1 Notmuch 0.37 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 The function `notmuch-mua-mail` now moves point depending on the
10 Notmuch 0.36 (2022-04-25)
11 =========================
16 Add the `sexp` prefix to the infix (traditional) query parser. This
17 allows specific subqueries to be parsed by the sexp parser (with
18 appropropriate quoting). See `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
20 Add another heuristic to regexp fields to prevent phrase parsing of
21 bracketed sub-expressions.
23 Command Line Interface
24 ----------------------
26 Envelope from ("From ") headers are now escaped as X-Envelope-From: in
27 input to `notmuch-insert`. This prevents creating mbox files when
28 calling `notmuch-insert` from e.g. `postfix`.
30 Python (CFFI) Bindings
31 ----------------------
33 Use the `config_pairs` API in ConfigIterator. This returns all
34 matching key-value pairs, not just those that happen to be stored in
40 Reorganize documention for `notmuch-config`. Add a few links from
46 Bind the usual undo key sequences to new command
47 "notmuch-tag-undo". This allows transparent undo of tagging
53 Fix smime.4 with newer gmime. Unset `XDG_DATA_HOME` and `MAILDIR` for tests.
55 New add-on tool: notmuch-web
56 -----------------------------
58 The new devel/ tool `notmuch-web` is a very thin web client. It
59 supports a full search interface for one user: there is no facility
60 for multiple users provided today. See the notmuch-web README file
63 Be careful about running it on a network-connected system: it will
64 expose a web interface that requires no authentication but exposes
67 Notmuch 0.35 (2022-02-06)
68 =========================
73 Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
75 Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
77 Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
78 `built_with.sexp_queries`.
80 Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
82 Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
87 Improve handling of leading/trailing punctation and space for
90 Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
92 Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
93 `show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
98 Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
100 Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
103 Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
104 third party completion frameworks.
106 Make citation formating more robust against whitespace.
108 Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
110 Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
111 signed and/or encrypted messages.
113 Add notmuch-logo.svg and use it in notmuch-hello view, replacing
116 Make header line in show buffers optional.
118 Add customizable names for search buffers.
123 Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
125 Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
126 installed version of notmuch.
128 Ignore more configure options.
133 Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
136 Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
141 Add `matched` property to message objects.
143 Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
144 deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
150 Use `database.mail_root` for path completion in bash/zsh.
152 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
153 ===========================
158 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
159 xapian/ subdirectory.
161 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
162 --------------------------
164 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
165 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
167 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
168 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
170 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
173 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
174 ===========================
179 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
180 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
181 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
183 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
184 --------------------------
186 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
187 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
189 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
190 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
191 and database location options as the library does.
193 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
195 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
196 ===========================
201 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
202 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
203 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
204 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
205 status returns for the same 3 functions.
207 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
208 =========================
213 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
214 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
215 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
216 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
217 s-expression query support.
222 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
227 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
229 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
231 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
233 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
235 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
236 ===========================
241 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
243 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
244 ===========================
249 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
250 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
253 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
254 =========================
259 Correct documentation about transactions.
261 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
262 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
264 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
269 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
275 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
276 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
277 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
279 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
281 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
283 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
285 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
287 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
289 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
292 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
297 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
298 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
299 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
300 split, following an old library API change.
305 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
310 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
312 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
314 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
315 ===========================
320 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
323 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
326 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
327 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
332 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
334 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
335 ===========================
340 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
346 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
351 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
356 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
361 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
362 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
364 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
365 ===========================
370 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
371 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
372 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
374 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
375 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
376 database in a pre-new hook.
378 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
379 default worked only in "notmuch config".
384 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
385 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
387 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
388 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
389 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
391 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
392 =========================
397 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
398 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
399 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
400 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
401 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
402 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
403 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
404 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
405 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
406 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
407 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
412 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
413 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
415 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
416 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
417 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
418 - `notmuch_config_get`
420 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
421 now exposed (and generalized).
423 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
424 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
425 session has been fixed.
427 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
428 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
433 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
434 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
436 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
437 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
442 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
443 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
444 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
445 when prompting for senders.
447 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
448 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
451 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
453 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
455 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
456 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
457 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
458 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
459 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
460 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
461 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
463 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
464 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
466 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
467 you should change it to:
468 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
470 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
471 ===========================
476 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
481 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
483 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
484 ===========================
489 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
494 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
499 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
501 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
502 ===========================
507 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
508 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
510 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
511 ===========================
516 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
521 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
522 with a C++ header for some compilers.
524 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
526 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
527 =========================
532 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
533 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
534 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
536 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
538 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
540 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
542 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
545 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
547 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
548 search, show and tree mode)
550 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
553 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
556 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
557 always be newest first.
562 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
563 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
564 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
570 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
571 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
572 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
573 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
575 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
576 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
577 non-status providing versions.
579 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
580 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
582 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
583 promised in the documentation.
588 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
589 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
590 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
595 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
596 development version).
