1 Notmuch 0.23 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
9 Support for single argument date: queries
11 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
13 Support for blocking opens
15 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
16 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
18 Support for named queries
20 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
21 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
22 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
27 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
29 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
34 Support for compile time options
36 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
37 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
40 Dump/Restore support for configuration information
42 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
43 named queries) is dumped and restored. Any new information in the
44 dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing scripts to ignore
47 Refactor notmuch-reply, make handling of duplicate headers consistent
52 Face customization is easier
54 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
55 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
56 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
57 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
59 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
64 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
69 Go bindings moved to contrib
71 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
73 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
75 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
76 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
78 The same issue occured with sort modes.
80 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
81 ===========================
88 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
89 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
91 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
93 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
95 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
96 ===========================
101 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
103 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
108 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
113 Use `env` to locate perl.
118 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
120 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
122 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
124 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
126 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
127 =========================
134 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
135 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
137 Limited support for S/MIME messages
139 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
140 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
141 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
146 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
147 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
148 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
150 Command Line Interface
151 ----------------------
153 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
155 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
160 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
165 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
167 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
168 parts are now included in replies.
170 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
171 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
172 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
173 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
175 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
177 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
179 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
181 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
182 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
183 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
184 forwards only the current message.
186 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
188 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
189 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
190 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
191 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
192 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
193 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
194 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
195 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
198 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
199 longer generate empty buffers
201 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
202 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
203 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
204 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
205 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
207 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
209 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
212 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
214 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
217 Address completion improvements
219 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
220 you previously configured one, customize the variable
221 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
222 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
223 interactive address completion.
225 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
227 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
228 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
229 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
234 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
235 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
236 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
242 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
243 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
244 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
245 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
246 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
247 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
249 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
250 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
251 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
252 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
253 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
254 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
256 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
257 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
259 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
260 =========================
265 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
268 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
270 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
271 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
272 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
274 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
275 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
277 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
278 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
279 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
281 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
283 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
284 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
285 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
286 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
287 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
288 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
293 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
294 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
297 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
300 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
302 Command Line Interface
303 ----------------------
305 Database revision tracking
307 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
308 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
309 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
310 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
312 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
314 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
315 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
316 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
317 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
318 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
319 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
320 manual page for further information.
325 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
327 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
328 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
330 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
332 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
333 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
334 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
336 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
338 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
340 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
341 customization as well.
343 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
345 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
347 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
349 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
351 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
352 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
353 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
354 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
356 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
358 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
359 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
360 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
361 this variable to 10000.
366 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
367 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
369 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
371 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
372 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
373 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
374 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
375 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
376 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
377 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
378 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
379 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
382 Database revision tracking
384 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
385 query parser and the new function
386 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
388 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
392 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
393 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
394 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
395 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
400 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
402 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
403 ===========================
408 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
410 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
411 ===========================
416 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
418 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
419 =========================
421 Command-Line Interface
422 ----------------------
424 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
426 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
427 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
428 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
430 Path to gpg is now configurable
432 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
433 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
438 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
440 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
445 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
450 Support messages without Message-IDs.
455 Undeprecate single message mboxes
457 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
458 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
460 New error logging facility
462 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
463 output formerly printed to stderr.
465 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
467 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
469 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
471 Fix for rounding of seconds
476 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
478 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
479 docmumentation has been removed.
481 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
483 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
484 some material from the relicensed wiki.
489 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
490 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
491 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
496 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
497 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
498 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
499 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
500 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
501 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
504 git checkout config origin/config
506 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
508 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
509 =========================
514 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
515 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
516 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
517 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
518 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
519 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
520 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
522 Command-Line Interface
523 ----------------------
525 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
527 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
528 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
529 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
530 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
531 script callers should still check the return value.
533 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
535 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
536 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
537 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
538 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
539 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
540 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
541 and returning success even if indexing fails).
543 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
545 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
546 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
547 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
549 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
551 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
552 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
553 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
554 currently unmaintained.
556 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
558 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
559 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
560 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
561 have at least `N` files associated with them.
