1 Notmuch 0.32.1 (UNRELEASED)
2 ===========================
4 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
5 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
6 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
8 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
9 =========================
14 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
15 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
16 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
17 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
18 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
19 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
20 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
21 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
22 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
23 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
24 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
29 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
30 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
32 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
33 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
34 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
35 - `notmuch_config_get`
37 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
38 now exposed (and generalized).
40 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
41 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
42 session has been fixed.
44 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
45 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`
50 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
51 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
53 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
54 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
59 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
60 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
61 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
62 when prompting for senders.
64 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
65 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
68 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
70 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
72 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
73 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
74 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
75 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
76 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
77 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
78 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
80 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
81 ===========================
86 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
91 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
93 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
94 ===========================
99 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
104 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
109 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
111 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
112 ===========================
117 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
118 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
120 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
121 ===========================
126 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
131 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
132 with a C++ header for some compilers.
134 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
136 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
137 =========================
142 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
143 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
144 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
146 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
148 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
150 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
152 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
155 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
157 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
158 search, show and tree mode)
160 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
163 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
166 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
167 always be newest first.
172 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
173 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
174 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
180 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
181 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
182 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
183 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
185 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
186 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
187 non-status providing versions.
189 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
190 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
192 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
193 promised in the documentation.
198 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
199 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
200 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
205 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
206 development version).
211 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
216 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
218 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
219 =========================
224 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
225 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
226 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
229 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
235 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
236 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
237 notmuch-properties(7)).
242 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
243 has protected headers (see
244 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
245 notmuch-properties(7)).
250 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
252 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
253 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
259 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
262 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
263 ===========================
268 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
270 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
275 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
277 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
278 ===========================
283 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
284 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
286 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
287 ===========================
292 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
294 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
295 =========================
300 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
301 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
304 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
305 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
306 the set of headers to be indexed.
308 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
311 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
312 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
313 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
316 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
317 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
318 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
320 Command Line Interface
321 ----------------------
323 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
326 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
328 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
329 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
330 more details about what is included there. This status includes
331 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
336 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
337 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
339 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
341 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
343 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
345 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
347 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
350 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
352 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
353 and may be removed in a future release.
355 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
361 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
363 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
364 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
369 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
370 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
371 cryptography support.
376 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
377 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
378 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
380 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
381 ===========================
383 Command line interface
384 ----------------------
386 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
387 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
389 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
390 ===========================
395 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
396 by message properties.
401 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
403 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
404 ===========================
409 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
414 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
415 now needed to build this documentation.
417 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
418 ===========================
423 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
424 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
426 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
427 =========================
434 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
435 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
436 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
437 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
438 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
441 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
443 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
444 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
445 correct encoding for such messages.
447 Command Line Interface
448 ----------------------
450 Support relative database paths
452 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
453 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
454 to $HOME of the invoking user.
459 Improve stderr handling
461 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
462 needed on e.g. macOS.
464 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
466 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
471 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
472 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
478 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
479 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
485 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
486 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
489 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
490 =========================
495 Add support for thread:{} queries
497 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
498 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
499 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
501 Command Line Interface
502 ----------------------
504 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
506 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
508 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
510 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
511 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
512 does not have to be available during message receipt.
517 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
523 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
524 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
526 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
527 ===========================
532 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
534 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
535 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
536 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
538 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
540 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
541 related abort in `notmuch show`.
543 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
544 ===========================
549 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
550 better late than never.
553 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
554 =========================
556 Command Line Interface
557 ----------------------
559 Support for re-indexing existing messages
561 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
562 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
563 change the way specific messages are indexed.
565 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
566 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
567 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
569 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
571 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
573 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
575 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
576 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
577 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
578 the setting of `new.tags`.
580 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
582 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
584 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
586 This inserts into the top level folder.
588 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
590 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
592 New option --output=address for notmuch address
594 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
596 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
598 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
599 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
600 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
602 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
607 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
609 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
610 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
611 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
612 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
613 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
614 config set index.decrypt true".
616 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
617 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
618 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
619 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
620 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
621 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
622 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
623 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
625 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
626 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
627 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
628 this feature without considering the security of your index.
633 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
635 Use make-process when available
637 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
638 notmuch command without using temporary files.
643 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
645 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
646 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
647 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
648 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
650 New functions to count files
652 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
653 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
655 New function to remove properties
657 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
658 drop all properties with a common pattern:
659 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
661 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
663 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
664 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
665 possibility of NULL was not documented.
