1 Notmuch 0.22 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
7 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
9 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
10 parts are now included in replies.
12 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
13 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
14 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
15 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
17 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
19 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
21 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
22 =========================
27 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
30 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
32 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
33 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
34 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
36 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
39 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
40 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
41 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
43 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
45 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
46 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
47 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
48 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
49 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
50 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
55 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
56 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
59 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
62 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
64 Command Line Interface
65 ----------------------
67 Database revision tracking
69 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
70 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
71 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
72 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
74 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
76 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
77 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
78 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
79 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
80 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
81 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
82 manual page for further information.
87 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
89 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
90 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
92 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
94 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
95 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
96 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
98 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
100 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
102 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
103 customization as well.
105 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
107 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
109 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
111 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
113 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
114 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
115 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
116 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
118 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
120 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
121 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
122 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
123 this variable to 10000.
128 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
129 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
131 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
133 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
134 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
135 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
136 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
137 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
138 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
139 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
140 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
141 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
144 Database revision tracking
146 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
147 query parser and the new function
148 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
150 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
154 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
155 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
156 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
157 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
162 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
164 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
165 ===========================
170 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
172 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
173 ===========================
178 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
180 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
181 =========================
183 Command-Line Interface
184 ----------------------
186 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
188 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
189 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
190 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
192 Path to gpg is now configurable
194 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
195 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
200 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
202 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
207 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
212 Support messages without Message-IDs.
217 Undeprecate single message mboxes
219 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
220 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
222 New error logging facility
224 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
225 output formerly printed to stderr.
227 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
229 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
231 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
233 Fix for rounding of seconds
238 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
240 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
241 docmumentation has been removed.
243 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
245 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
246 some material from the relicensed wiki.
251 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
252 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
253 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
258 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
259 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
260 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
261 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
262 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
263 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
266 git checkout config origin/config
268 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
270 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
271 =========================
276 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
277 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
278 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
279 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
280 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
281 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
282 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
284 Command-Line Interface
285 ----------------------
287 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
289 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
290 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
291 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
292 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
293 script callers should still check the return value.
295 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
297 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
298 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
299 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
300 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
301 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
302 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
303 and returning success even if indexing fails).
305 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
307 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
308 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
309 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
311 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
313 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
314 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
315 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
316 currently unmaintained.
318 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
320 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
321 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
322 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
323 have at least `N` files associated with them.
325 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
327 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
328 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
329 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
330 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
331 count of duplicate addresses.
336 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
338 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
339 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
340 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
343 Improved handling of the unread tag
345 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
346 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
347 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
348 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
349 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
350 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
351 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
353 Expanded default saved search settings
355 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
356 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
358 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
360 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
361 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
362 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
364 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
366 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
367 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
368 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
369 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
370 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
371 the variable for details.
376 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
378 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
379 Representing these independently of the database version number will
380 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
381 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
383 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
385 Previously, library users were required to call
386 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
387 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
388 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
389 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
390 too out of date for that API.
392 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
394 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
395 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
396 atomic section will be aborted.
398 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
399 `notmuch_database_destroy`
401 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
403 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
404 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
405 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
406 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
407 messages into the same thread.
412 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
413 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
414 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
415 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
416 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
417 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
422 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
423 from the config file. Use something like:
427 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
428 "footer": "</body></html>",
437 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
442 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
443 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
444 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
446 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
447 ===========================
452 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
454 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
456 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
458 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
459 structure for signatures changed slightly.
461 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
463 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
466 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
467 ===========================
469 This is a bug fix and portability release.
474 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
476 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
478 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
480 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
482 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
488 Use --quick when starting emacs
490 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
492 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
494 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
496 Command-Line Interface
497 ----------------------
499 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
500 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
505 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
507 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
508 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
510 Fix for phrase indexing
512 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
513 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
514 will affect only newly indexed messages.
519 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
521 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
522 unintentionally removed.
524 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
525 =========================
530 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
531 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
532 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
533 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
534 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
535 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
536 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
537 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
538 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
544 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
546 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
547 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
548 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
549 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
550 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
551 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
552 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
553 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
555 There is a new `path:` search prefix
557 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
558 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
559 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
560 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
563 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
565 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
566 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
567 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
568 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
569 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
570 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
571 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
576 Notmuch database upgrade
578 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
579 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
580 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
581 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
582 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
583 released version of Notmuch before now.
