1 Notmuch 0.33 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
8 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
9 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
11 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
16 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
18 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
19 ===========================
24 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
30 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
35 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
40 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
45 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
46 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
48 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
49 ===========================
54 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
55 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
56 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
58 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
59 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
60 database in a pre-new hook.
62 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
63 default worked only in "notmuch config".
68 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
69 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
71 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
72 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
73 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
75 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
76 =========================
81 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
82 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
83 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
84 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
85 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
86 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
87 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
88 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
89 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
90 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
91 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
96 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
97 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
99 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
100 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
101 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
102 - `notmuch_config_get`
104 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
105 now exposed (and generalized).
107 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
108 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
109 session has been fixed.
111 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
112 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
117 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
118 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
120 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
121 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
126 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
127 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
128 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
129 when prompting for senders.
131 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
132 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
135 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
137 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
139 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
140 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
141 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
142 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
143 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
144 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
145 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
147 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
148 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
150 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
151 you should change it to:
152 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
154 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
155 ===========================
160 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
165 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
167 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
168 ===========================
173 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
178 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
183 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
185 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
186 ===========================
191 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
192 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
194 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
195 ===========================
200 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
205 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
206 with a C++ header for some compilers.
208 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
210 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
211 =========================
216 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
217 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
218 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
220 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
222 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
224 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
226 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
229 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
231 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
232 search, show and tree mode)
234 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
237 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
240 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
241 always be newest first.
246 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
247 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
248 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
254 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
255 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
256 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
257 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
259 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
260 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
261 non-status providing versions.
263 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
264 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
266 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
267 promised in the documentation.
272 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
273 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
274 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
279 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
280 development version).
285 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
290 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
292 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
293 =========================
298 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
299 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
300 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
303 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
309 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
310 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
311 notmuch-properties(7)).
316 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
317 has protected headers (see
318 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
319 notmuch-properties(7)).
324 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
326 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
327 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
333 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
336 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
337 ===========================
342 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
344 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
349 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
351 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
352 ===========================
357 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
358 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
360 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
361 ===========================
366 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
368 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
369 =========================
374 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
375 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
378 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
379 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
380 the set of headers to be indexed.
382 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
385 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
386 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
387 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
390 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
391 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
392 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
394 Command Line Interface
395 ----------------------
397 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
400 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
402 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
403 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
404 more details about what is included there. This status includes
405 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
410 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
411 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
413 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
415 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
417 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
419 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
421 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
424 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
426 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
427 and may be removed in a future release.
429 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
435 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
437 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
438 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
443 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
444 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
445 cryptography support.
450 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
451 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
452 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
454 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
455 ===========================
457 Command line interface
458 ----------------------
460 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
461 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
463 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
464 ===========================
469 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
470 by message properties.
475 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
477 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
478 ===========================
483 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
488 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
489 now needed to build this documentation.
491 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
492 ===========================
497 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
498 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
500 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
501 =========================
508 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
509 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
510 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
511 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
512 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
515 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
517 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
518 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
519 correct encoding for such messages.
521 Command Line Interface
522 ----------------------
524 Support relative database paths
526 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
527 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
528 to $HOME of the invoking user.
533 Improve stderr handling
535 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
536 needed on e.g. macOS.
538 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
540 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
545 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
546 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
552 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
553 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
559 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
560 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
563 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
564 =========================
569 Add support for thread:{} queries
571 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
572 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
573 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
575 Command Line Interface
576 ----------------------
578 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
580 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
582 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
584 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
585 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
586 does not have to be available during message receipt.
591 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
597 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
598 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
600 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
601 ===========================
606 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
608 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
609 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
610 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
612 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
614 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
615 related abort in `notmuch show`.
617 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
618 ===========================
623 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
624 better late than never.
627 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
628 =========================
630 Command Line Interface
631 ----------------------
633 Support for re-indexing existing messages
635 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
636 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
637 change the way specific messages are indexed.
639 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
640 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
641 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
643 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
645 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
647 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
649 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
650 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
651 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
652 the setting of `new.tags`.
654 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
656 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
658 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
660 This inserts into the top level folder.
662 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
664 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
666 New option --output=address for notmuch address
668 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
670 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
672 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
673 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
674 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
676 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
681 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
683 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
684 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
685 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
686 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
687 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
688 config set index.decrypt true".
690 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
691 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
692 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
693 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
694 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
695 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
696 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
697 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
699 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
700 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
701 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
702 this feature without considering the security of your index.