667 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
669 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
670 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
671 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
672 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
673 operator may decide to change from message to message.
680 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
681 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
682 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
688 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
690 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
691 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
693 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
695 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
697 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
699 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
704 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
705 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
707 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
708 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
709 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
710 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
711 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
712 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
717 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
719 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
720 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
721 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
722 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
724 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
725 ===========================
730 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
731 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
734 Command Line Interface
735 ----------------------
737 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
738 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
741 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
742 ===========================
744 Command Line Interface
745 ----------------------
747 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
748 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
753 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
756 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
757 ===========================
762 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
765 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
766 =========================
771 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
773 Skip HTML tags when indexing
775 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
777 Command Line Interface
778 ----------------------
780 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
782 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
787 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
789 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
790 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
793 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
798 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
800 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
801 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
803 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
805 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
806 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
809 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
811 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
813 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
815 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
816 ===========================
818 Command Line Interface
819 ----------------------
821 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
826 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
828 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
829 ===========================
834 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
836 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
837 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
840 Command Line Interface
841 ----------------------
843 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
845 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
847 Fix bug in dump header
849 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
850 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
851 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
856 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
858 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
859 =========================
864 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
866 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
869 Command Line Interface
870 ----------------------
872 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
874 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
875 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
876 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
878 New default output format to 3
880 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
881 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
882 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
883 default format changes.
888 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
890 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
891 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
892 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
893 or tree view to resume.
895 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
896 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
897 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
900 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
901 they were when you postponed in the final message.
905 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
906 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
907 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
908 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
909 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
913 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
914 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
915 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
916 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
917 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
918 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
922 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
923 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
925 Stop display of `application/*` parts
927 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
928 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
929 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
930 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
931 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
932 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
933 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
934 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
937 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
939 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
940 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
941 only tagged the current thread.)
943 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
945 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
946 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
947 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
949 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
951 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
952 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
953 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
954 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
955 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
956 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
957 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
959 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
961 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
962 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
963 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
968 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
970 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
973 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
975 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
978 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
979 ===========================
984 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
986 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
987 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
988 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
991 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
992 ===========================
994 Command Line Interface
995 ----------------------
997 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1002 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1004 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1005 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1006 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1008 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1009 ===========================
1014 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1015 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1017 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1018 ===========================
1020 Command Line Interface
1021 ----------------------
1023 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1025 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1026 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1027 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1032 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1034 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1035 ===========================
1037 Command Line Interface
1038 ----------------------
1040 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1045 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1047 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1048 ===========================
1053 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1055 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1056 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1057 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1059 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1061 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1063 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1064 ===========================
1069 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1071 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1076 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1078 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1079 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1080 the original colours.
1082 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1083 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1085 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1087 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1088 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1089 bug, and hence the test.
1091 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1092 =========================
1094 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1095 ---------------------
1097 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1099 Support for single argument date: queries
1101 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1103 Support for blocking opens
1105 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1106 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1108 Support for named queries
1110 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1111 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1112 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1117 Message property API
1119 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1120 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1121 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1122 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1124 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1126 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1131 Support for compile time options
1133 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1134 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1137 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1139 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1140 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1141 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1142 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1143 scripts to ignore it.
1148 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1150 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1151 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1152 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1154 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1155 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1156 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1157 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1158 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1159 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1160 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1162 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1163 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1166 Make internal address completion customizable
1168 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1169 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1170 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1171 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1174 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1176 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1177 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1178 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1179 completion for the current buffer.
1181 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1182 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1183 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1187 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1188 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1189 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1190 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1191 will be added instead.
1193 Face customization is easier
1195 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1196 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1197 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1198 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1200 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1205 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1210 Go bindings moved to contrib
1212 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1214 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1216 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1217 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1219 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1221 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1222 ===========================
1229 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1230 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1232 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1234 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1236 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1237 ===========================
1242 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1244 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1249 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1254 Use `env` to locate perl.
1259 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1261 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1263 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1265 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1267 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1268 =========================
1275 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1276 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1278 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1280 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1281 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1282 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1287 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1288 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1289 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1291 Command Line Interface
1292 ----------------------
1294 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1296 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1301 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1306 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1308 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1309 parts are now included in replies.
1311 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1312 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1313 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1314 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1316 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1318 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1320 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1322 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1323 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1324 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1325 forwards only the current message.
