1 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
2 =========================
7 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
9 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
10 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
11 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
13 Path to gpg is now configurable
15 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
16 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
21 Avoid rendering large text attachements.
23 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
28 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
33 Support messages without Message-IDs.
38 Undeprecate single message mboxes
40 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
41 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
43 New error logging facility
45 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
46 output formerly printed to stderr.
48 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
50 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
52 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
54 Fix for rounding of seconds
59 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
61 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
62 docmumentation has been removed.
64 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
66 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
67 some material from the relicensed wiki.
72 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
73 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
74 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
79 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
80 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
81 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
82 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
83 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
84 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
87 git checkout config origin/config
89 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
91 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
92 =========================
97 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
98 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
99 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
100 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
101 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
102 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
103 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
105 Command-Line Interface
106 ----------------------
108 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
110 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
111 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
112 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
113 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
114 script callers should still check the return value.
116 `notmuch insert` requires succesful message indexing for success status
118 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
119 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
120 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
121 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
122 succesful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
123 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
124 and returning success even if indexing fails).
126 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
128 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
129 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
130 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
132 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
134 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
135 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
136 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
137 currently unmaintained.
139 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
141 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
142 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
143 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
144 have at least `N` files associated with them.
146 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
148 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
149 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
150 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
151 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
152 count of duplicate addresses.
157 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
159 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
160 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
161 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
164 Improved handling of the unread tag
166 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
167 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
168 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
169 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
170 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
171 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
172 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
174 Expanded default saved search settings
176 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
177 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
179 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
181 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
182 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
183 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
185 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
187 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
188 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
189 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
190 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
191 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
192 the variable for details.
197 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
199 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
200 Representing these independently of the database version number will
201 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
202 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
204 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
206 Previously, library users were required to call
207 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
208 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
209 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
210 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
211 too out of date for that API.
213 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
215 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
216 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
217 atomic section will be aborted.
219 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
220 `notmuch_database_destroy`
222 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
224 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
225 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
226 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
227 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
228 messages into the same thread.
233 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
234 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
235 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
236 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
237 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
238 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
243 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
244 from the config file. Use something like:
248 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
249 "footer": "</body></html>",
258 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
263 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
264 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
265 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
267 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
268 ===========================
273 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
275 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
277 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
279 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
280 structure for signatures changed slightly.
282 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
284 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
287 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
288 ===========================
290 This is a bug fix and portability release.
295 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
297 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
299 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
301 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
303 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
309 Use --quick when starting emacs
311 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
313 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
315 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
317 Command-Line Interface
318 ----------------------
320 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
321 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
326 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
328 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
329 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
331 Fix for phrase indexing
333 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
334 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
335 will affect only newly indexed messages.
340 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
342 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
343 unintentionally removed.
345 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
346 =========================
351 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
352 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
353 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
354 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
355 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
356 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
357 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
358 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
359 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
365 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
367 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
368 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
369 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
370 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
371 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
372 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
373 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
374 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
376 There is a new `path:` search prefix
378 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
379 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
380 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
381 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
384 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
386 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
387 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
388 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
389 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
390 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
391 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
392 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
397 Notmuch database upgrade
399 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
400 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
401 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
402 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
403 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
404 released version of Notmuch before now.
406 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
408 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
409 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
410 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
411 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
413 Message header parsing changes
415 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
416 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
417 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
418 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
419 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
420 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
422 Command-Line Interface
423 ----------------------
425 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
427 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
429 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
431 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
433 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
435 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
436 user does not want it.
438 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
440 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
441 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable expections are
442 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
443 support formatted output.
445 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
447 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
448 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
449 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
457 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
458 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
459 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
460 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
461 `~/.emacs` with these.
463 Changed format for saved searches
465 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
466 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
467 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
468 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
471 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
472 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
473 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
474 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
476 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
477 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
478 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
480 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
481 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
482 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
483 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
484 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
486 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
488 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
489 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
490 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
492 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
494 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
495 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
496 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
497 message had been unread).
499 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
500 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
501 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
502 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
504 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
505 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
506 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
508 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
509 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
510 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
511 to tags already present.
515 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
516 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
517 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
518 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
519 these differ from each other.
520 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
522 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
524 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
525 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
526 for these Emacs versions.
528 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
530 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
531 newlines before calling notmuch count.