563 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
565 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
566 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
567 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
568 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
569 count of duplicate addresses.
574 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
576 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
577 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
578 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
581 Improved handling of the unread tag
583 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
584 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
585 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
586 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
587 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
588 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
589 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
591 Expanded default saved search settings
593 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
594 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
596 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
598 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
599 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
600 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
602 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
604 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
605 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
606 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
607 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
608 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
609 the variable for details.
614 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
616 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
617 Representing these independently of the database version number will
618 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
619 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
621 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
623 Previously, library users were required to call
624 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
625 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
626 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
627 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
628 too out of date for that API.
630 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
632 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
633 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
634 atomic section will be aborted.
636 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
637 `notmuch_database_destroy`
639 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
641 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
642 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
643 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
644 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
645 messages into the same thread.
650 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
651 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
652 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
653 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
654 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
655 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
660 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
661 from the config file. Use something like:
665 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
666 "footer": "</body></html>",
675 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
680 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
681 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
682 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
684 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
685 ===========================
690 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
692 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
694 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
696 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
697 structure for signatures changed slightly.
699 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
701 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
704 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
705 ===========================
707 This is a bug fix and portability release.
712 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
714 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
716 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
718 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
720 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
726 Use --quick when starting emacs
728 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
730 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
732 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
734 Command-Line Interface
735 ----------------------
737 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
738 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
743 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
745 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
746 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
748 Fix for phrase indexing
750 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
751 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
752 will affect only newly indexed messages.
757 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
759 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
760 unintentionally removed.
762 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
763 =========================
768 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
769 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
770 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
771 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
772 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
773 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
774 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
775 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
776 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
782 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
784 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
785 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
786 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
787 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
788 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
789 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
790 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
791 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
793 There is a new `path:` search prefix
795 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
796 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
797 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
798 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
801 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
803 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
804 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
805 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
806 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
807 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
808 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
809 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
814 Notmuch database upgrade
816 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
817 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
818 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
819 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
820 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
821 released version of Notmuch before now.
823 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
825 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
826 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
827 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
828 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
830 Message header parsing changes
832 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
833 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
834 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
835 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
836 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
837 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
839 Command-Line Interface
840 ----------------------
842 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
844 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
846 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
848 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
850 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
852 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
853 user does not want it.
855 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
857 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
858 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
859 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
860 support formatted output.
862 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
864 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
865 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
866 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
874 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
875 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
876 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
877 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
878 `~/.emacs` with these.
880 Changed format for saved searches
882 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
883 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
884 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
885 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
888 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
889 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
890 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
891 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
893 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
894 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
895 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
897 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
898 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
899 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
900 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
901 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
903 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
905 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
906 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
907 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
909 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
911 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
912 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
913 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
914 message had been unread).
916 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
917 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
918 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
919 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
921 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
922 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
923 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
925 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
926 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
927 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
928 to tags already present.
932 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
933 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
934 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
935 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
936 these differ from each other.
937 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
939 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
941 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
942 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
943 for these Emacs versions.
945 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
947 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
948 newlines before calling notmuch count.
950 Bug fixes for sender identities
952 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
953 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
954 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
956 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
958 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
959 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
960 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
961 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
963 Reply pushes mark before signature
965 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
966 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
967 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
969 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
971 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
972 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
978 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
979 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
981 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
982 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
983 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
984 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
986 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
987 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
988 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
989 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
990 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
992 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
994 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
995 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
997 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
998 =========================
1000 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1001 ---------------------------------------
1003 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1004 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1005 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1006 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1007 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1008 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1009 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1013 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1014 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1016 Command-Line Interface
1017 ----------------------
1019 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1021 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1022 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1023 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1024 print for each message.
1026 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1027 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1028 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1029 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1031 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1033 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1034 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1035 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1037 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1039 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1040 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1041 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1042 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1044 `notmuch compact` command
1046 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1047 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1048 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1049 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1050 move the compacted database into place.
1055 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1057 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1058 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1059 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1060 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1061 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1062 and multiple threads.