1327 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1329 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1330 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1331 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1332 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1333 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1334 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1335 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1336 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1339 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1340 longer generate empty buffers
1342 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1343 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1344 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1345 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1346 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1348 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1350 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1353 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1355 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1358 Address completion improvements
1360 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1361 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1362 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1363 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1364 interactive address completion.
1366 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1368 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1369 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1370 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1375 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1376 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1377 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1383 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1384 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1385 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1386 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1387 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1388 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1390 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1391 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1392 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1393 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1394 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1395 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1397 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1398 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1400 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1401 =========================
1406 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1409 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1411 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1412 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1413 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1415 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1416 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1418 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1419 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1420 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1422 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1424 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1425 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1426 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1427 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1428 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1429 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1434 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1435 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1438 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1439 option to configure.
1441 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1443 Command Line Interface
1444 ----------------------
1446 Database revision tracking
1448 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1449 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1450 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1451 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1453 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1455 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1456 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1457 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1458 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1459 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1460 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1461 manual page for further information.
1466 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1468 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1469 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1471 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1473 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1474 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1475 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1477 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1479 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1481 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1482 customization as well.
1484 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1486 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1488 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1490 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1492 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1493 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1494 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1495 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1497 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1499 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1500 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1501 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1502 this variable to 10000.
1507 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1508 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1510 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1512 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1513 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1514 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1515 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1516 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1517 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1518 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1519 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1520 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1523 Database revision tracking
1525 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1526 query parser and the new function
1527 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1529 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1531 Deprecated functions
1533 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1534 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1535 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1536 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1541 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1543 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1544 ===========================
1549 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1551 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1552 ===========================
1557 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1559 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1560 =========================
1562 Command-Line Interface
1563 ----------------------
1565 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1567 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1568 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1569 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1571 Path to gpg is now configurable
1573 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1574 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1579 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1581 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1586 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1591 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1596 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1598 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1599 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1601 New error logging facility
1603 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1604 output formerly printed to stderr.
1606 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1608 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1610 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1612 Fix for rounding of seconds
1617 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1619 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1620 documentation has been removed.
1622 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1624 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1625 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1630 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1631 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1632 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1637 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1638 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1639 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1640 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1641 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1642 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1645 git checkout config origin/config
1647 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1649 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1650 =========================
1655 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1656 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1657 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1658 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1659 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1660 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1661 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1663 Command-Line Interface
1664 ----------------------
1666 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1668 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1669 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1670 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1671 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1672 script callers should still check the return value.
1674 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1676 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1677 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1678 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1679 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1680 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1681 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1682 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1684 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1686 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1687 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1688 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1690 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1692 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1693 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1694 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1695 currently unmaintained.
1697 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1699 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1700 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1701 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1702 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1704 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1706 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1707 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1708 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1709 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1710 count of duplicate addresses.
1715 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1717 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1718 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1719 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1722 Improved handling of the unread tag
1724 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1725 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1726 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1727 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1728 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1729 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1730 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1732 Expanded default saved search settings
1734 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1735 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1737 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1739 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1740 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1741 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1743 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1745 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1746 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1747 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1748 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1749 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1750 the variable for details.
1755 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1757 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1758 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1759 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1760 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1762 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1764 Previously, library users were required to call
1765 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1766 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1767 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1768 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1769 too out of date for that API.
1771 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1773 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1774 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1775 atomic section will be aborted.
1777 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1778 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1780 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1782 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1783 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1784 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1785 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1786 messages into the same thread.
1791 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1792 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1793 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1794 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1795 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1796 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1801 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1802 from the config file. Use something like:
1806 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1807 "footer": "</body></html>",
1816 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1821 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1822 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1823 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1825 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1826 ===========================
1831 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1833 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1835 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1837 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1838 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1840 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1842 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1845 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1846 ===========================
1848 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1853 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1855 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1857 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1859 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1861 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1867 Use --quick when starting emacs
1869 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1871 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1873 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1875 Command-Line Interface
1876 ----------------------
1878 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1879 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1884 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1886 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1887 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1889 Fix for phrase indexing
1891 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1892 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1893 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1898 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1900 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1901 unintentionally removed.