533 Bug fixes for sender identities
535 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
536 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
537 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
539 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
541 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
542 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
543 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
544 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
546 Reply pushes mark before signature
548 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
549 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
550 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
552 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
554 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
555 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
561 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
562 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
564 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
565 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
566 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
567 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
569 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
570 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
571 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
572 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
573 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
575 nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git
577 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
578 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
580 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
581 =========================
583 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
584 ---------------------------------------
586 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
587 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
588 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
589 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
590 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
591 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
592 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
596 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
597 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
599 Command-Line Interface
600 ----------------------
602 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
604 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
605 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
606 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
607 print for each message.
609 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
610 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
611 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
612 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
614 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
616 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
617 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
618 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
620 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
622 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
623 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
624 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
625 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
627 `notmuch compact` command
629 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
630 functionality through a more convenient interface than
631 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
632 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
633 move the compacted database into place.
638 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
640 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
641 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
642 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
643 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
644 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
645 and multiple threads.
649 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
651 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
652 search, show and tree mode itself)
654 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
657 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
658 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
660 Customising `notmuch-tree`
662 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
663 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
664 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
665 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
666 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
667 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
668 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
670 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
672 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
673 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
674 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
675 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
676 thread when the search was performed.
678 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
680 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
681 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
682 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
684 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
686 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
687 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
690 Built-in help improvements
692 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
693 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
694 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
696 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
698 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
699 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
700 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
702 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
704 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
705 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
707 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
709 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
710 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
711 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
712 to move some of them to the common keymap.
714 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
716 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
717 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
718 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
719 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
721 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
723 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
724 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
725 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
727 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
729 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
730 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
731 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
733 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
735 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
736 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
737 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
738 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
739 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
741 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
743 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
744 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
745 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
746 the body part of the message.
751 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
752 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
753 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
755 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
756 =========================
758 Command-Line Interface
759 ----------------------
761 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
763 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
764 folder and notmuch index.
766 `notmuch count --batch` option
768 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
769 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
771 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
773 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
774 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
775 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
778 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
780 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
781 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
782 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
783 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
784 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
787 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
789 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
790 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
792 Top level option to specify configuration file
794 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
795 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
797 Bash command-line completion
799 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
800 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
801 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
802 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
803 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
804 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
805 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
806 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
807 bash-completion package.
809 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
814 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
816 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
817 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
818 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
819 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
820 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
821 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
822 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
823 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
825 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
827 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
828 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
829 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
831 Key bindings for next/previous thread
833 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
834 previous thread in the search results.
836 Better handling of errors in search buffers
838 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
839 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
841 Faster search and show
843 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
844 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
845 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
846 threads should show faster.
850 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
851 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
852 in question was now removed from this release.
857 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
858 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
863 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
865 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
866 ===========================
871 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
873 Internal test framework changes
874 -------------------------------
876 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
879 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
880 ===========================
882 Internal test framework changes
883 -------------------------------
885 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
886 build failures in non-interactive environments.
888 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
889 =========================
894 Date range search support
896 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
897 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
898 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
899 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
900 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
903 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
905 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
906 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
907 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
908 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
909 but may be removed in a future release.
911 Command-Line Interface
912 ----------------------
914 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
916 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
917 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
919 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
921 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
922 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
923 officially deprecated.
925 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
927 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
928 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
929 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
931 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
933 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
934 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
937 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
938 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
941 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
943 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
944 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
945 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
947 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
949 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
950 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
951 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
953 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
955 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
956 output separated by null characters rather than newline
957 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
958 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
963 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
965 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
966 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
967 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
968 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
970 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
972 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
973 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
974 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
975 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
976 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
977 the behavior of this, see
978 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
979 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
981 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
982 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
983 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
985 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
987 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
988 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
991 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
993 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
994 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
995 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
996 simply displayed in place of the message.
998 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
1000 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
1001 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
1003 Improved text/calendar content handling
1005 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
1006 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
1007 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
1008 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
1010 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
1012 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
1013 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
1014 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
1015 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
1017 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
1019 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
1020 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
1021 for HTML email containing images.
1023 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
1025 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
1027 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
1029 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
1032 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
1034 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
1035 the point where it was.
1037 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
1039 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
1040 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
1041 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
1042 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
1043 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
1045 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
1047 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
1048 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
1049 thread instead of the message id.
1051 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
1052 -----------------------------
1054 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
1055 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
1056 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
1057 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
1058 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
1059 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
1060 further details and installation.
1065 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
1067 Internal test framework changes
1068 -------------------------------
1070 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
1072 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
1073 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
1074 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
1075 can result in buggy behavior.