601 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
606 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
608 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
609 =========================
614 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
615 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
616 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
619 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
625 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
626 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
627 notmuch-properties(7)).
632 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
633 has protected headers (see
634 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
635 notmuch-properties(7)).
640 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
642 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
643 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
649 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
652 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
653 ===========================
658 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
660 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
665 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
667 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
668 ===========================
673 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
674 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
676 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
677 ===========================
682 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
684 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
685 =========================
690 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
691 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
694 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
695 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
696 the set of headers to be indexed.
698 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
701 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
702 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
703 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
706 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
707 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
708 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
710 Command Line Interface
711 ----------------------
713 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
716 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
718 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
719 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
720 more details about what is included there. This status includes
721 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
726 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
727 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
729 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
731 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
733 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
735 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
737 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
740 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
742 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
743 and may be removed in a future release.
745 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
751 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
753 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
754 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
759 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
760 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
761 cryptography support.
766 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
767 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
768 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
770 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
771 ===========================
773 Command line interface
774 ----------------------
776 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
777 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
779 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
780 ===========================
785 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
786 by message properties.
791 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
793 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
794 ===========================
799 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
804 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
805 now needed to build this documentation.
807 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
808 ===========================
813 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
814 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
816 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
817 =========================
824 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
825 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
826 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
827 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
828 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
831 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
833 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
834 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
835 correct encoding for such messages.
837 Command Line Interface
838 ----------------------
840 Support relative database paths
842 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
843 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
844 to $HOME of the invoking user.
849 Improve stderr handling
851 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
852 needed on e.g. macOS.
854 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
856 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
861 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
862 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
868 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
869 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
875 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
876 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
879 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
880 =========================
885 Add support for thread:{} queries
887 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
888 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
889 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
891 Command Line Interface
892 ----------------------
894 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
896 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
898 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
900 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
901 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
902 does not have to be available during message receipt.
907 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
913 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
914 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
916 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
917 ===========================
922 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
924 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
925 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
926 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
928 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
930 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
931 related abort in `notmuch show`.
933 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
934 ===========================
939 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
940 better late than never.
943 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
944 =========================
946 Command Line Interface
947 ----------------------
949 Support for re-indexing existing messages
951 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
952 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
953 change the way specific messages are indexed.
955 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
956 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
957 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
959 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
961 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
963 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
965 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
966 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
967 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
968 the setting of `new.tags`.
970 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
972 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
974 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
976 This inserts into the top level folder.
978 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
980 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
982 New option --output=address for notmuch address
984 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
986 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
988 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
989 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
990 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
992 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
997 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
999 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
1000 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
1001 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
1002 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
1003 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
1004 config set index.decrypt true".
1006 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
1007 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
1008 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
1009 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
1010 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
1011 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
1012 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
1013 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
1015 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
1016 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
1017 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
1018 this feature without considering the security of your index.
1023 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
1025 Use make-process when available
1027 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
1028 notmuch command without using temporary files.
1033 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
1035 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
1036 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
1037 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
1038 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
1040 New functions to count files
1042 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
1043 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
1045 New function to remove properties
1047 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
1048 drop all properties with a common pattern:
1049 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
1051 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
1053 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
1054 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
1055 possibility of NULL was not documented.
1057 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
1059 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
1060 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
1061 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
1062 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
1063 operator may decide to change from message to message.
1070 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
1071 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
1072 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
1078 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
1080 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
1081 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
1083 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
1085 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
1087 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
1089 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
1094 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
1095 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
1097 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
1098 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
1099 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
1100 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
1101 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
1102 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
1107 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
1109 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
1110 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
1111 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
1112 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
1114 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
1115 ===========================
1120 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
1121 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
1124 Command Line Interface
1125 ----------------------
1127 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
1128 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
1131 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
1132 ===========================
1134 Command Line Interface
1135 ----------------------
1137 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
1138 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
1143 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
1146 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
1147 ===========================
1152 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1155 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1156 =========================
1161 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1163 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1165 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1167 Command Line Interface
1168 ----------------------
1170 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1172 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1177 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1179 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1180 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1183 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1188 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1190 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1191 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1193 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1195 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1196 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1199 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1201 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1203 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1205 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1206 ===========================
1208 Command Line Interface
1209 ----------------------
1211 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1216 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1218 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1219 ===========================
1224 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1226 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1227 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1230 Command Line Interface
1231 ----------------------
1233 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1235 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1237 Fix bug in dump header
1239 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1240 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1241 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1246 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1248 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1249 =========================
1254 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1256 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1259 Command Line Interface
1260 ----------------------
1262 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1264 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1265 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1266 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1268 New default output format to 3
1270 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1271 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1272 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1273 default format changes.
1278 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1280 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1281 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1282 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1283 or tree view to resume.
1285 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1286 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1287 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1290 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1291 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1295 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1296 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1297 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1298 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1299 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1303 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1304 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1305 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1306 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1307 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1308 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1312 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1313 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1315 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1317 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1318 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1319 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1320 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1321 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1322 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1323 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1324 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1327 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1329 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1330 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1331 only tagged the current thread.)