1903 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1904 =========================
1909 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1910 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1911 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1912 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1913 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1914 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1915 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1916 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1917 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1923 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1925 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1926 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1927 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1928 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1929 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1930 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1931 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1932 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1934 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1936 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1937 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1938 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1939 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1942 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1944 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1945 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1946 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1947 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1948 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1949 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1950 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1955 Notmuch database upgrade
1957 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1958 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1959 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1960 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1961 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1962 released version of Notmuch before now.
1964 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1966 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1967 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1968 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1969 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1971 Message header parsing changes
1973 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1974 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1975 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1976 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1977 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1978 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1980 Command-Line Interface
1981 ----------------------
1983 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1985 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1987 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1989 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1991 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1993 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1994 user does not want it.
1996 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1998 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1999 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2000 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2001 support formatted output.
2003 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2005 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2006 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2007 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2015 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2016 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2017 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2018 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2019 `~/.emacs` with these.
2021 Changed format for saved searches
2023 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2024 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2025 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2026 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2029 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2030 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2031 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2032 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2034 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2035 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2036 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2038 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2039 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2040 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2041 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2042 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2044 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2046 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2047 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2048 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2050 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2052 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2053 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2054 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2055 message had been unread).
2057 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2058 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2059 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2060 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2062 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2063 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2064 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2066 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2067 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2068 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2069 to tags already present.
2073 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2074 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2075 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2076 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2077 these differ from each other.
2078 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2080 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2082 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2083 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2084 for these Emacs versions.
2086 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2088 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2089 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2091 Bug fixes for sender identities
2093 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2094 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2095 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2097 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2099 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2100 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2101 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2102 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2104 Reply pushes mark before signature
2106 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2107 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2108 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2110 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2112 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2113 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2119 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2120 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2122 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2123 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2124 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2125 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2127 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2128 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2129 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2130 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2131 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2133 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2135 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2136 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2138 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2139 =========================
2141 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2142 ---------------------------------------
2144 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2145 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2146 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2147 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2148 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2149 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2150 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2154 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2155 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2157 Command-Line Interface
2158 ----------------------
2160 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2162 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2163 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2164 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2165 print for each message.
2167 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2168 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2169 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2170 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2172 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2174 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2175 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2176 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2178 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2180 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2181 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2182 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2183 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2185 `notmuch compact` command
2187 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2188 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2189 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2190 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2191 move the compacted database into place.
2196 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2198 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2199 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2200 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2201 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2202 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2203 and multiple threads.
2205 Using `notmuch-tree`
2207 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2209 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2210 search, show and tree mode itself)
2212 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2215 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2216 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2218 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2220 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2221 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2222 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2223 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2224 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2225 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2226 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2228 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2230 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2231 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2232 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2233 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2234 thread when the search was performed.
2236 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2238 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2239 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2240 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2242 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2244 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2245 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2248 Built-in help improvements
2250 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2251 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2252 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2254 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2256 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2257 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2258 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2260 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2262 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2263 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2265 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2267 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2268 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2269 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2270 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2272 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2274 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2275 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2276 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2277 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2279 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2281 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2282 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2283 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2285 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2287 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2288 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2289 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2291 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2293 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2294 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2295 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2296 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2297 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2299 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2301 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2302 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2303 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2304 the body part of the message.
2309 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2310 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2311 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2313 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2314 =========================
2316 Command-Line Interface
2317 ----------------------
2319 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2321 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2322 folder and notmuch index.
2324 `notmuch count --batch` option
2326 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2327 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2329 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2331 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2332 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2333 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2336 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2338 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2339 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2340 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2341 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2342 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2345 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2347 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2348 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2350 Top level option to specify configuration file
2352 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2353 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2355 Bash command-line completion
2357 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2358 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2359 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2360 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2361 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2362 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2363 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2364 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2365 bash-completion package.
2367 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2372 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2374 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2375 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2376 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2377 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2378 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2379 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2380 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2381 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2383 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2385 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2386 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2387 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2389 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2391 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2392 previous thread in the search results.
2394 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2396 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2397 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2399 Faster search and show
2401 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2402 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2403 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2404 threads should show faster.
2408 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2409 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2410 in question was now removed from this release.
2415 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2416 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2421 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2423 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2424 ===========================
2429 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2431 Internal test framework changes
2432 -------------------------------
2434 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2435 being unimplemented.
2437 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2438 ===========================
2440 Internal test framework changes
2441 -------------------------------
2443 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2444 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2446 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2447 =========================
2452 Date range search support
2454 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2455 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2456 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2457 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2458 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2461 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2463 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2464 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2465 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2466 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2467 but may be removed in a future release.