1077 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
1078 =========================
1083 Maildir tag synchronization
1085 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
1086 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
1087 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
1088 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
1089 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
1090 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
1093 Command-Line Interface
1094 ----------------------
1096 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
1097 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
1098 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
1099 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
1100 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
1106 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
1108 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
1110 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
1111 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
1112 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
1114 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
1116 It is now possible to embed newlines in
1117 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
1118 span multiple lines.
1120 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
1122 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
1123 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
1124 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
1125 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
1126 inside the result or message.
1128 Search now uses the JSON format internally
1130 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
1131 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
1133 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
1134 user-specified formatting
1136 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
1137 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
1138 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
1139 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
1140 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
1142 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
1143 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
1145 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
1146 ===========================
1151 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
1152 compilation error for this contrib package.
1154 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
1155 ===========================
1160 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
1162 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
1163 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
1164 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
1165 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
1167 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
1168 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
1171 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
1172 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
1173 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
1174 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
1177 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
1179 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
1182 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
1183 =========================
1185 Command-Line Interface
1186 ----------------------
1190 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
1191 for a reply message and full information about the original message
1192 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
1193 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
1195 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
1196 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
1197 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
1198 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
1202 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
1203 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
1205 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
1206 tag in your query, for example:
1208 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
1210 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
1211 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
1213 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
1214 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
1216 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
1218 Raw show format changes
1220 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
1221 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
1222 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
1223 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
1224 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
1225 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
1226 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
1227 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
1229 Listing configuration items
1231 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
1237 Changes to tagging interface
1239 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
1240 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
1241 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
1242 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
1243 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
1244 for more information.
1246 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
1247 may need to update in custom configurations.
1249 Reply improvement using the JSON format
1251 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
1252 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
1253 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
1254 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
1257 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
1258 -----------------------------
1260 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
1261 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
1262 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
1263 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
1264 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
1265 contrib/ from now on.
1270 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
1271 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
1273 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
1274 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
1276 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
1277 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
1278 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
1280 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
1281 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
1283 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
1284 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
1285 returning the new database object or directory object.
1292 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
1293 compatible with go 1.
1295 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
1296 =========================
1298 Command-Line Interface
1299 ----------------------
1303 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
1304 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
1305 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
1306 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
1308 Mail store folder/file ignore
1310 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
1311 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
1312 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
1314 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
1315 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
1317 Unified help and manual pages
1319 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
1320 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
1323 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
1325 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
1326 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
1334 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
1335 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
1336 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
1337 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
1339 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
1341 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
1342 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
1344 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
1347 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
1348 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
1349 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
1351 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
1353 should be changed to:
1355 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
1357 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
1359 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
1360 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
1362 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
1364 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
1365 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
1366 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
1367 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
1368 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
1369 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
1373 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
1374 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
1375 of Mailing List Archives.
1377 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
1379 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
1380 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
1383 Show view archiving key binding changes
1385 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
1386 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
1387 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
1388 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
1389 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
1392 Support text/calendar MIME type
1394 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
1397 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
1399 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
1400 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
1401 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
1402 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
1404 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
1406 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
1407 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
1408 messages blue by default in the search view.
1412 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
1413 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
1420 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
1423 Python bindings changes
1424 -----------------------
1426 Python 3.2 compatibility
1428 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
1430 Added missing unicode conversions
1432 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
1433 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
1434 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
1439 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
1441 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
1442 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
1443 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
1444 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
1445 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
1447 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
1448 ===========================
1453 Fix error handling in python bindings
1455 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
1456 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
1457 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
1458 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
1460 Quote MML tags in replies
1462 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
1463 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
1464 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
1465 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
1466 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
1467 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
1468 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
1469 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
1471 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
1472 =========================
1474 Command-Line Interface
1475 ----------------------
1479 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
1480 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
1481 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
1482 importing new messages into the database.
1484 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
1486 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
1487 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
1488 sometimes. This is now fixed.
1493 Automatic tag query optimization
1495 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
1496 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
1497 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
1499 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
1501 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
1502 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
1503 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
1508 Reduction of memory leaks
1510 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
1511 and fixed in this release.
1518 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
1519 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
1520 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
1523 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1525 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
1526 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
1527 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
1530 Improvements in saved search management
1532 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
1533 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
1534 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
1536 Hooks for notmuch-hello
1538 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
1539 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
1540 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
1542 New face for crypto parts headers
1544 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
1545 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
1546 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
1549 Use space as default thousands separator
1551 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
1552 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
1553 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
1555 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
1556 buttonized id: links
1558 New function notmuch-show-advance
1560 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
1561 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
1562 be bound to SPC with:
1564 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
1566 Various performance improvements
1571 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
1572 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
1575 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
1576 ===========================
1581 Fix crash in python bindings
1583 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
1584 for some, but not all users.