585 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
587 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
588 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
589 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
590 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
592 Message header parsing changes
594 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
595 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
596 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
597 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
598 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
599 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
601 Command-Line Interface
602 ----------------------
604 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
606 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
608 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
610 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
612 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
614 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
615 user does not want it.
617 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
619 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
620 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
621 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
622 support formatted output.
624 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
626 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
627 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
628 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
636 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
637 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
638 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
639 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
640 `~/.emacs` with these.
642 Changed format for saved searches
644 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
645 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
646 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
647 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
650 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
651 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
652 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
653 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
655 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
656 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
657 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
659 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
660 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
661 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
662 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
663 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
665 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
667 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
668 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
669 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
671 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
673 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
674 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
675 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
676 message had been unread).
678 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
679 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
680 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
681 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
683 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
684 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
685 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
687 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
688 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
689 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
690 to tags already present.
694 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
695 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
696 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
697 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
698 these differ from each other.
699 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
701 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
703 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
704 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
705 for these Emacs versions.
707 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
709 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
710 newlines before calling notmuch count.
712 Bug fixes for sender identities
714 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
715 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
716 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
718 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
720 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
721 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
722 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
723 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
725 Reply pushes mark before signature
727 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
728 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
729 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
731 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
733 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
734 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
740 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
741 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
743 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
744 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
745 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
746 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
748 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
749 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
750 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
751 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
752 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
754 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
756 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
757 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
759 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
760 =========================
762 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
763 ---------------------------------------
765 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
766 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
767 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
768 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
769 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
770 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
771 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
775 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
776 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
778 Command-Line Interface
779 ----------------------
781 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
783 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
784 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
785 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
786 print for each message.
788 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
789 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
790 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
791 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
793 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
795 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
796 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
797 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
799 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
801 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
802 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
803 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
804 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
806 `notmuch compact` command
808 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
809 functionality through a more convenient interface than
810 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
811 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
812 move the compacted database into place.
817 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
819 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
820 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
821 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
822 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
823 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
824 and multiple threads.
828 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
830 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
831 search, show and tree mode itself)
833 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
836 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
837 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
839 Customising `notmuch-tree`
841 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
842 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
843 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
844 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
845 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
846 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
847 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
849 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
851 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
852 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
853 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
854 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
855 thread when the search was performed.
857 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
859 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
860 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
861 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
863 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
865 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
866 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
869 Built-in help improvements
871 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
872 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
873 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
875 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
877 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
878 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
879 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
881 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
883 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
884 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
886 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
888 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
889 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
890 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
891 to move some of them to the common keymap.
893 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
895 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
896 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
897 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
898 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
900 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
902 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
903 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
904 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
906 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
908 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
909 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
910 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
912 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
914 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
915 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
916 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
917 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
918 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
920 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
922 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
923 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
924 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
925 the body part of the message.
930 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
931 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
932 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
934 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
935 =========================
937 Command-Line Interface
938 ----------------------
940 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
942 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
943 folder and notmuch index.
945 `notmuch count --batch` option
947 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
948 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
950 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
952 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
953 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
954 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
957 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
959 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
960 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
961 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
962 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
963 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
966 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
968 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
969 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
971 Top level option to specify configuration file
973 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
974 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
976 Bash command-line completion
978 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
979 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
980 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
981 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
982 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
983 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
984 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
985 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
986 bash-completion package.
988 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
993 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
995 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
996 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
997 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
998 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
999 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
1000 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
1001 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
1002 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
1004 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
1006 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
1007 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
1008 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
1010 Key bindings for next/previous thread
1012 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
1013 previous thread in the search results.
1015 Better handling of errors in search buffers
1017 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
1018 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
1020 Faster search and show
1022 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
1023 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
1024 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
1025 threads should show faster.
1029 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
1030 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
1031 in question was now removed from this release.
1036 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
1037 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
1042 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
1044 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
1045 ===========================
1050 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
1052 Internal test framework changes
1053 -------------------------------
1055 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
1056 being unimplemented.
1058 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
1059 ===========================
1061 Internal test framework changes
1062 -------------------------------
1064 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
1065 build failures in non-interactive environments.
1067 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
1068 =========================
1073 Date range search support
1075 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
1076 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
1077 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
1078 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
1079 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
1082 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
1084 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
1085 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
1086 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
1087 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
1088 but may be removed in a future release.
1090 Command-Line Interface
1091 ----------------------
1093 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
1095 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
1096 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
1098 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
1100 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
1101 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
1102 officially deprecated.
1104 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
1106 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
1107 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
1108 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
1110 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
1112 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
1113 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
1116 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
1117 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
1118 dump/restore format.