2469 Command-Line Interface
2470 ----------------------
2472 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2474 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2475 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2477 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2479 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2480 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2481 officially deprecated.
2483 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2485 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2486 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2487 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2489 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2491 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2492 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2495 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2496 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2497 dump/restore format.
2499 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2501 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2502 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2503 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2505 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2507 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2508 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2509 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2511 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2513 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2514 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2515 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2516 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2521 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2523 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2524 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2525 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2526 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2528 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2530 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2531 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2532 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2533 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2534 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2535 the behavior of this, see
2536 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2537 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2539 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2540 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2541 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2543 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2545 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2546 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2549 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2551 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2552 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2553 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2554 simply displayed in place of the message.
2556 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2558 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2559 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2561 Improved text/calendar content handling
2563 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2564 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2565 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2566 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2568 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2570 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2571 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2572 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2573 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2575 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2577 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2578 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2579 for HTML email containing images.
2581 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2583 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2585 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2587 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2590 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2592 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2593 the point where it was.
2595 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2597 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2598 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2599 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2600 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2601 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2603 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2605 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2606 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2607 thread instead of the message id.
2609 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2610 -----------------------------
2612 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2613 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2614 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2615 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2616 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2617 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2618 further details and installation.
2623 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2625 Internal test framework changes
2626 -------------------------------
2628 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2630 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2631 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2632 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2633 can result in buggy behavior.
2635 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2636 =========================
2641 Maildir tag synchronization
2643 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2644 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2645 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2646 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2647 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2648 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2651 Command-Line Interface
2652 ----------------------
2654 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2655 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2656 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2657 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2658 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2664 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2666 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2668 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2669 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2670 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2672 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2674 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2675 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2676 span multiple lines.
2678 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2680 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2681 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2682 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2683 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2684 inside the result or message.
2686 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2688 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2689 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2691 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2692 user-specified formatting
2694 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2695 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2696 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2697 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2698 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2700 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2701 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2703 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2704 ===========================
2709 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2710 compilation error for this contrib package.
2712 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2713 ===========================
2718 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2720 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2721 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2722 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2723 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2725 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2726 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2729 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2730 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2731 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2732 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2735 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2737 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2740 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2741 =========================
2743 Command-Line Interface
2744 ----------------------
2748 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2749 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2750 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2751 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2753 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2754 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2755 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2756 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2760 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2761 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2763 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2764 tag in your query, for example:
2766 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2768 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2769 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2771 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2772 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2774 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2776 Raw show format changes
2778 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2779 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2780 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2781 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2782 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2783 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2784 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2785 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2787 Listing configuration items
2789 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2795 Changes to tagging interface
2797 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2798 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2799 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2800 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2801 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2802 for more information.
2804 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2805 may need to update in custom configurations.
2807 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2809 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2810 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2811 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2812 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2815 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2816 -----------------------------
2818 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2819 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2820 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2821 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2822 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2823 contrib/ from now on.
2828 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2829 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2831 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2832 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2834 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2835 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2836 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2838 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2839 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2841 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2842 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2843 returning the new database object or directory object.
2850 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2851 compatible with go 1.
2853 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2854 =========================
2856 Command-Line Interface
2857 ----------------------
2861 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2862 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2863 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2864 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2866 Mail store folder/file ignore
2868 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2869 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2870 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2872 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2873 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2875 Unified help and manual pages
2877 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2878 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2881 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2883 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2884 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2892 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2893 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2894 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2895 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2897 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2899 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2900 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2902 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2905 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2906 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2907 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2909 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2911 should be changed to:
2913 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2915 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2917 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2918 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2920 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2922 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2923 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2924 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2925 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2926 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2927 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2931 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2932 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2933 of Mailing List Archives.
2935 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2937 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2938 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2941 Show view archiving key binding changes
2943 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2944 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2945 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2946 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2947 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2950 Support text/calendar MIME type
2952 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2955 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2957 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2958 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2959 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2960 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2962 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2964 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2965 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2966 messages blue by default in the search view.