707 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
709 Use make-process when available
711 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
712 notmuch command without using temporary files.
717 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
719 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
720 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
721 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
722 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
724 New functions to count files
726 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
727 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
729 New function to remove properties
731 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
732 drop all properties with a common pattern:
733 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
735 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
737 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
738 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
739 possibility of NULL was not documented.
741 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
743 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
744 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
745 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
746 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
747 operator may decide to change from message to message.
754 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
755 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
756 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
762 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
764 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
765 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
767 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
769 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
771 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
773 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
778 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
779 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
781 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
782 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
783 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
784 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
785 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
786 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
791 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
793 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
794 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
795 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
796 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
798 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
799 ===========================
804 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
805 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
808 Command Line Interface
809 ----------------------
811 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
812 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
815 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
816 ===========================
818 Command Line Interface
819 ----------------------
821 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
822 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
827 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
830 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
831 ===========================
836 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
839 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
840 =========================
845 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
847 Skip HTML tags when indexing
849 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
851 Command Line Interface
852 ----------------------
854 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
856 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
861 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
863 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
864 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
867 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
872 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
874 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
875 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
877 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
879 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
880 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
883 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
885 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
887 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
889 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
890 ===========================
892 Command Line Interface
893 ----------------------
895 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
900 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
902 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
903 ===========================
908 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
910 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
911 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
914 Command Line Interface
915 ----------------------
917 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
919 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
921 Fix bug in dump header
923 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
924 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
925 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
930 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
932 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
933 =========================
938 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
940 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
943 Command Line Interface
944 ----------------------
946 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
948 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
949 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
950 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
952 New default output format to 3
954 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
955 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
956 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
957 default format changes.
962 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
964 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
965 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
966 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
967 or tree view to resume.
969 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
970 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
971 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
974 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
975 they were when you postponed in the final message.
979 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
980 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
981 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
982 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
983 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
987 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
988 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
989 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
990 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
991 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
992 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
996 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
997 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
999 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1001 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1002 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1003 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1004 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1005 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1006 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1007 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1008 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1011 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1013 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1014 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1015 only tagged the current thread.)
1017 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1019 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1020 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1021 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1023 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1025 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1026 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1027 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1028 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1029 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1030 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1031 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1033 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1035 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1036 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1037 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1042 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1044 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1047 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1049 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1052 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1053 ===========================
1058 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1060 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1061 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1062 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1065 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1066 ===========================
1068 Command Line Interface
1069 ----------------------
1071 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1076 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1078 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1079 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1080 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1082 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1083 ===========================
1088 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1089 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1091 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1092 ===========================
1094 Command Line Interface
1095 ----------------------
1097 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1099 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1100 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1101 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1106 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1108 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1109 ===========================
1111 Command Line Interface
1112 ----------------------
1114 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1119 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1121 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1122 ===========================
1127 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1129 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1130 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1131 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1133 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1135 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1137 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1138 ===========================
1143 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1145 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1150 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1152 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1153 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1154 the original colours.
1156 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1157 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1159 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1161 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1162 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1163 bug, and hence the test.
1165 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1166 =========================
1168 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1169 ---------------------
1171 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1173 Support for single argument date: queries
1175 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1177 Support for blocking opens
1179 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1180 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1182 Support for named queries
1184 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1185 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1186 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1191 Message property API
1193 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1194 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1195 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1196 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1198 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1200 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1205 Support for compile time options
1207 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1208 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1211 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1213 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1214 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1215 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1216 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1217 scripts to ignore it.
1222 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1224 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1225 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1226 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1228 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1229 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1230 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1231 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1232 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1233 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1234 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1236 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1237 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1240 Make internal address completion customizable
1242 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1243 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1244 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1245 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1248 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1250 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1251 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1252 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1253 completion for the current buffer.
1255 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1256 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1257 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1261 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1262 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1263 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1264 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1265 will be added instead.
1267 Face customization is easier
1269 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1270 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1271 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1272 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1274 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1279 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1284 Go bindings moved to contrib
1286 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1288 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1290 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1291 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1293 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1295 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1296 ===========================
1303 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1304 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1306 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1308 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1310 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1311 ===========================
1316 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1318 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1323 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1328 Use `env` to locate perl.