1586 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
1587 ===========================
1592 Fix `--help` argument
1594 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
1595 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
1596 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
1598 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
1599 =========================
1601 New build and testing features
1602 ------------------------------
1604 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
1605 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
1606 prerequisites is improved.
1608 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
1610 New command-line features
1611 -------------------------
1613 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
1615 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
1616 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
1619 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
1621 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
1622 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
1623 favour of using stdout.
1625 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
1627 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
1628 limit the number of results shown.
1630 Add `notmuch count --output` option
1632 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
1633 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
1636 New emacs UI features
1637 ---------------------
1639 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
1641 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
1642 starting with "tag:".
1644 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
1646 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
1647 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
1649 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
1651 Reduces manual labour when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
1653 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
1655 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
1656 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
1661 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
1663 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
1665 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
1666 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
1667 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
1668 requires a database rebuild:
1670 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1671 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1673 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1675 New collection of add-on tools
1676 ------------------------------
1678 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
1679 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
1680 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
1683 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
1685 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
1686 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
1687 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
1689 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
1690 ========================
1692 New, general features
1693 ---------------------
1695 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
1697 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
1698 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
1699 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
1700 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
1701 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
1708 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
1709 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
1711 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
1715 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
1716 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
1717 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
1720 Python bindings changes
1721 -----------------------
1723 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
1725 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
1726 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
1727 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
1728 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
1729 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
1730 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1732 Ruby bindings changes
1733 ---------------------
1735 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
1736 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
1737 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
1738 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
1743 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
1745 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
1746 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
1748 Reply formatting cleanup
1749 ------------------------
1751 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
1752 MIME parts are being suppressed.
1754 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
1755 ========================
1757 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
1759 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
1760 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
1761 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
1762 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
1765 Improved Build system portability
1767 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
1768 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
1769 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
1771 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
1773 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
1775 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
1777 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
1778 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
1779 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
1781 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
1782 ========================
1784 Vim interface improvements
1785 --------------------------
1787 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
1789 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
1790 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
1791 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
1792 * fix from list reformatting in search view
1793 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
1795 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
1797 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
1798 * fix compose temp file name
1800 Python Bindings changes
1801 -----------------------
1803 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
1805 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
1806 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
1808 Build-System improvements
1809 -------------------------
1811 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
1813 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
1816 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
1817 ==========================
1822 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
1824 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
1825 people running gcc 4.4.5.
1827 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
1828 =======================
1830 New, general features
1831 ---------------------
1833 Folder-based searching
1835 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
1836 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
1837 storage). The syntax is as follows:
1841 For example, one might use things such as:
1847 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
1848 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
1850 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
1851 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
1852 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
1853 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
1855 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1856 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
1857 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
1860 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
1861 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
1863 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
1865 Support for PGP/MIME
1867 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
1868 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
1869 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
1871 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
1873 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
1874 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
1876 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
1877 notmuch will receive these tags.
1879 New command-line features
1880 -------------------------
1882 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
1884 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
1885 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
1887 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
1889 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
1890 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
1891 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
1893 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
1895 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
1896 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
1897 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
1898 which parts a signature part applies).
1900 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
1902 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
1903 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
1904 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
1905 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
1906 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
1909 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
1911 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
1912 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
1913 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
1914 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
1915 by translating it internally to the new call.
1917 Performance improvements
1918 ------------------------
1920 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
1922 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
1923 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
1924 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
1926 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
1927 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
1929 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
1931 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
1932 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
1933 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
1935 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
1936 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
1937 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
1938 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
1940 Faster initial indexing
1942 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
1943 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
1944 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
1946 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
1948 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
1949 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
1950 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
1951 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
1953 New emacs-interface features
1954 ----------------------------
1956 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
1958 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
1959 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
1960 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
1961 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
1962 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
1963 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
1965 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
1967 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
1968 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
1969 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
1970 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
1972 User-selectable From address
1974 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
1975 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
1976 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
1977 will prompt for the from address to use.
1979 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
1980 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
1981 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
1983 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
1984 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
1985 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
1988 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
1990 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
1991 its parent, the subject is not shown.
1993 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
1995 When a message contains a line looking something like:
1997 ----- Original Message -----
1999 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
2000 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
2001 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
2002 citations work much like conventional citations.