2970 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2971 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2978 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2981 Python bindings changes
2982 -----------------------
2984 Python 3.2 compatibility
2986 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2988 Added missing unicode conversions
2990 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2991 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2992 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2997 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2999 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3000 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3001 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3002 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3003 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3005 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3006 ===========================
3011 Fix error handling in python bindings
3013 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3014 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3015 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3016 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3018 Quote MML tags in replies
3020 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3021 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3022 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3023 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3024 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3025 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3026 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3027 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3029 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3030 =========================
3032 Command-Line Interface
3033 ----------------------
3037 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3038 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3039 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3040 importing new messages into the database.
3042 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3044 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3045 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3046 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3051 Automatic tag query optimization
3053 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3054 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3055 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3057 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3059 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3060 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3061 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3066 Reduction of memory leaks
3068 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3069 and fixed in this release.
3076 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3077 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3078 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3081 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3083 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3084 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3085 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3088 Improvements in saved search management
3090 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3091 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3092 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3094 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3096 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3097 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3098 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3100 New face for crypto parts headers
3102 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3103 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3104 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3107 Use space as default thousands separator
3109 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3110 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3111 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3113 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3114 buttonized id: links
3116 New function notmuch-show-advance
3118 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3119 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3120 be bound to SPC with:
3122 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3124 Various performance improvements
3129 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3130 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3133 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3134 ===========================
3139 Fix crash in python bindings
3141 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3142 for some, but not all users.
3144 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3145 ===========================
3150 Fix `--help` argument
3152 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3153 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3154 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3156 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3157 =========================
3159 New build and testing features
3160 ------------------------------
3162 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3163 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3164 prerequisites is improved.
3166 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3168 New command-line features
3169 -------------------------
3171 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3173 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3174 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3177 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3179 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3180 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3181 favour of using stdout.
3183 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3185 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3186 limit the number of results shown.
3188 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3190 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3191 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3194 New emacs UI features
3195 ---------------------
3197 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3199 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3200 starting with "tag:".
3202 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3204 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3205 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3207 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3209 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3211 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3213 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3214 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3219 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3221 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3223 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3224 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3225 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3226 requires a database rebuild:
3228 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3229 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3231 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3233 New collection of add-on tools
3234 ------------------------------
3236 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3237 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3238 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3241 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3243 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3244 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3245 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3247 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3248 ========================
3250 New, general features
3251 ---------------------
3253 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3255 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3256 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3257 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3258 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3259 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3266 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3267 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3269 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3273 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3274 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3275 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3278 Python bindings changes
3279 -----------------------
3281 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3283 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3284 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3285 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3286 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3287 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3288 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3290 Ruby bindings changes
3291 ---------------------
3293 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3294 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3295 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3296 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3301 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3303 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3304 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3306 Reply formatting cleanup
3307 ------------------------
3309 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3310 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3312 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3313 ========================
3315 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3317 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3318 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3319 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3320 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3323 Improved Build system portability
3325 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3326 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3327 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3329 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3331 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3333 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3335 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3336 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3337 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3339 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3340 ========================
3342 Vim interface improvements
3343 --------------------------
3345 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3347 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3348 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3349 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3350 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3351 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3353 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3355 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3356 * fix compose temp file name
3358 Python Bindings changes
3359 -----------------------
3361 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3363 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3364 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3366 Build-System improvements
3367 -------------------------
3369 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3371 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3374 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3375 ==========================
3380 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3382 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3383 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3385 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3386 =======================
3388 New, general features
3389 ---------------------
3391 Folder-based searching
3393 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3394 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3395 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3399 For example, one might use things such as:
3405 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3406 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3408 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3409 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3410 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3411 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3413 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3414 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3415 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3418 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3419 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3421 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3423 Support for PGP/MIME
3425 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3426 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3427 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3429 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3431 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3432 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3434 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3435 notmuch will receive these tags.
3437 New command-line features
3438 -------------------------
3440 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3442 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3443 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3445 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3447 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3448 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3449 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3451 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3453 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3454 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3455 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3456 which parts a signature part applies).
3458 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3460 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3461 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3462 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3463 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3464 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3467 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3469 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3470 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3471 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3472 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3473 by translating it internally to the new call.
3475 Performance improvements
3476 ------------------------
3478 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3480 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3481 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3482 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3484 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3485 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3487 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3489 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3490 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3491 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3493 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3494 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3495 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3496 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3498 Faster initial indexing
3500 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3501 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3502 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3504 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3506 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3507 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3508 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3509 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3511 New emacs-interface features
3512 ----------------------------
3514 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3516 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3517 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3518 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3519 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3520 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3521 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3523 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3525 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3526 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3527 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3528 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3530 User-selectable From address
3532 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3533 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3534 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3535 will prompt for the from address to use.