1064 Using `notmuch-tree`
1066 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1068 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1069 search, show and tree mode itself)
1071 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1074 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1075 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1077 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1079 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1080 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1081 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1082 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1083 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1084 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1085 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1087 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1089 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1090 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1091 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1092 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1093 thread when the search was performed.
1095 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1097 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1098 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1099 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1101 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1103 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1104 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1107 Built-in help improvements
1109 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1110 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1111 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1113 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1115 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1116 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1117 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1119 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
1121 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
1122 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
1124 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
1126 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
1127 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
1128 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
1129 to move some of them to the common keymap.
1131 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
1133 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
1134 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
1135 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
1136 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
1138 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
1140 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
1141 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
1142 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
1144 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
1146 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
1147 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
1148 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
1150 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
1152 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
1153 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
1154 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
1155 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
1156 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
1158 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
1160 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
1161 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
1162 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
1163 the body part of the message.
1168 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
1169 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
1170 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
1172 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
1173 =========================
1175 Command-Line Interface
1176 ----------------------
1178 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
1180 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
1181 folder and notmuch index.
1183 `notmuch count --batch` option
1185 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
1186 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
1188 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
1190 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
1191 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
1192 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
1195 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
1197 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
1198 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
1199 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
1200 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
1201 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
1204 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
1206 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
1207 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
1209 Top level option to specify configuration file
1211 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
1212 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
1214 Bash command-line completion
1216 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
1217 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
1218 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
1219 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
1220 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
1221 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
1222 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
1223 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
1224 bash-completion package.
1226 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
1231 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
1233 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
1234 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
1235 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
1236 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
1237 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1238 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1239 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1240 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1242 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1244 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1245 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1246 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1248 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1250 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1251 previous thread in the search results.
1253 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1255 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1256 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1258 Faster search and show
1260 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1261 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1262 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1263 threads should show faster.
1267 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1268 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1269 in question was now removed from this release.
1274 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1275 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1280 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1282 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1283 ===========================
1288 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1290 Internal test framework changes
1291 -------------------------------
1293 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1294 being unimplemented.
1296 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1297 ===========================
1299 Internal test framework changes
1300 -------------------------------
1302 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1303 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1305 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1306 =========================
1311 Date range search support
1313 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1314 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1315 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1316 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1317 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1320 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1322 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1323 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1324 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1325 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1326 but may be removed in a future release.
1328 Command-Line Interface
1329 ----------------------
1331 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1333 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1334 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1336 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1338 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1339 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1340 officially deprecated.
1342 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1344 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1345 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1346 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1348 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1350 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1351 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1354 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1355 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1356 dump/restore format.
1358 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1360 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1361 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1362 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1364 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1366 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1367 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1368 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1370 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1372 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1373 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1374 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1375 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1380 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1382 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1383 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1384 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1385 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1387 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1389 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1390 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1391 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1392 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1393 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1394 the behavior of this, see
1395 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1396 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1398 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1399 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1400 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1402 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1404 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1405 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1408 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1410 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1411 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1412 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1413 simply displayed in place of the message.
1415 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1417 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1418 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1420 Improved text/calendar content handling
1422 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1423 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1424 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1425 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1427 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1429 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1430 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1431 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1432 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1434 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1436 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1437 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1438 for HTML email containing images.
1440 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1442 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1444 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1446 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1449 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1451 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1452 the point where it was.
1454 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1456 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1457 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1458 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1459 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1460 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1462 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1464 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1465 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1466 thread instead of the message id.
1468 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1469 -----------------------------
1471 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1472 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1473 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1474 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1475 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1476 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1477 further details and installation.
1482 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1484 Internal test framework changes
1485 -------------------------------
1487 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1489 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1490 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1491 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1492 can result in buggy behavior.
1494 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1495 =========================
1500 Maildir tag synchronization
1502 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1503 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1504 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1505 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1506 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1507 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1510 Command-Line Interface
1511 ----------------------
1513 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1514 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1515 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1516 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1517 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1523 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1525 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1527 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1528 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1529 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1531 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1533 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1534 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1535 span multiple lines.