1333 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1335 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1336 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1337 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1339 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1341 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1342 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1343 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1344 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1345 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1346 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1347 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1349 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1351 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1352 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1353 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1358 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1360 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1363 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1365 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1368 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1369 ===========================
1374 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1376 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1377 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1378 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1381 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1382 ===========================
1384 Command Line Interface
1385 ----------------------
1387 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1392 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1394 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1395 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1396 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1398 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1399 ===========================
1404 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1405 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1407 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1408 ===========================
1410 Command Line Interface
1411 ----------------------
1413 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1415 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1416 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1417 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1422 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1424 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1425 ===========================
1427 Command Line Interface
1428 ----------------------
1430 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1435 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1437 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1438 ===========================
1443 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1445 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1446 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1447 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1449 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1451 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1453 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1454 ===========================
1459 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1461 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1466 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1468 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1469 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1470 the original colours.
1472 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1473 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1475 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1477 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1478 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1479 bug, and hence the test.
1481 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1482 =========================
1484 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1485 ---------------------
1487 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1489 Support for single argument date: queries
1491 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1493 Support for blocking opens
1495 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1496 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1498 Support for named queries
1500 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1501 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1502 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1507 Message property API
1509 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1510 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1511 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1512 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1514 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1516 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1521 Support for compile time options
1523 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1524 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1527 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1529 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1530 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1531 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1532 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1533 scripts to ignore it.
1538 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1540 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1541 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1542 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1544 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1545 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1546 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1547 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1548 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1549 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1550 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1552 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1553 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1556 Make internal address completion customizable
1558 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1559 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1560 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1561 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1564 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1566 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1567 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1568 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1569 completion for the current buffer.
1571 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1572 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1573 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1577 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1578 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1579 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1580 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1581 will be added instead.
1583 Face customization is easier
1585 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1586 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1587 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1588 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1590 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1595 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1600 Go bindings moved to contrib
1602 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1604 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1606 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1607 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1609 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1611 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1612 ===========================
1619 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1620 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1622 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1624 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1626 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1627 ===========================
1632 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1634 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1639 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1644 Use `env` to locate perl.
1649 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1651 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1653 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1655 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1657 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1658 =========================
1665 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1666 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1668 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1670 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1671 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1672 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1677 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1678 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1679 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1681 Command Line Interface
1682 ----------------------
1684 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1686 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1691 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1696 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1698 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1699 parts are now included in replies.
1701 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1702 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1703 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1704 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1706 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1708 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1710 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1712 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1713 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1714 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1715 forwards only the current message.
1717 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1719 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1720 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1721 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1722 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1723 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1724 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1725 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1726 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1729 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1730 longer generate empty buffers
1732 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1733 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1734 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1735 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1736 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1738 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1740 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1743 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1745 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1748 Address completion improvements
1750 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1751 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1752 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1753 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1754 interactive address completion.
1756 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1758 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1759 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1760 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1765 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1766 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1767 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1773 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1774 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1775 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1776 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1777 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1778 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1780 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1781 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1782 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1783 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1784 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1785 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1787 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1788 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1790 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1791 =========================
1796 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1799 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1801 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1802 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1803 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1805 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1806 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1808 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1809 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1810 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1812 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1814 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1815 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1816 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1817 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1818 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1819 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1824 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1825 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1828 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1829 option to configure.
1831 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1833 Command Line Interface
1834 ----------------------
1836 Database revision tracking
1838 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1839 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1840 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1841 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1843 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1845 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1846 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1847 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1848 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1849 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1850 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1851 manual page for further information.
1856 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1858 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1859 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1861 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1863 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1864 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1865 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1867 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1869 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1871 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1872 customization as well.
1874 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1876 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1878 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1880 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1882 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1883 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1884 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1885 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1887 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1889 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1890 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1891 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1892 this variable to 10000.
1897 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1898 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1900 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1902 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1903 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1904 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1905 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1906 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1907 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1908 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1909 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1910 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1913 Database revision tracking
1915 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1916 query parser and the new function
1917 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1919 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1921 Deprecated functions
1923 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1924 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1925 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1926 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1931 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1933 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1934 ===========================
1939 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1941 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1942 ===========================
1947 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1949 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1950 =========================
1952 Command-Line Interface
1953 ----------------------
1955 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1957 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1958 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1959 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1961 Path to gpg is now configurable
1963 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1964 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1969 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1971 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1976 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1981 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1986 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1988 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1989 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1991 New error logging facility
1993 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1994 output formerly printed to stderr.
1996 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1998 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
2000 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
2002 Fix for rounding of seconds
2007 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
2009 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
2010 documentation has been removed.
2012 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
2014 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
2015 some material from the relicensed wiki.