1120 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
1122 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
1123 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
1124 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
1126 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
1128 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
1129 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
1130 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
1132 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
1134 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
1135 output separated by null characters rather than newline
1136 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
1137 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
1142 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
1144 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
1145 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
1146 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
1147 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1149 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
1151 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
1152 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
1153 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
1154 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
1155 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
1156 the behavior of this, see
1157 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
1158 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
1160 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
1161 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
1162 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
1164 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
1166 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
1167 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
1170 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
1172 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
1173 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
1174 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
1175 simply displayed in place of the message.
1177 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1179 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1180 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1182 Improved text/calendar content handling
1184 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1185 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1186 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1187 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1189 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1191 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1192 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1193 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1194 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1196 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1198 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1199 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1200 for HTML email containing images.
1202 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1204 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1206 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1208 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1211 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1213 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1214 the point where it was.
1216 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1218 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1219 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1220 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1221 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1222 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1224 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1226 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1227 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1228 thread instead of the message id.
1230 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1231 -----------------------------
1233 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1234 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1235 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1236 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1237 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1238 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1239 further details and installation.
1244 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1246 Internal test framework changes
1247 -------------------------------
1249 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1251 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1252 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1253 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1254 can result in buggy behavior.
1256 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1257 =========================
1262 Maildir tag synchronization
1264 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1265 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1266 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1267 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1268 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1269 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1272 Command-Line Interface
1273 ----------------------
1275 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1276 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1277 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1278 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1279 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1285 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1287 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1289 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1290 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1291 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1293 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1295 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1296 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1297 span multiple lines.
1299 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1301 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1302 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1303 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1304 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1305 inside the result or message.
1307 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1309 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1310 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1312 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1313 user-specified formatting
1315 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1316 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1317 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1318 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1319 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1321 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1322 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1324 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1325 ===========================
1330 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1331 compilation error for this contrib package.
1333 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1334 ===========================
1339 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1341 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1342 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1343 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1344 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1346 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1347 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1350 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1351 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1352 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1353 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1356 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1358 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1361 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1362 =========================
1364 Command-Line Interface
1365 ----------------------
1369 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1370 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1371 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1372 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1374 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1375 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1376 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1377 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1381 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1382 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1384 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1385 tag in your query, for example:
1387 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1389 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1390 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1392 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1393 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1395 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1397 Raw show format changes
1399 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1400 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1401 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1402 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1403 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1404 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1405 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1406 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1408 Listing configuration items
1410 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1416 Changes to tagging interface
1418 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1419 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1420 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1421 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1422 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1423 for more information.
1425 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1426 may need to update in custom configurations.
1428 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1430 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1431 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1432 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1433 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1436 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1437 -----------------------------
1439 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1440 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1441 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1442 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1443 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1444 contrib/ from now on.
1449 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1450 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1452 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1453 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1455 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1456 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1457 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1459 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1460 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1462 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1463 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1464 returning the new database object or directory object.
1471 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1472 compatible with go 1.
1474 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1475 =========================
1477 Command-Line Interface
1478 ----------------------
1482 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1483 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1484 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1485 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1487 Mail store folder/file ignore
1489 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1490 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1491 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1493 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1494 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1496 Unified help and manual pages
1498 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1499 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1502 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1504 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1505 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1513 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1514 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1515 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1516 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1518 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1520 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1521 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1523 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1526 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1527 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1528 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1530 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1532 should be changed to:
1534 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1536 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1538 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1539 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1541 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1543 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1544 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1545 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1546 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1547 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1548 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1552 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1553 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1554 of Mailing List Archives.
1556 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1558 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1559 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1562 Show view archiving key binding changes
1564 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1565 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1566 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1567 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1568 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1571 Support text/calendar MIME type
1573 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1576 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1578 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1579 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1580 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1581 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1583 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1585 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1586 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1587 messages blue by default in the search view.
1591 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1592 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1599 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1602 Python bindings changes
1603 -----------------------
1605 Python 3.2 compatibility
1607 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1609 Added missing unicode conversions
1611 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1612 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1613 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1618 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1620 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1621 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1622 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1623 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1624 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1626 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1627 ===========================
1632 Fix error handling in python bindings
1634 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1635 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1636 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1637 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1639 Quote MML tags in replies
1641 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1642 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1643 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1644 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1645 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1646 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1647 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1648 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1650 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1651 =========================
1653 Command-Line Interface
1654 ----------------------
1658 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1659 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1660 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1661 importing new messages into the database.