1537 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1539 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1540 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1541 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1542 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1543 inside the result or message.
1545 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1547 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1548 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1550 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1551 user-specified formatting
1553 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1554 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1555 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1556 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1557 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1559 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1560 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1562 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1563 ===========================
1568 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1569 compilation error for this contrib package.
1571 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1572 ===========================
1577 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1579 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1580 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1581 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1582 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1584 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1585 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1588 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1589 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1590 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1591 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1594 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1596 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1599 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1600 =========================
1602 Command-Line Interface
1603 ----------------------
1607 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1608 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1609 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1610 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1612 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1613 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1614 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1615 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1619 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1620 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1622 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1623 tag in your query, for example:
1625 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1627 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1628 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1630 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1631 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1633 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1635 Raw show format changes
1637 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1638 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1639 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1640 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1641 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1642 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1643 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1644 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1646 Listing configuration items
1648 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1654 Changes to tagging interface
1656 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1657 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1658 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1659 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1660 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1661 for more information.
1663 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1664 may need to update in custom configurations.
1666 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1668 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1669 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1670 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1671 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1674 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1675 -----------------------------
1677 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1678 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1679 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1680 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1681 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1682 contrib/ from now on.
1687 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1688 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1690 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1691 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1693 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1694 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1695 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1697 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1698 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1700 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1701 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1702 returning the new database object or directory object.
1709 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1710 compatible with go 1.
1712 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1713 =========================
1715 Command-Line Interface
1716 ----------------------
1720 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1721 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1722 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1723 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1725 Mail store folder/file ignore
1727 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1728 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1729 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1731 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1732 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1734 Unified help and manual pages
1736 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1737 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1740 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1742 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1743 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1751 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1752 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1753 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1754 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1756 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1758 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1759 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1761 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1764 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1765 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1766 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1768 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1770 should be changed to:
1772 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1774 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1776 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1777 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1779 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1781 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1782 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1783 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1784 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1785 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1786 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1790 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1791 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1792 of Mailing List Archives.
1794 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1796 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1797 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1800 Show view archiving key binding changes
1802 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1803 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1804 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1805 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1806 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1809 Support text/calendar MIME type
1811 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1814 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1816 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1817 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1818 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1819 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1821 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1823 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1824 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1825 messages blue by default in the search view.
1829 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1830 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1837 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1840 Python bindings changes
1841 -----------------------
1843 Python 3.2 compatibility
1845 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1847 Added missing unicode conversions
1849 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1850 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1851 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1856 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1858 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1859 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1860 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1861 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1862 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1864 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1865 ===========================
1870 Fix error handling in python bindings
1872 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1873 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1874 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1875 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1877 Quote MML tags in replies
1879 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1880 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1881 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1882 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1883 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1884 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1885 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1886 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1888 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1889 =========================
1891 Command-Line Interface
1892 ----------------------
1896 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1897 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1898 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1899 importing new messages into the database.
1901 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1903 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1904 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1905 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1910 Automatic tag query optimization
1912 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1913 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1914 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1916 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1918 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1919 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1920 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1925 Reduction of memory leaks
1927 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1928 and fixed in this release.
1935 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1936 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1937 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1940 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1942 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1943 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1944 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1947 Improvements in saved search management
1949 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1950 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1951 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1953 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1955 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1956 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1957 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1959 New face for crypto parts headers
1961 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1962 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1963 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1966 Use space as default thousands separator
1968 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1969 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1970 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1972 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1973 buttonized id: links
1975 New function notmuch-show-advance
1977 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1978 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1979 be bound to SPC with:
1981 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1983 Various performance improvements
1988 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1989 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1992 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1993 ===========================
1998 Fix crash in python bindings
2000 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2001 for some, but not all users.
2003 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2004 ===========================
2009 Fix `--help` argument
2011 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2012 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2013 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2015 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2016 =========================
2018 New build and testing features
2019 ------------------------------
2021 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2022 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2023 prerequisites is improved.