2020 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
2021 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
2022 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
2027 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
2028 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
2029 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
2030 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
2031 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
2032 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
2035 git checkout config origin/config
2037 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
2039 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
2040 =========================
2045 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
2046 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
2047 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
2048 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
2049 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
2050 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
2051 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
2053 Command-Line Interface
2054 ----------------------
2056 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
2058 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
2059 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
2060 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
2061 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
2062 script callers should still check the return value.
2064 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
2066 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
2067 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
2068 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
2069 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
2070 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
2071 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
2072 and returning success even if indexing fails).
2074 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
2076 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
2077 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
2078 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
2080 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
2082 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
2083 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
2084 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
2085 currently unmaintained.
2087 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
2089 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
2090 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
2091 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
2092 have at least `N` files associated with them.
2094 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
2096 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
2097 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
2098 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
2099 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
2100 count of duplicate addresses.
2105 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
2107 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
2108 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
2109 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
2112 Improved handling of the unread tag
2114 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
2115 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
2116 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
2117 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
2118 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
2119 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
2120 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
2122 Expanded default saved search settings
2124 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
2125 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
2127 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
2129 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
2130 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
2131 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
2133 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
2135 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
2136 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
2137 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
2138 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
2139 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
2140 the variable for details.
2145 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
2147 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2148 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2149 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2150 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2152 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2154 Previously, library users were required to call
2155 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2156 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2157 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2158 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2159 too out of date for that API.
2161 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2163 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2164 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2165 atomic section will be aborted.
2167 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2168 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2170 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2172 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2173 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2174 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2175 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2176 messages into the same thread.
2181 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2182 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2183 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2184 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2185 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2186 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2191 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2192 from the config file. Use something like:
2196 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2197 "footer": "</body></html>",
2206 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2211 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2212 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2213 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2215 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2216 ===========================
2221 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2223 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2225 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2227 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2228 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2230 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2232 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2235 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2236 ===========================
2238 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2243 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2245 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2247 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2249 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2251 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2257 Use --quick when starting emacs
2259 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2261 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2263 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2265 Command-Line Interface
2266 ----------------------
2268 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2269 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2274 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2276 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2277 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2279 Fix for phrase indexing
2281 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2282 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2283 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2288 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2290 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2291 unintentionally removed.
2293 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2294 =========================
2299 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2300 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2301 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2302 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2303 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2304 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2305 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2306 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2307 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2313 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2315 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2316 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2317 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2318 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2319 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2320 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2321 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2322 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2324 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2326 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2327 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2328 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2329 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2332 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2334 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2335 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2336 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2337 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2338 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2339 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2340 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2345 Notmuch database upgrade
2347 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2348 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2349 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2350 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2351 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2352 released version of Notmuch before now.
2354 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2356 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2357 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2358 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2359 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2361 Message header parsing changes
2363 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2364 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2365 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2366 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2367 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2368 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2370 Command-Line Interface
2371 ----------------------
2373 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2375 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2377 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2379 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2381 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2383 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2384 user does not want it.
2386 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2388 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2389 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2390 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2391 support formatted output.
2393 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2395 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2396 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2397 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2405 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2406 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2407 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2408 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2409 `~/.emacs` with these.
2411 Changed format for saved searches
2413 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2414 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2415 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2416 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2419 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2420 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2421 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2422 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2424 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2425 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2426 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2428 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2429 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2430 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2431 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2432 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2434 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2436 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2437 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2438 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2440 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2442 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2443 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2444 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2445 message had been unread).
2447 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2448 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2449 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2450 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2452 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2453 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2454 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2456 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2457 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2458 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2459 to tags already present.
2463 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2464 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2465 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2466 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2467 these differ from each other.
2468 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2470 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2472 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2473 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2474 for these Emacs versions.
2476 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2478 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2479 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2481 Bug fixes for sender identities
2483 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2484 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2485 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2487 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2489 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2490 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2491 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2492 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2494 Reply pushes mark before signature
2496 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2497 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2498 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2500 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2502 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2503 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2509 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2510 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2512 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2513 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2514 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2515 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2517 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2518 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2519 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2520 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2521 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2523 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2525 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2526 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2528 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2529 =========================
2531 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2532 ---------------------------------------
2534 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2535 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2536 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2537 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2538 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2539 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2540 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2544 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2545 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2547 Command-Line Interface
2548 ----------------------
2550 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2552 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2553 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2554 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2555 print for each message.
2557 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2558 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2559 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2560 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2562 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2564 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2565 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2566 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2568 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2570 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2571 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2572 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2573 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2575 `notmuch compact` command
2577 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2578 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2579 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2580 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2581 move the compacted database into place.
2586 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2588 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2589 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2590 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2591 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2592 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2593 and multiple threads.
2595 Using `notmuch-tree`
2597 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2599 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2600 search, show and tree mode itself)
2602 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2605 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2606 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2608 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2610 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2611 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2612 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2613 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2614 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2615 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2616 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2618 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2620 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2621 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2622 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2623 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2624 thread when the search was performed.