1333 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1335 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1337 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1339 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1341 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1342 =========================
1349 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1350 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1352 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1354 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1355 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1356 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1361 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1362 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1363 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1365 Command Line Interface
1366 ----------------------
1368 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1370 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1375 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1380 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1382 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1383 parts are now included in replies.
1385 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1386 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1387 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1388 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1390 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1392 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1394 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1396 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1397 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1398 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1399 forwards only the current message.
1401 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1403 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1404 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1405 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1406 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1407 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1408 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1409 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1410 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1413 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1414 longer generate empty buffers
1416 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1417 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1418 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1419 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1420 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1422 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1424 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1427 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1429 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1432 Address completion improvements
1434 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1435 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1436 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1437 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1438 interactive address completion.
1440 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1442 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1443 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1444 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1449 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1450 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1451 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1457 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1458 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1459 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1460 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1461 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1462 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1464 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1465 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1466 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1467 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1468 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1469 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1471 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1472 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1474 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1475 =========================
1480 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1483 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1485 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1486 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1487 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1489 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1490 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1492 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1493 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1494 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1496 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1498 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1499 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1500 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1501 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1502 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1503 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1508 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1509 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1512 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1513 option to configure.
1515 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1517 Command Line Interface
1518 ----------------------
1520 Database revision tracking
1522 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1523 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1524 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1525 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1527 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1529 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1530 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1531 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1532 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1533 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1534 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1535 manual page for further information.
1540 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1542 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1543 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1545 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1547 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1548 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1549 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1551 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1553 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1555 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1556 customization as well.
1558 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1560 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1562 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1564 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1566 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1567 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1568 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1569 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1571 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1573 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1574 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1575 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1576 this variable to 10000.
1581 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1582 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1584 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1586 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1587 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1588 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1589 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1590 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1591 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1592 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1593 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1594 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1597 Database revision tracking
1599 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1600 query parser and the new function
1601 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1603 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1605 Deprecated functions
1607 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1608 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1609 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1610 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1615 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1617 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1618 ===========================
1623 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1625 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1626 ===========================
1631 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1633 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1634 =========================
1636 Command-Line Interface
1637 ----------------------
1639 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1641 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1642 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1643 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1645 Path to gpg is now configurable
1647 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1648 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1653 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1655 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1660 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1665 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1670 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1672 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1673 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1675 New error logging facility
1677 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1678 output formerly printed to stderr.
1680 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1682 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1684 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1686 Fix for rounding of seconds
1691 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1693 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1694 documentation has been removed.
1696 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1698 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1699 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1704 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1705 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1706 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1711 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1712 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1713 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1714 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1715 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1716 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1719 git checkout config origin/config
1721 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1723 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1724 =========================
1729 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1730 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1731 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1732 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1733 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1734 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1735 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1737 Command-Line Interface
1738 ----------------------
1740 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1742 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1743 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1744 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1745 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1746 script callers should still check the return value.
1748 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1750 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1751 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1752 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1753 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1754 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1755 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1756 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1758 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1760 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1761 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1762 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1764 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1766 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1767 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1768 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1769 currently unmaintained.
1771 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1773 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1774 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1775 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1776 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1778 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1780 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1781 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1782 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1783 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1784 count of duplicate addresses.
1789 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1791 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1792 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1793 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1796 Improved handling of the unread tag
1798 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1799 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1800 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1801 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1802 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1803 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1804 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1806 Expanded default saved search settings
1808 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1809 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1811 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1813 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1814 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1815 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1817 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1819 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1820 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1821 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1822 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1823 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1824 the variable for details.
1829 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1831 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1832 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1833 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1834 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1836 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1838 Previously, library users were required to call
1839 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1840 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1841 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1842 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1843 too out of date for that API.
1845 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1847 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1848 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1849 atomic section will be aborted.
1851 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1852 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1854 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1856 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1857 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1858 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1859 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1860 messages into the same thread.
1865 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1866 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1867 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1868 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1869 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1870 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1875 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1876 from the config file. Use something like:
1880 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1881 "footer": "</body></html>",
1890 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1895 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1896 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1897 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1899 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1900 ===========================
1905 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1907 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1909 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1911 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1912 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1914 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1916 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1919 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1920 ===========================
1922 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1927 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1929 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1931 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1933 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1935 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1941 Use --quick when starting emacs
1943 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1945 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1947 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1949 Command-Line Interface
1950 ----------------------
1952 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1953 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1958 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1960 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1961 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1963 Fix for phrase indexing
1965 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1966 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1967 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1972 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1974 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1975 unintentionally removed.