1663 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1665 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1666 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1667 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1672 Automatic tag query optimization
1674 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1675 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1676 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1678 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1680 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1681 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1682 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1687 Reduction of memory leaks
1689 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1690 and fixed in this release.
1697 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1698 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1699 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1702 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1704 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1705 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1706 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1709 Improvements in saved search management
1711 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1712 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1713 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1715 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1717 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1718 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1719 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1721 New face for crypto parts headers
1723 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1724 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1725 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1728 Use space as default thousands separator
1730 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1731 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1732 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1734 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1735 buttonized id: links
1737 New function notmuch-show-advance
1739 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1740 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1741 be bound to SPC with:
1743 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1745 Various performance improvements
1750 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1751 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1754 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1755 ===========================
1760 Fix crash in python bindings
1762 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1763 for some, but not all users.
1765 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1766 ===========================
1771 Fix `--help` argument
1773 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1774 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1775 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1777 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1778 =========================
1780 New build and testing features
1781 ------------------------------
1783 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1784 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1785 prerequisites is improved.
1787 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1789 New command-line features
1790 -------------------------
1792 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1794 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1795 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1798 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1800 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1801 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1802 favour of using stdout.
1804 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1806 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1807 limit the number of results shown.
1809 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1811 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1812 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1815 New emacs UI features
1816 ---------------------
1818 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1820 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1821 starting with "tag:".
1823 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1825 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1826 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1828 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1830 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1832 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1834 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1835 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1840 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1842 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1844 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1845 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1846 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1847 requires a database rebuild:
1849 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1850 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1852 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1854 New collection of add-on tools
1855 ------------------------------
1857 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1858 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1859 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1862 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1864 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1865 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1866 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1868 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1869 ========================
1871 New, general features
1872 ---------------------
1874 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1876 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1877 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1878 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1879 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1880 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1887 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1888 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1890 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1894 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1895 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1896 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1899 Python bindings changes
1900 -----------------------
1902 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1904 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1905 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1906 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1907 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1908 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1909 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1911 Ruby bindings changes
1912 ---------------------
1914 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1915 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1916 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1917 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1922 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1924 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1925 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1927 Reply formatting cleanup
1928 ------------------------
1930 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1931 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1933 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1934 ========================
1936 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1938 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1939 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1940 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1941 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1944 Improved Build system portability
1946 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1947 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1948 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1950 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1952 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1954 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1956 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1957 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1958 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1960 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1961 ========================
1963 Vim interface improvements
1964 --------------------------
1966 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1968 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1969 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1970 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1971 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1972 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1974 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1976 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1977 * fix compose temp file name
1979 Python Bindings changes
1980 -----------------------
1982 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1984 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1985 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1987 Build-System improvements
1988 -------------------------
1990 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1992 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1995 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1996 ==========================
2001 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
2003 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
2004 people running gcc 4.4.5.
2006 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
2007 =======================
2009 New, general features
2010 ---------------------
2012 Folder-based searching
2014 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
2015 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
2016 storage). The syntax is as follows:
2020 For example, one might use things such as:
2026 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
2027 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
2029 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
2030 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
2031 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
2032 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
2034 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2035 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
2036 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
2039 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2040 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2042 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2044 Support for PGP/MIME
2046 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
2047 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2048 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
2050 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
2052 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
2053 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
2055 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
2056 notmuch will receive these tags.
2058 New command-line features
2059 -------------------------
2061 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
2063 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
2064 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
2066 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
2068 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
2069 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
2070 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
2072 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
2074 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
2075 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
2076 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
2077 which parts a signature part applies).
2079 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
2081 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
2082 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
2083 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
2084 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
2085 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
2088 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
2090 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
2091 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
2092 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
2093 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
2094 by translating it internally to the new call.
2096 Performance improvements
2097 ------------------------
2099 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
2101 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
2102 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
2103 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
2105 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
2106 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
2108 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
2110 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
2111 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
2112 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
2114 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
2115 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
2116 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
2117 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
2119 Faster initial indexing
2121 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
2122 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
2123 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
2125 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
2127 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
2128 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
2129 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
2130 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
2132 New emacs-interface features
2133 ----------------------------
2135 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
2137 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
2138 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
2139 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
2140 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
2141 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
2142 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
2144 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
2146 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
2147 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
2148 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
2149 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
2151 User-selectable From address
2153 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
2154 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
2155 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
2156 will prompt for the from address to use.