2025 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2027 New command-line features
2028 -------------------------
2030 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2032 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2033 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2036 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2038 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2039 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2040 favour of using stdout.
2042 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2044 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2045 limit the number of results shown.
2047 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2049 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2050 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2053 New emacs UI features
2054 ---------------------
2056 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2058 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2059 starting with "tag:".
2061 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2063 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2064 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2066 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2068 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2070 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2072 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2073 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2078 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2080 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2082 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2083 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2084 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2085 requires a database rebuild:
2087 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2088 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2090 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2092 New collection of add-on tools
2093 ------------------------------
2095 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2096 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2097 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2100 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2102 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2103 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
2104 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2106 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2107 ========================
2109 New, general features
2110 ---------------------
2112 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2114 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2115 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2116 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2117 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2118 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
2125 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
2126 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
2128 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
2132 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
2133 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
2134 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
2137 Python bindings changes
2138 -----------------------
2140 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
2142 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
2143 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
2144 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
2145 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
2146 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
2147 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2149 Ruby bindings changes
2150 ---------------------
2152 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
2153 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
2154 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
2155 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
2160 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
2162 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
2163 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
2165 Reply formatting cleanup
2166 ------------------------
2168 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
2169 MIME parts are being suppressed.
2171 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
2172 ========================
2174 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
2176 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
2177 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
2178 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
2179 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
2182 Improved Build system portability
2184 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
2185 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
2186 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
2188 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
2190 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
2192 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
2194 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
2195 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
2196 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
2198 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
2199 ========================
2201 Vim interface improvements
2202 --------------------------
2204 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
2206 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
2207 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
2208 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
2209 * fix from list reformatting in search view
2210 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
2212 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
2214 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
2215 * fix compose temp file name
2217 Python Bindings changes
2218 -----------------------
2220 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
2222 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
2223 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
2225 Build-System improvements
2226 -------------------------
2228 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
2230 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
2233 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
2234 ==========================
2239 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2241 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2242 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2244 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2245 =======================
2247 New, general features
2248 ---------------------
2250 Folder-based searching
2252 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2253 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2254 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2258 For example, one might use things such as:
2264 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2265 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2267 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2268 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2269 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2270 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2272 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2273 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2274 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2277 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2278 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2280 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2282 Support for PGP/MIME
2284 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2285 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2286 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2288 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2290 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2291 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2293 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2294 notmuch will receive these tags.
2296 New command-line features
2297 -------------------------
2299 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2301 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2302 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2304 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2306 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2307 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2308 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2310 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2312 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2313 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2314 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2315 which parts a signature part applies).
2317 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2319 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2320 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2321 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2322 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2323 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2326 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2328 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2329 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2330 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2331 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2332 by translating it internally to the new call.
2334 Performance improvements
2335 ------------------------
2337 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2339 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2340 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2341 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2343 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2344 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2346 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2348 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2349 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2350 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2352 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2353 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2354 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2355 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2357 Faster initial indexing
2359 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2360 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2361 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2363 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2365 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2366 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2367 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2368 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2370 New emacs-interface features
2371 ----------------------------
2373 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2375 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2376 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2377 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2378 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2379 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2380 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2382 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2384 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2385 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2386 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2387 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2389 User-selectable From address
2391 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2392 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2393 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2394 will prompt for the from address to use.
2396 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2397 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2398 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2400 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2401 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2402 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2405 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2407 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2408 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2410 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2412 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2414 ----- Original Message -----
2416 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2417 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2418 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2419 citations work much like conventional citations.
2421 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2423 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2424 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2425 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2426 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2427 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2429 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2430 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2432 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2434 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2435 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2436 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2438 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2440 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2441 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2442 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2443 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2444 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2446 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2448 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2451 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2453 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2455 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2457 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2460 Vim interface improvements
2461 --------------------------
2463 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2465 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2466 * Implementing archive in show view
2467 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2468 * Add delete commands
2471 Bindings improvements
2472 ---------------------
2474 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2476 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2477 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2479 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2481 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
2485 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2486 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2487 `list(Messages)` works now
2488 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2490 These allow, for example:
2492 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2494 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2496 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2502 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2504 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2507 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2509 New build-system features
2510 -------------------------
2512 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2514 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2515 the configure script from some other directory:
2522 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2524 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2525 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2526 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2527 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2528 manual invocation of configure.