1977 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1978 =========================
1983 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1984 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1985 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1986 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1987 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1988 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1989 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1990 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1991 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1997 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1999 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2000 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2001 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2002 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2003 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2004 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2005 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2006 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2008 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2010 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2011 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2012 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2013 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2016 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2018 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2019 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2020 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2021 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2022 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2023 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2024 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2029 Notmuch database upgrade
2031 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2032 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2033 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2034 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2035 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2036 released version of Notmuch before now.
2038 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2040 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2041 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2042 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2043 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2045 Message header parsing changes
2047 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2048 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2049 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2050 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2051 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2052 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2054 Command-Line Interface
2055 ----------------------
2057 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2059 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2061 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2063 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2065 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2067 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2068 user does not want it.
2070 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2072 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2073 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2074 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2075 support formatted output.
2077 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2079 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2080 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2081 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2089 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2090 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2091 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2092 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2093 `~/.emacs` with these.
2095 Changed format for saved searches
2097 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2098 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2099 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2100 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2103 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2104 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2105 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2106 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2108 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2109 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2110 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2112 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2113 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2114 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2115 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2116 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2118 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2120 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2121 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2122 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2124 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2126 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2127 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2128 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2129 message had been unread).
2131 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2132 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2133 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2134 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2136 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2137 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2138 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2140 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2141 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2142 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2143 to tags already present.
2147 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2148 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2149 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2150 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2151 these differ from each other.
2152 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2154 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2156 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2157 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2158 for these Emacs versions.
2160 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2162 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2163 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2165 Bug fixes for sender identities
2167 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2168 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2169 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2171 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2173 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2174 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2175 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2176 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2178 Reply pushes mark before signature
2180 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2181 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2182 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2184 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2186 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2187 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2193 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2194 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2196 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2197 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2198 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2199 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2201 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2202 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2203 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2204 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2205 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2207 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2209 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2210 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2212 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2213 =========================
2215 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2216 ---------------------------------------
2218 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2219 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2220 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2221 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2222 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2223 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2224 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2228 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2229 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2231 Command-Line Interface
2232 ----------------------
2234 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2236 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2237 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2238 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2239 print for each message.
2241 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2242 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2243 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2244 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2246 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2248 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2249 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2250 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2252 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2254 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2255 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2256 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2257 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2259 `notmuch compact` command
2261 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2262 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2263 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2264 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2265 move the compacted database into place.
2270 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2272 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2273 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2274 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2275 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2276 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2277 and multiple threads.
2279 Using `notmuch-tree`
2281 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2283 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2284 search, show and tree mode itself)
2286 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2289 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2290 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2292 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2294 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2295 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2296 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2297 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2298 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2299 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2300 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2302 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2304 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2305 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2306 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2307 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2308 thread when the search was performed.
2310 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2312 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2313 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2314 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2316 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2318 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2319 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2322 Built-in help improvements
2324 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2325 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2326 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2328 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2330 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2331 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2332 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2334 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2336 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2337 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2339 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2341 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2342 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2343 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2344 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2346 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2348 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2349 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2350 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2351 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2353 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2355 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2356 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2357 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2359 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2361 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2362 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2363 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2365 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2367 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2368 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2369 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2370 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2371 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2373 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2375 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2376 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2377 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2378 the body part of the message.
2383 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2384 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2385 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2387 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2388 =========================
2390 Command-Line Interface
2391 ----------------------
2393 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2395 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2396 folder and notmuch index.
2398 `notmuch count --batch` option
2400 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2401 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2403 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2405 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2406 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2407 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2410 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2412 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2413 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2414 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2415 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2416 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2419 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2421 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2422 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2424 Top level option to specify configuration file
2426 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2427 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2429 Bash command-line completion
2431 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2432 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2433 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2434 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2435 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2436 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2437 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2438 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2439 bash-completion package.
2441 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2446 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2448 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2449 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2450 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2451 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2452 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2453 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2454 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2455 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2457 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2459 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2460 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2461 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2463 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2465 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2466 previous thread in the search results.
2468 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2470 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2471 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2473 Faster search and show
2475 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2476 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2477 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2478 threads should show faster.
2482 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2483 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2484 in question was now removed from this release.
2489 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2490 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2495 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2497 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2498 ===========================
2503 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2505 Internal test framework changes
2506 -------------------------------
2508 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2509 being unimplemented.