2158 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
2159 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
2160 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
2162 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
2163 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
2164 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
2167 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
2169 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
2170 its parent, the subject is not shown.
2172 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
2174 When a message contains a line looking something like:
2176 ----- Original Message -----
2178 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2179 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2180 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2181 citations work much like conventional citations.
2183 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2185 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2186 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2187 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2188 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2189 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2191 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2192 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2194 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2196 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2197 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2198 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2200 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2202 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2203 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2204 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2205 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2206 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2208 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2210 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2213 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2215 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2217 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2219 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2222 Vim interface improvements
2223 --------------------------
2225 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2227 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2228 * Implementing archive in show view
2229 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2230 * Add delete commands
2233 Bindings improvements
2234 ---------------------
2236 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2238 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2239 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2241 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2243 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2247 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2248 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2249 `list(Messages)` works now
2250 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2252 These allow, for example:
2254 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2256 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2258 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2264 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2266 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2269 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2271 New build-system features
2272 -------------------------
2274 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2276 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2277 the configure script from some other directory:
2284 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2286 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2287 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2288 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2289 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2290 manual invocation of configure.
2292 New test-suite feature
2293 ----------------------
2295 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2297 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2298 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2299 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2300 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2301 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2304 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2306 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2307 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2308 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2309 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2310 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2311 are updated to take advantage of this.
2313 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2315 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2316 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2317 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2318 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2324 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2326 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2327 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2328 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2330 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2332 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2334 to:user@elsewhere.com
2336 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2338 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2340 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2342 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2343 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2344 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2347 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2348 from the Received headers in some cases
2350 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2351 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2353 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2355 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2357 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2359 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2360 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2361 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2363 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2364 -------------------------
2366 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2368 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2369 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2370 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2372 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2374 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2375 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2376 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2379 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2381 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2382 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2383 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2384 fixed to avoid this bug.
2386 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2388 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2389 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2391 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2392 ========================
2394 New, general features
2395 ---------------------
2397 Maildir-flag synchronization
2399 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2400 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2409 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2411 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2412 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2413 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2414 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2416 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2417 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2418 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2419 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2422 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2424 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2425 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2426 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2428 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2429 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2431 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2432 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2434 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2435 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2436 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2438 New library features
2439 --------------------
2441 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2443 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2444 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2445 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2446 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2448 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2449 message with the new function:
2451 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2453 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2454 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2455 over all available filenames for a given message.
2457 New command-line features
2458 -------------------------
2460 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2462 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2463 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2464 access to the mail store itself.
2466 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2467 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2468 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2469 name of a script containing:
2471 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2473 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2474 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2480 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2482 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2484 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2486 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2487 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2488 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2489 now produces nothing).
2491 Emacs interface improvements
2492 ----------------------------
2494 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2496 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2498 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2500 Display current thread subject in a header line
2502 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2504 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2506 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2507 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2508 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2509 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2510 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2511 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2512 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2514 Vim interface improvements
2515 --------------------------
2517 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2519 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2520 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2526 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2528 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2529 ========================
2531 New command-line features
2532 -------------------------
2534 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2536 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2537 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2538 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2540 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2541 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2542 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2543 scripts. For example:
2545 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2546 <operations-on> "$file"
2549 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2551 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2552 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2553 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2554 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2555 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2556 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2558 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2560 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2561 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2562 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2563 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2565 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2567 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2568 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2569 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2570 default rather than Bcc.
2572 New library features
2573 --------------------
2575 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2577 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2578 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2583 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2585 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2586 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2587 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2588 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2589 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2590 notmuch customize interface.
2592 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2594 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2595 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2596 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2597 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2599 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2601 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2602 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2603 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2604 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2606 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2608 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2609 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2610 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2611 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2612 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2613 notmuch customize interface.
2615 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2617 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2618 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2619 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2620 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2621 notmuch customize interface.
2623 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2625 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2626 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2627 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2628 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2631 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2633 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2634 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2635 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2638 New build-system features
2639 -------------------------
2641 Various portability fixes have been applied
2643 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2644 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2645 more portable than ever before.
2647 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2649 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2650 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2651 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2653 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2654 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2655 automatically run ldconfig.
2657 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2658 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2659 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2661 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2662 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2663 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2664 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2666 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2668 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2669 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2670 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2671 used in the resulting Makefile.
2673 New test-suite features
2674 -----------------------
2676 New modularization of test suite
2678 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2679 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2680 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2681 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2682 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2683 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2684 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2685 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2687 New testing of emacs interface
2689 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2690 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2691 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2692 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2693 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2694 database via the FCC setting.