2530 New test-suite feature
2531 ----------------------
2533 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2535 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2536 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2537 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2538 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2539 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2542 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2544 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2545 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2546 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2547 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2548 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2549 are updated to take advantage of this.
2551 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2553 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2554 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2555 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2556 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2562 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2564 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2565 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2566 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2568 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2570 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2572 to:user@elsewhere.com
2574 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2576 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2578 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2580 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2581 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2582 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2585 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2586 from the Received headers in some cases
2588 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2589 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2591 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2593 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2595 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2597 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2598 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2599 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2601 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2602 -------------------------
2604 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2606 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2607 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2608 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2610 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2612 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2613 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2614 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2617 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2619 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2620 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2621 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2622 fixed to avoid this bug.
2624 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2626 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2627 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2629 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2630 ========================
2632 New, general features
2633 ---------------------
2635 Maildir-flag synchronization
2637 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2638 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2647 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2649 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2650 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2651 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2652 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2654 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2655 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2656 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2657 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2660 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2662 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2663 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2664 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2666 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2667 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2669 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2670 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2672 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2673 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2674 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2676 New library features
2677 --------------------
2679 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2681 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2682 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2683 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2684 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2686 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2687 message with the new function:
2689 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2691 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2692 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2693 over all available filenames for a given message.
2695 New command-line features
2696 -------------------------
2698 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2700 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2701 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2702 access to the mail store itself.
2704 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2705 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2706 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2707 name of a script containing:
2709 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2711 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2712 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2718 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2720 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2722 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2724 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2725 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2726 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2727 now produces nothing).
2729 Emacs interface improvements
2730 ----------------------------
2732 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2734 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2736 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2738 Display current thread subject in a header line
2740 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2742 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2744 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2745 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2746 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2747 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2748 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2749 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2750 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2752 Vim interface improvements
2753 --------------------------
2755 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2757 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2758 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2764 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2766 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2767 ========================
2769 New command-line features
2770 -------------------------
2772 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2774 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2775 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2776 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2778 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2779 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2780 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2781 scripts. For example:
2783 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2784 <operations-on> "$file"
2787 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2789 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2790 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2791 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2792 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2793 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2794 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2796 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2798 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2799 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2800 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2801 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2803 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2805 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2806 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2807 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2808 default rather than Bcc.
2810 New library features
2811 --------------------
2813 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2815 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2816 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2821 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2823 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2824 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2825 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2826 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2827 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2828 notmuch customize interface.
2830 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2832 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2833 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2834 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2835 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2837 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2839 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2840 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2841 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2842 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2844 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2846 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2847 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2848 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2849 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2850 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2851 notmuch customize interface.
2853 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2855 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2856 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2857 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2858 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2859 notmuch customize interface.
2861 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2863 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2864 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2865 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2866 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2869 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2871 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2872 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2873 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2876 New build-system features
2877 -------------------------
2879 Various portability fixes have been applied
2881 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2882 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2883 more portable than ever before.
2885 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2887 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2888 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2889 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2891 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2892 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2893 automatically run ldconfig.
2895 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2896 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2897 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2899 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2900 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2901 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2902 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2904 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2906 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2907 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2908 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2909 used in the resulting Makefile.
2911 New test-suite features
2912 -----------------------
2914 New modularization of test suite
2916 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2917 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2918 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2919 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2920 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2921 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2922 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2923 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2925 New testing of emacs interface
2927 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2928 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2929 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2930 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2931 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2932 database via the FCC setting.
2937 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2939 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2940 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2941 persistent error of the form:
2943 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2945 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2946 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2948 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2950 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2951 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2952 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2954 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2956 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2957 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2958 parsing the notmuch results).
2960 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2962 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2965 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2966 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2967 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2972 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2974 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2975 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2976 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2977 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2978 the emacs interface.