2511 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2512 ===========================
2514 Internal test framework changes
2515 -------------------------------
2517 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2518 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2520 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2521 =========================
2526 Date range search support
2528 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2529 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2530 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2531 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2532 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2535 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2537 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2538 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2539 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2540 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2541 but may be removed in a future release.
2543 Command-Line Interface
2544 ----------------------
2546 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2548 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2549 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2551 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2553 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2554 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2555 officially deprecated.
2557 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2559 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2560 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2561 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2563 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2565 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2566 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2569 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2570 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2571 dump/restore format.
2573 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2575 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2576 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2577 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2579 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2581 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2582 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2583 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2585 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2587 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2588 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2589 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2590 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2595 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2597 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2598 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2599 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2600 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2602 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2604 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2605 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2606 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2607 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2608 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2609 the behavior of this, see
2610 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2611 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2613 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2614 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2615 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2617 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2619 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2620 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2623 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2625 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2626 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2627 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2628 simply displayed in place of the message.
2630 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2632 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2633 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2635 Improved text/calendar content handling
2637 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2638 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2639 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2640 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2642 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2644 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2645 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2646 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2647 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2649 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2651 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2652 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2653 for HTML email containing images.
2655 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2657 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2659 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2661 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2664 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2666 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2667 the point where it was.
2669 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2671 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2672 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2673 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2674 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2675 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2677 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2679 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2680 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2681 thread instead of the message id.
2683 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2684 -----------------------------
2686 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2687 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2688 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2689 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2690 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2691 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2692 further details and installation.
2697 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2699 Internal test framework changes
2700 -------------------------------
2702 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2704 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2705 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2706 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2707 can result in buggy behavior.
2709 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2710 =========================
2715 Maildir tag synchronization
2717 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2718 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2719 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2720 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2721 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2722 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2725 Command-Line Interface
2726 ----------------------
2728 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2729 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2730 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2731 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2732 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2738 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2740 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2742 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2743 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2744 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2746 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2748 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2749 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2750 span multiple lines.
2752 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2754 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2755 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2756 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2757 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2758 inside the result or message.
2760 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2762 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2763 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2765 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2766 user-specified formatting
2768 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2769 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2770 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2771 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2772 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2774 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2775 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2777 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2778 ===========================
2783 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2784 compilation error for this contrib package.
2786 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2787 ===========================
2792 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2794 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2795 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2796 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2797 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2799 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2800 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2803 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2804 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2805 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2806 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2809 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2811 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2814 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2815 =========================
2817 Command-Line Interface
2818 ----------------------
2822 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2823 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2824 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2825 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2827 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2828 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2829 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2830 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2834 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2835 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2837 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2838 tag in your query, for example:
2840 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2842 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2843 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2845 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2846 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2848 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2850 Raw show format changes
2852 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2853 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2854 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2855 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2856 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2857 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2858 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2859 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2861 Listing configuration items
2863 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2869 Changes to tagging interface
2871 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2872 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2873 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2874 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2875 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2876 for more information.
2878 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2879 may need to update in custom configurations.
2881 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2883 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2884 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2885 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2886 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2889 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2890 -----------------------------
2892 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2893 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2894 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2895 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2896 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2897 contrib/ from now on.
2902 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2903 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2905 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2906 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2908 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2909 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2910 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2912 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2913 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2915 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2916 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2917 returning the new database object or directory object.
2924 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2925 compatible with go 1.
2927 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2928 =========================
2930 Command-Line Interface
2931 ----------------------
2935 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2936 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2937 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2938 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2940 Mail store folder/file ignore
2942 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2943 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2944 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2946 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2947 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2949 Unified help and manual pages
2951 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2952 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2955 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2957 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2958 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2966 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2967 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2968 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2969 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2971 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2973 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2974 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2976 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2979 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2980 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2981 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2983 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2985 should be changed to:
2987 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2989 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2991 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2992 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2994 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2996 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2997 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2998 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2999 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3000 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3001 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3005 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3006 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3007 of Mailing List Archives.
3009 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3011 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3012 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3015 Show view archiving key binding changes
3017 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3018 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3019 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3020 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3021 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3024 Support text/calendar MIME type
3026 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3029 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3031 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3032 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3033 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3034 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3036 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3038 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3039 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3040 messages blue by default in the search view.