2699 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2701 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2702 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2703 persistent error of the form:
2705 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2707 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2708 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2710 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2712 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2713 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2714 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2716 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2718 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2719 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2720 parsing the notmuch results).
2722 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2724 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2727 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2728 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2729 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2734 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2736 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2737 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2738 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2739 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2740 the emacs interface.
2742 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2744 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2745 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2746 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2748 Python-binding fixes
2749 --------------------
2751 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2753 Debian-specific fixes
2754 ---------------------
2756 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2758 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2759 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2760 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2763 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2764 ==========================
2769 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2771 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2772 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2773 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2774 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2776 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2778 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2779 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2780 want notmuch to crash.
2785 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2787 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2788 directory does not exist
2793 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2795 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2796 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2798 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2799 ========================
2801 New command-line features
2802 -------------------------
2804 User-configurable tags for new messages
2806 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2807 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2808 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2809 to specify this value.
2811 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2813 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2814 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2815 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2817 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2819 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2820 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2822 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2824 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2825 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2826 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2827 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2828 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2831 Indication of author names that match a search
2833 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2834 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2835 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2836 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2837 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2838 messages in the thread are listed first.
2840 New: Python bindings
2841 --------------------
2843 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2844 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2845 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2846 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2848 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2849 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2850 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2853 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2854 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2855 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2857 Emacs interface improvements
2858 ----------------------------
2860 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2862 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2863 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2864 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2865 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2866 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2867 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2868 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2869 but without any of the disadvantages).
2871 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2872 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2873 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2876 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2877 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2878 instead running something like:
2880 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2882 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2883 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2884 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2887 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2889 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2890 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2891 tweaked by the user.
2893 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2894 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2895 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2898 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2899 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2900 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2903 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2905 This support currently relies on an external program,
2906 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2907 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2908 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2909 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2910 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2913 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2914 notmuch) is available via:
2916 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2918 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2919 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2920 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2922 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2924 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2925 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2926 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2927 making this automatic in a future release.
2929 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2931 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2932 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2933 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2934 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2935 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2936 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2939 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2941 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2942 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2943 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2945 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2947 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2948 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2949 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2951 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2952 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2953 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2954 other representation.
2956 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2957 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2960 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2962 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2963 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2964 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2966 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2967 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2968 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2970 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2972 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2973 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2974 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2975 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2976 to display the search result.
2978 More flexible handling of header visibility
2980 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2981 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2982 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2983 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2984 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2985 with the 'h' keybinding.
2987 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2988 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2989 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2991 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2993 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2995 Customizable formatting of search results
2997 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2998 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2999 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
3001 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
3003 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
3005 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
3010 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
3012 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
3013 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
3014 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
3015 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
3021 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
3023 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
3024 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
3026 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
3028 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
3029 accept are now all accepted.
3034 A large number of new tests for the many new features
3036 Better display of output from failed tests
3038 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
3039 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
3041 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
3042 ========================
3044 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
3045 detailed release notes this time!
3047 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
3048 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
3050 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
3051 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
3052 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
3053 notmuch in subsequent releases.
3060 Better guessing of From: header
3062 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
3063 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
3064 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
3065 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
3066 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
3069 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
3071 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
3072 guaranteed to match all messages.
3074 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
3076 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
3077 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
3078 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
3079 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
3080 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
3083 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
3086 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
3087 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
3088 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
3089 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
3094 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
3096 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
3097 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
3098 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
3099 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
3101 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
3103 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
3105 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
3106 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
3107 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
3109 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
3111 Previously, the user might see:
3113 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
3117 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
3119 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
3120 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
3121 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
3122 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
3124 Emacs client features
3125 ---------------------
3127 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
3129 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
3130 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
3131 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
3132 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
3133 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
3135 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
3138 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
3139 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
3140 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
3141 search with the '*' binding.
3143 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
3145 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
3146 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
3149 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
3151 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
3152 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
3153 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
3155 Build-system features
3156 ---------------------
3158 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
3160 Add support to configure for many standard options
3162 We include actual support for:
3164 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
3166 And accept and silently ignore several more:
3168 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
3169 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
3171 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
3172 separate "make install-emacs"
3174 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
3176 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
3177 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
3178 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3180 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3183 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3184 ========================
3186 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3188 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3189 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3191 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3192 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3193 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3194 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3195 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3196 tags from messages in a thread.
3203 indent-tabs-mode: nil