3537 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3538 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3539 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3541 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3542 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3543 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3546 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3548 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3549 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3551 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3553 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3555 ----- Original Message -----
3557 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3558 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3559 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3560 citations work much like conventional citations.
3562 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3564 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3565 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3566 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3567 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3568 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3570 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3571 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3573 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3575 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3576 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3577 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3579 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3581 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3582 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3583 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3584 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3585 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3587 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3589 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3592 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3594 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3596 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3598 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3601 Vim interface improvements
3602 --------------------------
3604 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3606 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3607 * Implementing archive in show view
3608 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3609 * Add delete commands
3612 Bindings improvements
3613 ---------------------
3615 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3617 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3618 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3620 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3622 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3626 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3627 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3628 `list(Messages)` works now
3629 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3631 These allow, for example:
3633 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3635 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3637 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3643 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3645 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3648 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3650 New build-system features
3651 -------------------------
3653 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3655 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3656 the configure script from some other directory:
3663 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3665 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3666 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3667 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3668 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3669 manual invocation of configure.
3671 New test-suite feature
3672 ----------------------
3674 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3676 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3677 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3678 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3679 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3680 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3683 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3685 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3686 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3687 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3688 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3689 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3690 are updated to take advantage of this.
3692 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3694 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3695 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3696 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3697 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3703 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3705 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3706 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3707 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3709 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3711 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3713 to:user@elsewhere.com
3715 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3717 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3719 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3721 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3722 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3723 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3726 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3727 from the Received headers in some cases
3729 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3730 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3732 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3734 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3736 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3738 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3739 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3740 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3742 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3743 -------------------------
3745 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3747 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3748 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3749 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3751 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3753 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3754 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3755 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3758 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3760 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3761 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3762 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3763 fixed to avoid this bug.
3765 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3767 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3768 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3770 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3771 ========================
3773 New, general features
3774 ---------------------
3776 Maildir-flag synchronization
3778 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3779 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3788 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3790 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3791 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3792 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3793 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3795 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3796 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3797 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3798 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3801 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3803 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3804 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3805 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3807 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3808 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3810 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3811 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3813 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3814 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3815 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3817 New library features
3818 --------------------
3820 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3822 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3823 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3824 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3825 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3827 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3828 message with the new function:
3830 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3832 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3833 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3834 over all available filenames for a given message.
3836 New command-line features
3837 -------------------------
3839 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3841 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3842 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3843 access to the mail store itself.
3845 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3846 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3847 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3848 name of a script containing:
3850 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3852 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3853 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3859 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3861 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3863 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3865 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3866 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3867 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3868 now produces nothing).
3870 Emacs interface improvements
3871 ----------------------------
3873 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3875 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3877 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3879 Display current thread subject in a header line
3881 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3883 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3885 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3886 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3887 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3888 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3889 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3890 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3891 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3893 Vim interface improvements
3894 --------------------------
3896 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3898 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3899 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3905 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3907 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3908 ========================
3910 New command-line features
3911 -------------------------
3913 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3915 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3916 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3917 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3919 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3920 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3921 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3922 scripts. For example:
3924 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3925 <operations-on> "$file"
3928 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3930 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3931 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3932 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3933 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3934 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3935 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3937 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3939 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3940 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3941 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3942 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3944 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3946 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3947 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3948 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3949 default rather than Bcc.
3951 New library features
3952 --------------------
3954 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3956 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3957 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3962 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3964 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3965 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3966 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3967 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3968 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3969 notmuch customize interface.
3971 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3973 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3974 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3975 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3976 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3978 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3980 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3981 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3982 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3983 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3985 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3987 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3988 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3989 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3990 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3991 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3992 notmuch customize interface.
3994 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3996 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3997 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3998 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3999 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4000 notmuch customize interface.
4002 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4004 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4005 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4006 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4007 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4010 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4012 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4013 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4014 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4017 New build-system features
4018 -------------------------
4020 Various portability fixes have been applied
4022 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4023 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4024 more portable than ever before.
4026 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4028 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4029 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4030 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4032 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4033 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4034 automatically run ldconfig.
4036 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4037 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4038 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4040 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4041 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4042 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4043 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4045 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4047 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4048 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4049 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4050 used in the resulting Makefile.