3044 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3045 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3052 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3055 Python bindings changes
3056 -----------------------
3058 Python 3.2 compatibility
3060 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3062 Added missing unicode conversions
3064 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3065 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3066 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3071 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3073 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3074 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3075 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3076 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3077 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3079 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3080 ===========================
3085 Fix error handling in python bindings
3087 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3088 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3089 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3090 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3092 Quote MML tags in replies
3094 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3095 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3096 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3097 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3098 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3099 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3100 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3101 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3103 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3104 =========================
3106 Command-Line Interface
3107 ----------------------
3111 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3112 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3113 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3114 importing new messages into the database.
3116 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3118 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3119 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3120 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3125 Automatic tag query optimization
3127 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3128 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3129 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3131 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3133 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3134 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3135 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3140 Reduction of memory leaks
3142 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3143 and fixed in this release.
3150 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3151 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3152 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3155 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3157 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3158 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3159 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3162 Improvements in saved search management
3164 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3165 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3166 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3168 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3170 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3171 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3172 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3174 New face for crypto parts headers
3176 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3177 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3178 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3181 Use space as default thousands separator
3183 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3184 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3185 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3187 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3188 buttonized id: links
3190 New function notmuch-show-advance
3192 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3193 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3194 be bound to SPC with:
3196 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3198 Various performance improvements
3203 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3204 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3207 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3208 ===========================
3213 Fix crash in python bindings
3215 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3216 for some, but not all users.
3218 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3219 ===========================
3224 Fix `--help` argument
3226 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3227 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3228 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3230 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3231 =========================
3233 New build and testing features
3234 ------------------------------
3236 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3237 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3238 prerequisites is improved.
3240 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3242 New command-line features
3243 -------------------------
3245 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3247 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3248 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3251 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3253 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3254 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3255 favour of using stdout.
3257 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3259 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3260 limit the number of results shown.
3262 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3264 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3265 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3268 New emacs UI features
3269 ---------------------
3271 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3273 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3274 starting with "tag:".
3276 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3278 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3279 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3281 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3283 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3285 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3287 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3288 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3293 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3295 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3297 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3298 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3299 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3300 requires a database rebuild:
3302 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3303 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3305 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3307 New collection of add-on tools
3308 ------------------------------
3310 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3311 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3312 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3315 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3317 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3318 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3319 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3321 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3322 ========================
3324 New, general features
3325 ---------------------
3327 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3329 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3330 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3331 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3332 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3333 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3340 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3341 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3343 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3347 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3348 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3349 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3352 Python bindings changes
3353 -----------------------
3355 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3357 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3358 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3359 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3360 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3361 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3362 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3364 Ruby bindings changes
3365 ---------------------
3367 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3368 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3369 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3370 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3375 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3377 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3378 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3380 Reply formatting cleanup
3381 ------------------------
3383 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3384 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3386 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3387 ========================
3389 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3391 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3392 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3393 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3394 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3397 Improved Build system portability
3399 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3400 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3401 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3403 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3405 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3407 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3409 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3410 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3411 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3413 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3414 ========================
3416 Vim interface improvements
3417 --------------------------
3419 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3421 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3422 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3423 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3424 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3425 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3427 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3429 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3430 * fix compose temp file name
3432 Python Bindings changes
3433 -----------------------
3435 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3437 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3438 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3440 Build-System improvements
3441 -------------------------
3443 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3445 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3448 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3449 ==========================
3454 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3456 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3457 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3459 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3460 =======================
3462 New, general features
3463 ---------------------
3465 Folder-based searching
3467 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3468 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3469 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3473 For example, one might use things such as:
3479 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3480 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3482 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3483 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3484 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3485 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3487 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3488 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3489 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3492 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3493 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3495 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3497 Support for PGP/MIME
3499 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3500 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3501 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3503 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3505 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3506 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3508 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3509 notmuch will receive these tags.
3511 New command-line features
3512 -------------------------
3514 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3516 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3517 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3519 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3521 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3522 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3523 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3525 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3527 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3528 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3529 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3530 which parts a signature part applies).
3532 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3534 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3535 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3536 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3537 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3538 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3541 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3543 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3544 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3545 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3546 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3547 by translating it internally to the new call.
3549 Performance improvements
3550 ------------------------
3552 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3554 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3555 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3556 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3558 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3559 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3561 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3563 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3564 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3565 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3567 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3568 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3569 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3570 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3572 Faster initial indexing
3574 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3575 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3576 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3578 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3580 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3581 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3582 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3583 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3585 New emacs-interface features
3586 ----------------------------
3588 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3590 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3591 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3592 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3593 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3594 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3595 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3597 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3599 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3600 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3601 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3602 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3604 User-selectable From address
3606 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3607 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3608 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3609 will prompt for the from address to use.