2004 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
2006 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
2007 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
2008 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
2009 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
2010 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
2012 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
2013 Notmuch After Tag Hook
2015 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
2017 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
2018 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
2019 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
2021 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
2023 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
2024 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
2025 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
2026 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
2027 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
2029 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
2031 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
2034 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
2036 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
2038 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
2040 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
2043 Vim interface improvements
2044 --------------------------
2046 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
2048 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
2049 * Implementing archive in show view
2050 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
2051 * Add delete commands
2054 Bindings improvements
2055 ---------------------
2057 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
2059 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
2060 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
2062 Python bindings have been updated and extended
2064 (docs online at http://packages.python.org/notmuch/)
2068 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
2069 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
2070 `list(Messages)` works now
2071 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
2073 These allow, for example:
2075 if msg1 == msg2: ...
2077 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
2079 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
2085 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
2087 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
2090 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
2092 New build-system features
2093 -------------------------
2095 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
2097 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
2098 the configure script from some other directory:
2105 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
2107 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
2108 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
2109 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
2110 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
2111 manual invocation of configure.
2113 New test-suite feature
2114 ----------------------
2116 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
2118 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
2119 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
2120 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
2121 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
2122 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
2125 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
2127 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
2128 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
2129 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
2130 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
2131 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
2132 are updated to take advantage of this.
2134 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
2136 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
2137 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
2138 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
2139 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
2145 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
2147 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
2148 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
2149 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
2151 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
2153 This fixed a bug where a search for:
2155 to:user@elsewhere.com
2157 would incorrectly match a message sent:
2159 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
2161 Fix --output=json when search has no results
2163 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
2164 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
2165 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
2168 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
2169 from the Received headers in some cases
2171 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
2172 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
2174 Cleaned up several memory leaks
2176 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
2178 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
2180 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
2181 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
2182 interface and were never intended to be exported.
2184 Emacs-interface bug fixes
2185 -------------------------
2187 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
2189 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
2190 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
2191 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
2193 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
2195 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
2196 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
2197 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
2200 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
2202 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
2203 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
2204 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
2205 fixed to avoid this bug.
2207 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
2209 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
2210 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
2212 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
2213 ========================
2215 New, general features
2216 ---------------------
2218 Maildir-flag synchronization
2220 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
2221 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
2230 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
2232 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
2233 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
2234 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
2235 renamed with an 'R' flag).
2237 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
2238 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
2239 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
2240 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
2243 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
2245 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
2246 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
2247 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
2249 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
2250 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
2252 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
2253 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
2255 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
2256 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
2257 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
2259 New library features
2260 --------------------
2262 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
2264 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
2265 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
2266 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
2267 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
2269 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
2270 message with the new function:
2272 notmuch_message_get_filenames
2274 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
2275 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
2276 over all available filenames for a given message.
2278 New command-line features
2279 -------------------------
2281 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
2283 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
2284 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
2285 access to the mail store itself.
2287 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
2288 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
2289 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
2290 name of a script containing:
2292 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
2294 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
2295 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
2301 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
2303 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
2305 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
2307 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
2308 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
2309 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
2310 now produces nothing).
2312 Emacs interface improvements
2313 ----------------------------
2315 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
2317 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
2319 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
2321 Display current thread subject in a header line
2323 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
2325 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
2327 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
2328 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
2329 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
2330 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
2331 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
2332 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
2333 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
2335 Vim interface improvements
2336 --------------------------
2338 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
2340 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
2341 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
2347 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
2349 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
2350 ========================
2352 New command-line features
2353 -------------------------
2355 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
2357 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
2358 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
2359 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
2361 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
2362 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
2363 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
2364 scripts. For example:
2366 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
2367 <operations-on> "$file"
2370 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
2372 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
2373 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
2374 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
2375 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
2376 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
2377 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
2379 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
2381 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
2382 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
2383 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
2384 custom items stored in the configuration file.
2386 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
2388 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
2389 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
2390 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
2391 default rather than Bcc.
2393 New library features
2394 --------------------
2396 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
2398 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
2399 `notmuch_query_t` object.
2404 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
2406 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
2407 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
2408 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
2409 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
2410 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
2411 notmuch customize interface.
2413 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
2415 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
2416 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
2417 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
2418 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
2420 Optional support for detecting inline patches
2422 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
2423 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
2424 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
2425 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
2427 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
2429 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
2430 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
2431 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
2432 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
2433 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
2434 notmuch customize interface.