2626 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2628 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2629 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2630 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2632 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2634 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2635 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2638 Built-in help improvements
2640 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2641 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2642 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2644 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2646 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2647 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2648 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2650 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2652 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2653 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2655 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2657 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2658 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2659 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2660 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2662 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2664 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2665 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2666 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2667 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2669 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2671 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2672 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2673 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2675 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2677 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2678 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2679 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2681 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2683 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2684 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2685 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2686 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2687 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2689 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2691 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2692 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2693 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2694 the body part of the message.
2699 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2700 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2701 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2703 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2704 =========================
2706 Command-Line Interface
2707 ----------------------
2709 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2711 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2712 folder and notmuch index.
2714 `notmuch count --batch` option
2716 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2717 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2719 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2721 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2722 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2723 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2726 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2728 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2729 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2730 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2731 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2732 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2735 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2737 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2738 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2740 Top level option to specify configuration file
2742 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2743 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2745 Bash command-line completion
2747 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2748 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2749 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2750 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2751 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2752 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2753 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2754 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2755 bash-completion package.
2757 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2762 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2764 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2765 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2766 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2767 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2768 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2769 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2770 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2771 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2773 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2775 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2776 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2777 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2779 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2781 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2782 previous thread in the search results.
2784 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2786 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2787 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2789 Faster search and show
2791 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2792 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2793 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2794 threads should show faster.
2798 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2799 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2800 in question was now removed from this release.
2805 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2806 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2811 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2813 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2814 ===========================
2819 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2821 Internal test framework changes
2822 -------------------------------
2824 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2825 being unimplemented.
2827 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2828 ===========================
2830 Internal test framework changes
2831 -------------------------------
2833 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2834 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2836 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2837 =========================
2842 Date range search support
2844 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2845 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2846 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2847 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2848 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2851 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2853 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2854 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2855 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2856 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2857 but may be removed in a future release.
2859 Command-Line Interface
2860 ----------------------
2862 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2864 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2865 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2867 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2869 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2870 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2871 officially deprecated.
2873 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2875 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2876 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2877 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2879 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2881 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2882 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2885 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2886 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2887 dump/restore format.
2889 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2891 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2892 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2893 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2895 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2897 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2898 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2899 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2901 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2903 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2904 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2905 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2906 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2911 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2913 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2914 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2915 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2916 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2918 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2920 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2921 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2922 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2923 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2924 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2925 the behavior of this, see
2926 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2927 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2929 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2930 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2931 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2933 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2935 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2936 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2939 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2941 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2942 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2943 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2944 simply displayed in place of the message.
2946 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2948 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2949 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2951 Improved text/calendar content handling
2953 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2954 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2955 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2956 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2958 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2960 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2961 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2962 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2963 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2965 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2967 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2968 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2969 for HTML email containing images.
2971 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2973 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2975 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2977 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2980 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2982 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2983 the point where it was.
2985 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2987 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2988 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2989 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2990 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2991 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2993 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2995 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2996 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2997 thread instead of the message id.
2999 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
3000 -----------------------------
3002 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
3003 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
3004 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
3005 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
3006 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
3007 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
3008 further details and installation.
3013 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
3015 Internal test framework changes
3016 -------------------------------
3018 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
3020 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
3021 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
3022 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
3023 can result in buggy behavior.
3025 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
3026 =========================
3031 Maildir tag synchronization
3033 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
3034 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
3035 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
3036 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
3037 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
3038 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
3041 Command-Line Interface
3042 ----------------------
3044 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
3045 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
3046 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
3047 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
3048 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
3054 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
3056 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
3058 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
3059 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
3060 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
3062 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
3064 It is now possible to embed newlines in
3065 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
3066 span multiple lines.
3068 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
3070 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
3071 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
3072 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
3073 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
3074 inside the result or message.
3076 Search now uses the JSON format internally
3078 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
3079 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
3081 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
3082 user-specified formatting
3084 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
3085 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
3086 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
3087 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
3088 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
3090 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
3091 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
3093 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
3094 ===========================
3099 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
3100 compilation error for this contrib package.
3102 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
3103 ===========================
3108 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
3110 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
3111 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
3112 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
3113 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
3115 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
3116 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
3119 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
3120 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
3121 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
3122 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
3125 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
3127 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
3130 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
3131 =========================
3133 Command-Line Interface
3134 ----------------------
3138 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
3139 for a reply message and full information about the original message
3140 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
3141 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
3143 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
3144 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
3145 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
3146 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3150 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3151 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3153 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3154 tag in your query, for example:
3156 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3158 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3159 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3161 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3162 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3164 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3166 Raw show format changes
3168 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3169 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3170 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3171 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3172 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3173 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3174 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3175 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3177 Listing configuration items
3179 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3185 Changes to tagging interface
3187 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3188 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3189 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3190 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3191 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3192 for more information.
3194 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3195 may need to update in custom configurations.
3197 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3199 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3200 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3201 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3202 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3205 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3206 -----------------------------
3208 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3209 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3210 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3211 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3212 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3213 contrib/ from now on.