3611 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3612 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3613 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3615 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3616 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3617 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3620 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3622 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3623 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3625 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3627 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3629 ----- Original Message -----
3631 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3632 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3633 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3634 citations work much like conventional citations.
3636 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3638 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3639 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3640 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3641 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3642 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3644 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3645 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3647 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3649 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3650 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3651 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3653 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3655 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3656 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3657 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3658 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3659 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3661 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3663 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3666 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3668 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3670 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3672 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3675 Vim interface improvements
3676 --------------------------
3678 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3680 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3681 * Implementing archive in show view
3682 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3683 * Add delete commands
3686 Bindings improvements
3687 ---------------------
3689 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3691 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3692 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3694 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3696 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3700 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3701 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3702 `list(Messages)` works now
3703 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3705 These allow, for example:
3707 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3709 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3711 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3717 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3719 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3722 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3724 New build-system features
3725 -------------------------
3727 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3729 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3730 the configure script from some other directory:
3737 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3739 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3740 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3741 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3742 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3743 manual invocation of configure.
3745 New test-suite feature
3746 ----------------------
3748 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3750 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3751 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3752 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3753 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3754 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3757 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3759 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3760 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3761 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3762 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3763 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3764 are updated to take advantage of this.
3766 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3768 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3769 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3770 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3771 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3777 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3779 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3780 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3781 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3783 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3785 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3787 to:user@elsewhere.com
3789 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3791 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3793 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3795 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3796 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3797 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3800 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3801 from the Received headers in some cases
3803 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3804 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3806 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3808 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3810 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3812 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3813 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3814 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3816 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3817 -------------------------
3819 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3821 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3822 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3823 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3825 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3827 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3828 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3829 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3832 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3834 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3835 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3836 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3837 fixed to avoid this bug.
3839 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3841 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3842 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3844 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3845 ========================
3847 New, general features
3848 ---------------------
3850 Maildir-flag synchronization
3852 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3853 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3862 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3864 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3865 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3866 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3867 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3869 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3870 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3871 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3872 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3875 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3877 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3878 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3879 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3881 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3882 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3884 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3885 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3887 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3888 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3889 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3891 New library features
3892 --------------------
3894 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3896 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3897 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3898 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3899 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3901 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3902 message with the new function:
3904 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3906 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3907 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3908 over all available filenames for a given message.
3910 New command-line features
3911 -------------------------
3913 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3915 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3916 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3917 access to the mail store itself.
3919 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3920 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3921 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3922 name of a script containing:
3924 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3926 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3927 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3933 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3935 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3937 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3939 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3940 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3941 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3942 now produces nothing).
3944 Emacs interface improvements
3945 ----------------------------
3947 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3949 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3951 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3953 Display current thread subject in a header line
3955 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3957 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3959 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3960 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3961 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3962 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3963 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3964 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3965 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3967 Vim interface improvements
3968 --------------------------
3970 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3972 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3973 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3979 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3981 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3982 ========================
3984 New command-line features
3985 -------------------------
3987 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3989 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3990 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3991 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3993 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3994 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3995 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3996 scripts. For example:
3998 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3999 <operations-on> "$file"
4002 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4004 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4005 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4006 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4007 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4008 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4009 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4011 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4013 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4014 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4015 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4016 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4018 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4020 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4021 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4022 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4023 default rather than Bcc.
4025 New library features
4026 --------------------
4028 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4030 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4031 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4036 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4038 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4039 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4040 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4041 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4042 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4043 notmuch customize interface.
4045 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4047 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4048 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4049 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4050 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4052 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4054 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4055 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4056 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4057 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4059 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4061 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4062 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4063 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4064 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4065 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4066 notmuch customize interface.
4068 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4070 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4071 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4072 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4073 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4074 notmuch customize interface.
4076 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4078 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4079 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4080 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4081 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4084 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4086 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4087 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4088 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4091 New build-system features
4092 -------------------------
4094 Various portability fixes have been applied
4096 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4097 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4098 more portable than ever before.
4100 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4102 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4103 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4104 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4106 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4107 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4108 automatically run ldconfig.