4052 New test-suite features
4053 -----------------------
4055 New modularization of test suite
4057 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4058 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4059 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4060 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4061 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4062 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4063 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4064 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4066 New testing of emacs interface
4068 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4069 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4070 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4071 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4072 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4073 database via the FCC setting.
4078 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4080 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4081 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4082 persistent error of the form:
4084 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4086 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4087 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4089 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4091 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4092 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4093 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4095 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4097 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4098 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4099 parsing the notmuch results).
4101 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4103 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4106 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4107 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4108 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4113 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4115 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4116 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4117 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4118 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4119 the emacs interface.
4121 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4123 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4124 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4125 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4127 Python-binding fixes
4128 --------------------
4130 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4132 Debian-specific fixes
4133 ---------------------
4135 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4137 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4138 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4139 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4142 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4143 ==========================
4148 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4150 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4151 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4152 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4153 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4155 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4157 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4158 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4159 want notmuch to crash.
4164 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4166 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4167 directory does not exist
4172 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4174 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4175 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4177 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4178 ========================
4180 New command-line features
4181 -------------------------
4183 User-configurable tags for new messages
4185 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4186 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4187 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4188 to specify this value.
4190 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4192 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4193 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4194 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4196 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4198 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4199 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4201 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4203 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4204 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4205 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4206 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4207 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4210 Indication of author names that match a search
4212 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4213 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4214 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4215 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4216 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4217 messages in the thread are listed first.
4219 New: Python bindings
4220 --------------------
4222 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4223 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4224 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4225 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4227 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4228 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4229 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4232 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4233 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4234 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4236 Emacs interface improvements
4237 ----------------------------
4239 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4241 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4242 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4243 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4244 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4245 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4246 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4247 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4248 but without any of the disadvantages).
4250 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4251 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4252 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4255 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4256 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4257 instead running something like:
4259 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4261 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4262 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4263 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4266 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4268 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4269 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4270 tweaked by the user.
4272 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4273 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4274 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4277 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4278 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4279 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4282 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4284 This support currently relies on an external program,
4285 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4286 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4287 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4288 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4289 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4292 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4293 notmuch) is available via:
4295 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4297 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4298 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4299 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4301 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4303 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4304 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4305 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4306 making this automatic in a future release.
4308 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4310 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4311 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4312 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4313 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4314 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4315 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4318 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4320 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4321 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4322 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4324 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4326 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4327 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4328 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4330 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4331 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4332 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4333 other representation.
4335 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4336 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4339 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4341 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4342 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4343 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4345 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4346 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4347 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4349 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4351 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4352 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4353 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4354 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4355 to display the search result.
4357 More flexible handling of header visibility
4359 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4360 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4361 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4362 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4363 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4364 with the 'h' keybinding.
4366 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4367 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4368 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4370 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4372 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4374 Customizable formatting of search results
4376 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4377 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4378 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4380 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4382 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4384 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4389 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4391 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4392 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4393 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4394 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4400 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4402 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4403 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4405 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4407 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4408 accept are now all accepted.
4413 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4415 Better display of output from failed tests
4417 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4418 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4420 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4421 ========================
4423 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4424 detailed release notes this time!
4426 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4427 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4429 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4430 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4431 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4432 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4439 Better guessing of From: header
4441 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4442 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4443 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4444 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4445 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4448 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4450 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4451 guaranteed to match all messages.
4453 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4455 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4456 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4457 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4458 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4459 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4462 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4465 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4466 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4467 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4468 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4473 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4475 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4476 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4477 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4478 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4480 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4482 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4484 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4485 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4486 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4488 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4490 Previously, the user might see:
4492 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4496 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4498 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4499 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4500 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4501 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4503 Emacs client features
4504 ---------------------
4506 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4508 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4509 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4510 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4511 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4512 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4514 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4517 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4518 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4519 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4520 search with the '*' binding.
4522 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4524 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4525 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4528 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4530 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4531 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4532 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4534 Build-system features
4535 ---------------------
4537 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4539 Add support to configure for many standard options
4541 We include actual support for:
4543 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4545 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4547 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4548 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4550 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4551 separate "make install-emacs"
4553 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4555 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4556 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4557 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4559 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4562 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4563 ========================
4565 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4567 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4568 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4570 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4571 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4572 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4573 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4574 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4575 tags from messages in a thread.
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