3218 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3219 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3221 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3222 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3224 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3225 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3226 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3228 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3229 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3231 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3232 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3233 returning the new database object or directory object.
3240 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3241 compatible with go 1.
3243 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3244 =========================
3246 Command-Line Interface
3247 ----------------------
3251 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3252 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3253 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3254 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3256 Mail store folder/file ignore
3258 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3259 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3260 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3262 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3263 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3265 Unified help and manual pages
3267 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3268 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3271 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3273 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3274 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3282 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3283 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3284 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3285 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3287 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3289 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3290 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3292 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3295 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3296 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3297 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3299 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3301 should be changed to:
3303 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3305 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3307 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3308 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3310 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3312 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3313 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3314 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3315 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3316 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3317 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3321 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3322 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3323 of Mailing List Archives.
3325 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3327 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3328 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3331 Show view archiving key binding changes
3333 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3334 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3335 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3336 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3337 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3340 Support text/calendar MIME type
3342 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3345 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3347 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3348 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3349 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3350 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3352 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3354 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3355 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3356 messages blue by default in the search view.
3360 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3361 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3368 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3371 Python bindings changes
3372 -----------------------
3374 Python 3.2 compatibility
3376 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3378 Added missing unicode conversions
3380 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3381 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3382 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3387 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3389 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3390 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3391 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3392 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3393 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3395 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3396 ===========================
3401 Fix error handling in python bindings
3403 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3404 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3405 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3406 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3408 Quote MML tags in replies
3410 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3411 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3412 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3413 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3414 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3415 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3416 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3417 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3419 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3420 =========================
3422 Command-Line Interface
3423 ----------------------
3427 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3428 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3429 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3430 importing new messages into the database.
3432 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3434 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3435 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3436 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3441 Automatic tag query optimization
3443 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3444 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3445 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3447 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3449 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3450 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3451 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3456 Reduction of memory leaks
3458 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3459 and fixed in this release.
3466 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3467 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3468 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3471 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3473 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3474 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3475 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3478 Improvements in saved search management
3480 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3481 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3482 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3484 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3486 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3487 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3488 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3490 New face for crypto parts headers
3492 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3493 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3494 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3497 Use space as default thousands separator
3499 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3500 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3501 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3503 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3504 buttonized id: links
3506 New function notmuch-show-advance
3508 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3509 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3510 be bound to SPC with:
3512 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3514 Various performance improvements
3519 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3520 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3523 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3524 ===========================
3529 Fix crash in python bindings
3531 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3532 for some, but not all users.
3534 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3535 ===========================
3540 Fix `--help` argument
3542 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3543 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3544 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3546 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3547 =========================
3549 New build and testing features
3550 ------------------------------
3552 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3553 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3554 prerequisites is improved.
3556 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3558 New command-line features
3559 -------------------------
3561 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3563 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3564 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3567 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3569 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3570 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3571 favour of using stdout.
3573 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3575 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3576 limit the number of results shown.
3578 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3580 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3581 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3584 New emacs UI features
3585 ---------------------
3587 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3589 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3590 starting with "tag:".
3592 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3594 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3595 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3597 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3599 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3601 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3603 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3604 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3609 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3611 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3613 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3614 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3615 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3616 requires a database rebuild:
3618 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3619 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3621 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3623 New collection of add-on tools
3624 ------------------------------
3626 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3627 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3628 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3631 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3633 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3634 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3635 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3637 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3638 ========================
3640 New, general features
3641 ---------------------
3643 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3645 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3646 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3647 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3648 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3649 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3656 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3657 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3659 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3663 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3664 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3665 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3668 Python bindings changes
3669 -----------------------
3671 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3673 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3674 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3675 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3676 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3677 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3678 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3680 Ruby bindings changes
3681 ---------------------
3683 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3684 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3685 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3686 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3691 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3693 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3694 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3696 Reply formatting cleanup
3697 ------------------------
3699 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3700 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3702 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3703 ========================
3705 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3707 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3708 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3709 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3710 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3713 Improved Build system portability
3715 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3716 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3717 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3719 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3721 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3723 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3725 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3726 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3727 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3729 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3730 ========================
3732 Vim interface improvements
3733 --------------------------
3735 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3737 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3738 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3739 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3740 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3741 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3743 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3745 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3746 * fix compose temp file name
3748 Python Bindings changes
3749 -----------------------
3751 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3753 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3754 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3756 Build-System improvements
3757 -------------------------
3759 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3761 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3764 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3765 ==========================
3770 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3772 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3773 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3775 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3776 =======================
3778 New, general features
3779 ---------------------
3781 Folder-based searching
3783 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3784 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3785 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3789 For example, one might use things such as:
3795 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3796 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3798 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3799 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3800 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3801 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3803 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3804 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3805 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3808 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3809 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3811 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3813 Support for PGP/MIME
3815 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3816 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3817 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3819 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3821 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3822 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3824 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3825 notmuch will receive these tags.
