 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3539 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3540 persistent error of the form:
3542 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3544 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3545 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3547 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3549 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3550 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3551 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3553 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3555 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3556 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3557 parsing the notmuch results).
3559 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3561 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3564 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3565 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3566 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3571 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3573 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3574 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3575 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3576 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3577 the emacs interface.
3579 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3581 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3582 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3583 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3585 Python-binding fixes
3586 --------------------
3588 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3590 Debian-specific fixes
3591 ---------------------
3593 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3595 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3596 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3597 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3600 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3601 ==========================
3606 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3608 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3609 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3610 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3611 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3613 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3615 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3616 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3617 want notmuch to crash.
3622 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3624 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3625 directory does not exist
3630 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3632 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3633 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3635 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3636 ========================
3638 New command-line features
3639 -------------------------
3641 User-configurable tags for new messages
3643 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3644 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3645 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3646 to specify this value.
3648 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3650 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3651 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3652 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3654 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3656 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3657 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3659 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3661 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3662 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3663 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3664 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3665 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3668 Indication of author names that match a search
3670 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3671 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3672 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3673 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3674 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3675 messages in the thread are listed first.
3677 New: Python bindings
3678 --------------------
3680 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3681 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3682 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3683 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3685 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3686 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3687 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3690 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3691 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3692 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3694 Emacs interface improvements
3695 ----------------------------
3697 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3699 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3700 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3701 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3702 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3703 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3704 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3705 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3706 but without any of the disadvantages).
3708 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3709 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3710 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3713 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3714 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3715 instead running something like:
3717 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3719 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3720 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3721 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3724 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3726 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3727 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3728 tweaked by the user.
3730 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3731 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3732 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3735 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3736 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3737 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3740 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3742 This support currently relies on an external program,
3743 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3744 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3745 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3746 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3747 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3750 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3751 notmuch) is available via:
3753 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3755 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3756 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3757 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3759 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3761 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3762 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3763 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3764 making this automatic in a future release.
3766 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3768 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3769 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3770 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3771 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3772 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3773 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3776 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3778 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3779 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3780 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3782 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3784 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3785 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3786 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3788 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3789 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3790 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3791 other representation.
3793 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3794 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3797 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3799 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3800 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3801 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3803 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3804 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3805 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3807 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3809 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3810 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3811 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3812 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3813 to display the search result.
3815 More flexible handling of header visibility
3817 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3818 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3819 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3820 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3821 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3822 with the 'h' keybinding.
3824 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3825 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3826 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3828 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3830 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3832 Customizable formatting of search results
3834 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3835 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3836 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3838 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3840 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3842 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3847 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3849 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3850 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3851 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3852 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3858 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3860 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3861 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3863 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3865 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3866 accept are now all accepted.
3871 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3873 Better display of output from failed tests
3875 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3876 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3878 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3879 ========================
3881 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3882 detailed release notes this time!
3884 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3885 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3887 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3888 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3889 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3890 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3897 Better guessing of From: header
3899 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3900 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3901 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3902 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3903 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3906 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3908 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3909 guaranteed to match all messages.
3911 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3913 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3914 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3915 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3916 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3917 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3920 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3923 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3924 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3925 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3926 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3931 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3933 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3934 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3935 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3936 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3938 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3940 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3942 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3943 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3944 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3946 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3948 Previously, the user might see:
3950 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3954 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3956 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3957 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3958 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3959 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3961 Emacs client features
3962 ---------------------
3964 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3966 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3967 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3968 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3969 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3970 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3972 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3975 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3976 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3977 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3978 search with the '*' binding.
3980 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3982 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3983 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3986 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3988 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3989 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3990 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3992 Build-system features
3993 ---------------------
3995 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3997 Add support to configure for many standard options
3999 We include actual support for:
4001 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4003 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4005 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4006 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4008 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4009 separate "make install-emacs"
4011 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4013 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4014 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4015 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4017 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4020 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4021 ========================
4023 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4025 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4026 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4028 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4029 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4030 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4031 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4032 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4033 tags from messages in a thread.
4040 indent-tabs-mode: nil