2980 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2982 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2983 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2984 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2986 Python-binding fixes
2987 --------------------
2989 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2991 Debian-specific fixes
2992 ---------------------
2994 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2996 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2997 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2998 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3001 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3002 ==========================
3007 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3009 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3010 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3011 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3012 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3014 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3016 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3017 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3018 want notmuch to crash.
3023 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3025 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3026 directory does not exist
3031 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3033 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3034 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3036 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3037 ========================
3039 New command-line features
3040 -------------------------
3042 User-configurable tags for new messages
3044 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3045 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3046 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3047 to specify this value.
3049 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3051 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3052 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3053 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3055 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3057 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3058 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3060 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3062 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3063 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3064 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3065 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3066 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3069 Indication of author names that match a search
3071 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3072 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3073 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3074 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3075 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3076 messages in the thread are listed first.
3078 New: Python bindings
3079 --------------------
3081 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3082 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3083 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3084 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3086 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3087 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3088 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3091 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3092 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3093 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3095 Emacs interface improvements
3096 ----------------------------
3098 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3100 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3101 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3102 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3103 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3104 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3105 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3106 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3107 but without any of the disadvantages).
3109 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3110 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3111 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3114 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3115 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3116 instead running something like:
3118 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
3120 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
3121 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
3122 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
3125 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
3127 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
3128 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
3129 tweaked by the user.
3131 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
3132 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
3133 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
3136 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
3137 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
3138 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
3141 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
3143 This support currently relies on an external program,
3144 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
3145 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
3146 already been written that generate address completions by doing
3147 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
3148 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
3151 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
3152 notmuch) is available via:
3154 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
3156 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
3157 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
3158 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
3160 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
3162 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
3163 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
3164 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
3165 making this automatic in a future release.
3167 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
3169 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
3170 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
3171 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
3172 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
3173 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
3174 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
3177 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
3179 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
3180 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
3181 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
3183 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
3185 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
3186 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
3187 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
3189 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
3190 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
3191 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
3192 other representation.
3194 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
3195 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
3198 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
3200 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
3201 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
3202 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
3204 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
3205 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
3206 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
3208 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
3210 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
3211 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
3212 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
3213 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
3214 to display the search result.
3216 More flexible handling of header visibility
3218 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
3219 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
3220 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
3221 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
3222 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
3223 with the 'h' keybinding.
3225 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
3226 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
3227 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
3229 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
3231 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
3233 Customizable formatting of search results
3235 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
3236 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
3237 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3239 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3241 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3243 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3248 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3250 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3251 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3252 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3253 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3259 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3261 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3262 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3264 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3266 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3267 accept are now all accepted.
3272 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3274 Better display of output from failed tests
3276 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3277 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3279 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3280 ========================
3282 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3283 detailed release notes this time!
3285 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3286 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3288 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3289 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3290 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3291 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3298 Better guessing of From: header
3300 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3301 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3302 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3303 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3304 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3307 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3309 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3310 guaranteed to match all messages.
3312 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3314 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3315 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3316 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3317 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3318 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3321 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3324 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3325 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3326 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3327 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3332 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3334 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3335 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3336 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3337 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3339 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3341 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3343 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3344 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3345 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3347 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3349 Previously, the user might see:
3351 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3355 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3357 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3358 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3359 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3360 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3362 Emacs client features
3363 ---------------------
3365 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3367 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3368 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3369 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3370 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3371 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3373 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3376 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3377 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3378 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3379 search with the '*' binding.
3381 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3383 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3384 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3387 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3389 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3390 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3391 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3393 Build-system features
3394 ---------------------
3396 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3398 Add support to configure for many standard options
3400 We include actual support for:
3402 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3404 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3406 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3407 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3409 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3410 separate "make install-emacs"
3412 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3414 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3415 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3416 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3418 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3421 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3422 ========================
3424 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3426 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3427 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3429 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3430 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3431 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3432 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3433 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3434 tags from messages in a thread.
3441 indent-tabs-mode: nil