3827 New command-line features
3828 -------------------------
3830 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3832 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3833 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3835 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3837 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3838 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3839 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3841 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3843 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3844 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3845 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3846 which parts a signature part applies).
3848 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3850 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3851 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3852 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3853 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3854 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3857 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3859 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3860 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3861 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3862 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3863 by translating it internally to the new call.
3865 Performance improvements
3866 ------------------------
3868 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3870 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3871 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3872 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3874 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3875 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3877 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3879 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3880 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3881 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3883 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3884 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3885 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3886 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3888 Faster initial indexing
3890 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3891 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3892 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3894 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3896 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3897 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3898 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3899 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3901 New emacs-interface features
3902 ----------------------------
3904 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3906 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3907 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3908 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3909 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3910 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3911 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3913 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3915 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3916 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3917 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3918 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3920 User-selectable From address
3922 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3923 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3924 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3925 will prompt for the from address to use.
3927 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3928 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3929 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3931 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3932 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3933 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3936 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3938 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3939 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3941 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3943 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3945 ----- Original Message -----
3947 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3948 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3949 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3950 citations work much like conventional citations.
3952 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3954 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3955 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3956 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3957 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3958 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3960 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3961 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3963 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3965 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3966 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3967 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3969 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3971 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3972 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3973 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3974 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3975 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3977 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3979 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3982 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3984 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3986 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3988 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3991 Vim interface improvements
3992 --------------------------
3994 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3996 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3997 * Implementing archive in show view
3998 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3999 * Add delete commands
4002 Bindings improvements
4003 ---------------------
4005 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
4007 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
4008 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
4010 Python bindings have been updated and extended
4012 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
4016 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
4017 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
4018 `list(Messages)` works now
4019 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
4021 These allow, for example:
4023 if msg1 == msg2: ...
4025 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
4027 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
4033 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
4035 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
4038 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
4040 New build-system features
4041 -------------------------
4043 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
4045 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
4046 the configure script from some other directory:
4053 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
4055 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
4056 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
4057 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
4058 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
4059 manual invocation of configure.
4061 New test-suite feature
4062 ----------------------
4064 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
4066 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
4067 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
4068 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
4069 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
4070 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
4073 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
4075 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
4076 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
4077 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
4078 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
4079 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
4080 are updated to take advantage of this.
4082 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
4084 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
4085 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
4086 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
4087 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
4093 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
4095 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
4096 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
4097 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
4099 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
4101 This fixed a bug where a search for:
4103 to:user@elsewhere.com
4105 would incorrectly match a message sent:
4107 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
4109 Fix --output=json when search has no results
4111 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
4112 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
4113 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
4116 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
4117 from the Received headers in some cases
4119 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
4120 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
4122 Cleaned up several memory leaks
4124 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
4126 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
4128 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
4129 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
4130 interface and were never intended to be exported.
4132 Emacs-interface bug fixes
4133 -------------------------
4135 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
4137 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
4138 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
4139 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
4141 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
4143 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
4144 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
4145 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4148 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4150 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4151 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4152 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4153 fixed to avoid this bug.
4155 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4157 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4158 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4160 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4161 ========================
4163 New, general features
4164 ---------------------
4166 Maildir-flag synchronization
4168 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4169 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4178 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4180 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4181 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4182 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4183 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4185 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4186 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4187 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4188 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4191 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4193 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4194 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4195 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4197 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4198 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4200 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4201 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4203 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4204 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4205 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4207 New library features
4208 --------------------
4210 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4212 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4213 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4214 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4215 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4217 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4218 message with the new function:
4220 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4222 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4223 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4224 over all available filenames for a given message.
4226 New command-line features
4227 -------------------------
4229 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4231 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4232 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4233 access to the mail store itself.
4235 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4236 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4237 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4238 name of a script containing:
4240 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4242 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4243 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4249 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4251 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4253 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4255 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4256 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4257 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4258 now produces nothing).
4260 Emacs interface improvements
4261 ----------------------------
4263 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4265 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4267 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4269 Display current thread subject in a header line
4271 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4273 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4275 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4276 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4277 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4278 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4279 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4280 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4281 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4283 Vim interface improvements
4284 --------------------------
4286 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4288 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4289 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4295 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4297 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4298 ========================
4300 New command-line features
4301 -------------------------
4303 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4305 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4306 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4307 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4309 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4310 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4311 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4312 scripts. For example:
4314 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4315 <operations-on> "$file"
4318 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4320 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4321 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4322 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4323 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4324 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4325 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4327 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4329 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4330 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4331 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4332 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4334 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4336 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4337 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4338 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4339 default rather than Bcc.
4341 New library features
4342 --------------------
4344 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4346 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4347 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4352 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4354 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4355 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4356 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4357 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4358 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4359 notmuch customize interface.
4361 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4363 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4364 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4365 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4366 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4368 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4370 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4371 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4372 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4373 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4375 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4377 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4378 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4379 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4380 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4381 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4382 notmuch customize interface.