4110 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4111 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4112 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4114 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4115 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4116 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4117 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4119 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4121 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4122 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4123 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4124 used in the resulting Makefile.
4126 New test-suite features
4127 -----------------------
4129 New modularization of test suite
4131 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4132 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4133 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4134 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4135 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4136 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4137 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4138 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4140 New testing of emacs interface
4142 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4143 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4144 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4145 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4146 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4147 database via the FCC setting.
4152 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4154 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4155 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4156 persistent error of the form:
4158 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4160 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4161 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4163 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4165 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4166 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4167 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4169 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4171 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4172 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4173 parsing the notmuch results).
4175 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4177 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4180 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4181 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4182 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4187 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4189 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4190 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4191 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4192 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4193 the emacs interface.
4195 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4197 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4198 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4199 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4201 Python-binding fixes
4202 --------------------
4204 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4206 Debian-specific fixes
4207 ---------------------
4209 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4211 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4212 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4213 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4216 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4217 ==========================
4222 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4224 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4225 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4226 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4227 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4229 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4231 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4232 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4233 want notmuch to crash.
4238 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4240 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4241 directory does not exist
4246 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4248 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4249 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4251 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4252 ========================
4254 New command-line features
4255 -------------------------
4257 User-configurable tags for new messages
4259 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4260 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4261 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4262 to specify this value.
4264 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4266 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4267 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4268 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4270 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4272 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4273 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4275 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4277 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4278 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4279 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4280 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4281 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4284 Indication of author names that match a search
4286 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4287 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4288 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4289 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4290 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4291 messages in the thread are listed first.
4293 New: Python bindings
4294 --------------------
4296 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4297 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4298 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4299 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4301 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4302 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4303 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4306 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4307 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4308 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4310 Emacs interface improvements
4311 ----------------------------
4313 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4315 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4316 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4317 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4318 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4319 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4320 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4321 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4322 but without any of the disadvantages).
4324 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4325 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4326 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4329 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4330 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4331 instead running something like:
4333 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4335 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4336 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4337 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4340 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4342 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4343 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4344 tweaked by the user.
4346 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4347 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4348 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4351 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4352 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4353 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4356 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4358 This support currently relies on an external program,
4359 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4360 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4361 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4362 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4363 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4366 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4367 notmuch) is available via:
4369 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4371 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4372 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4373 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4375 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4377 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4378 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4379 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4380 making this automatic in a future release.
4382 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4384 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4385 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4386 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4387 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4388 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4389 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4392 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4394 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4395 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4396 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4398 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4400 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4401 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4402 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4404 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4405 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4406 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4407 other representation.
4409 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4410 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4413 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4415 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4416 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4417 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4419 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4420 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4421 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4423 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4425 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4426 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4427 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4428 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4429 to display the search result.
4431 More flexible handling of header visibility
4433 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4434 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4435 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4436 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4437 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4438 with the 'h' keybinding.
4440 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4441 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4442 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4444 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4446 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4448 Customizable formatting of search results
4450 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4451 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4452 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4454 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4456 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4458 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4463 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4465 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4466 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4467 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4468 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4474 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4476 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4477 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4479 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4481 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4482 accept are now all accepted.
4487 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4489 Better display of output from failed tests
4491 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4492 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4494 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4495 ========================
4497 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4498 detailed release notes this time!
4500 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4501 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4503 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4504 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4505 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4506 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4513 Better guessing of From: header
4515 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4516 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4517 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4518 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4519 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4522 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4524 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4525 guaranteed to match all messages.
4527 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4529 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4530 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4531 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4532 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4533 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4536 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4539 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4540 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4541 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4542 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4547 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4549 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4550 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4551 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4552 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4554 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4556 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4558 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4559 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4560 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4562 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4564 Previously, the user might see:
4566 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4570 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4572 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4573 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4574 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4575 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4577 Emacs client features
4578 ---------------------
4580 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4582 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4583 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4584 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4585 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4586 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4588 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4591 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4592 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4593 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4594 search with the '*' binding.
4596 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4598 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4599 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4602 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4604 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4605 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4606 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4608 Build-system features
4609 ---------------------
4611 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4613 Add support to configure for many standard options
4615 We include actual support for:
4617 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4619 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4621 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4622 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4624 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4625 separate "make install-emacs"
4627 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4629 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4630 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4631 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4633 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4636 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4637 ========================
4639 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4641 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4642 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4644 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4645 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4646 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4647 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4648 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4649 tags from messages in a thread.
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