4384 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4386 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4387 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4388 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4389 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4390 notmuch customize interface.
4392 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4394 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4395 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4396 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4397 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4400 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4402 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4403 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4404 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4407 New build-system features
4408 -------------------------
4410 Various portability fixes have been applied
4412 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4413 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4414 more portable than ever before.
4416 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4418 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4419 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4420 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4422 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4423 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4424 automatically run ldconfig.
4426 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4427 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4428 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4430 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4431 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4432 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4433 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4435 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4437 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4438 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4439 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4440 used in the resulting Makefile.
4442 New test-suite features
4443 -----------------------
4445 New modularization of test suite
4447 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4448 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4449 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4450 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4451 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4452 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4453 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4454 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4456 New testing of emacs interface
4458 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4459 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4460 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4461 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4462 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4463 database via the FCC setting.
4468 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4470 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4471 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4472 persistent error of the form:
4474 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4476 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4477 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4479 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4481 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4482 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4483 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4485 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4487 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4488 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4489 parsing the notmuch results).
4491 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4493 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4496 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4497 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4498 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4503 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4505 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4506 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4507 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4508 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4509 the emacs interface.
4511 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4513 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4514 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4515 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4517 Python-binding fixes
4518 --------------------
4520 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4522 Debian-specific fixes
4523 ---------------------
4525 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4527 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4528 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4529 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4532 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4533 ==========================
4538 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4540 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4541 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4542 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4543 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4545 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4547 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4548 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4549 want notmuch to crash.
4554 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4556 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4557 directory does not exist
4562 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4564 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4565 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4567 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4568 ========================
4570 New command-line features
4571 -------------------------
4573 User-configurable tags for new messages
4575 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4576 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4577 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4578 to specify this value.
4580 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4582 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4583 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4584 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4586 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4588 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4589 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4591 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4593 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4594 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4595 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4596 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4597 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4600 Indication of author names that match a search
4602 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4603 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4604 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4605 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4606 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4607 messages in the thread are listed first.
4609 New: Python bindings
4610 --------------------
4612 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4613 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4614 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4615 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4617 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4618 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4619 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4622 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4623 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4624 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4626 Emacs interface improvements
4627 ----------------------------
4629 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4631 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4632 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4633 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4634 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4635 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4636 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4637 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4638 but without any of the disadvantages).
4640 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4641 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4642 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4645 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4646 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4647 instead running something like:
4649 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4651 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4652 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4653 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4656 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4658 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4659 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4660 tweaked by the user.
4662 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4663 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4664 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4667 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4668 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4669 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4672 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4674 This support currently relies on an external program,
4675 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4676 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4677 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4678 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4679 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4682 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4683 notmuch) is available via:
4685 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4687 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4688 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4689 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4691 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4693 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4694 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4695 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4696 making this automatic in a future release.
4698 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4700 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4701 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4702 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4703 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4704 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4705 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4708 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4710 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4711 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4712 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4714 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4716 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4717 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4718 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4720 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4721 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4722 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4723 other representation.
4725 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4726 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4729 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4731 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4732 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4733 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4735 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4736 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4737 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4739 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4741 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4742 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4743 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4744 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4745 to display the search result.
4747 More flexible handling of header visibility
4749 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4750 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4751 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4752 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4753 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4754 with the 'h' keybinding.
4756 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4757 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4758 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4760 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4762 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4764 Customizable formatting of search results
4766 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4767 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4768 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4770 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4772 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4774 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4779 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4781 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4782 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4783 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4784 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4790 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4792 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4793 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4795 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4797 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4798 accept are now all accepted.
4803 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4805 Better display of output from failed tests
4807 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4808 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4810 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4811 ========================
4813 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4814 detailed release notes this time!
4816 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4817 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4819 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4820 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4821 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4822 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4829 Better guessing of From: header
4831 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4832 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4833 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4834 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4835 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4838 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4840 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4841 guaranteed to match all messages.
4843 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4845 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4846 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4847 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4848 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4849 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4852 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4855 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4856 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4857 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4858 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4863 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4865 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4866 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4867 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4868 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4870 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4872 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4874 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4875 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4876 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4878 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4880 Previously, the user might see:
4882 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4886 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4888 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4889 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4890 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4891 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4893 Emacs client features
4894 ---------------------
4896 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4898 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4899 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4900 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4901 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4902 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4904 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4907 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4908 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4909 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4910 search with the '*' binding.
4912 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4914 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4915 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4918 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4920 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4921 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4922 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4924 Build-system features
4925 ---------------------
4927 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4929 Add support to configure for many standard options
4931 We include actual support for:
4933 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4935 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4937 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4938 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4940 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4941 separate "make install-emacs"
4943 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4945 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4946 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4947 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4949 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4952 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4953 ========================
4955 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4957 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4958 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4960 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4961 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4962 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4963 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4964 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4965 tags from messages in a thread.
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