2436 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
2438 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
2439 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
2440 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
2441 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
2442 notmuch customize interface.
2444 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
2446 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
2447 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
2448 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
2449 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
2452 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
2454 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
2455 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
2456 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
2459 New build-system features
2460 -------------------------
2462 Various portability fixes have been applied
2464 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
2465 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
2466 more portable than ever before.
2468 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
2470 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
2471 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
2472 after installing. This support takes two forms:
2474 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
2475 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
2476 automatically run ldconfig.
2478 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
2479 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
2480 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
2482 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
2483 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
2484 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
2485 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
2487 Check compiler/linker options before using them
2489 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
2490 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
2491 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
2492 used in the resulting Makefile.
2494 New test-suite features
2495 -----------------------
2497 New modularization of test suite
2499 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
2500 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
2501 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
2502 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
2503 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
2504 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
2505 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
2506 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
2508 New testing of emacs interface
2510 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
2511 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
2512 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
2513 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
2514 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
2515 database via the FCC setting.
2520 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
2522 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
2523 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
2524 persistent error of the form:
2526 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
2528 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
2529 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
2531 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
2533 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
2534 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
2535 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
2537 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
2539 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
2540 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
2541 parsing the notmuch results).
2543 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
2545 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
2548 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
2549 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
2550 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
2555 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
2557 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
2558 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
2559 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
2560 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
2561 the emacs interface.
2563 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
2565 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
2566 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
2567 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
2569 Python-binding fixes
2570 --------------------
2572 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
2574 Debian-specific fixes
2575 ---------------------
2577 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
2579 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
2580 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
2581 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
2584 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
2585 ==========================
2590 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
2592 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
2593 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
2594 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
2595 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
2597 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
2599 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
2600 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
2601 want notmuch to crash.
2606 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
2608 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
2609 directory does not exist
2614 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
2616 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
2617 final linking of notmuch would fail.
2619 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
2620 ========================
2622 New command-line features
2623 -------------------------
2625 User-configurable tags for new messages
2627 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
2628 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
2629 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
2630 to specify this value.
2632 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
2634 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
2635 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
2636 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
2638 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
2640 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
2641 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
2643 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
2645 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
2646 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
2647 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
2648 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
2649 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
2652 Indication of author names that match a search
2654 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
2655 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
2656 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
2657 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
2658 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
2659 messages in the thread are listed first.
2661 New: Python bindings
2662 --------------------
2664 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
2665 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
2666 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
2667 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
2669 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
2670 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
2671 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
2674 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
2675 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
2676 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
2678 Emacs interface improvements
2679 ----------------------------
2681 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
2683 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
2684 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
2685 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
2686 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
2687 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
2688 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
2689 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
2690 but without any of the disadvantages).
2692 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
2693 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
2694 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
2697 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
2698 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
2699 instead running something like:
2701 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
2703 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
2704 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
2705 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
2708 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
2710 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
2711 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
2712 tweaked by the user.
2714 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
2715 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
2716 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
2719 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
2720 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
2721 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
2724 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
2726 This support currently relies on an external program,
2727 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
2728 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
2729 already been written that generate address completions by doing
2730 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
2731 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
2734 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
2735 notmuch) is available via:
2737 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
2739 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
2740 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
2741 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
2743 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
2745 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
2746 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
2747 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
2748 making this automatic in a future release.
2750 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
2752 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
2753 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
2754 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
2755 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
2756 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
2757 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
2760 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
2762 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
2763 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
2764 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
2766 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
2768 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
2769 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
2770 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
2772 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
2773 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
2774 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
2775 other representation.
2777 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
2778 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
2781 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
2783 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
2784 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
2785 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
2787 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
2788 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
2789 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
2791 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
2793 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
2794 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
2795 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
2796 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
2797 to display the search result.
2799 More flexible handling of header visibility
2801 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
2802 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
2803 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
2804 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
2805 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
2806 with the 'h' keybinding.
2808 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
2809 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
2810 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
2812 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
2814 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
2816 Customizable formatting of search results
2818 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
2819 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
2820 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
2822 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
2824 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
2826 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
2831 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
2833 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
2834 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
2835 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
2836 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
2842 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
2844 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
2845 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
2847 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
2849 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
2850 accept are now all accepted.
2855 A large number of new tests for the many new features
2857 Better display of output from failed tests
2859 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
2860 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
2862 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
2863 ========================
2865 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
2866 detailed release notes this time!
2868 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
2869 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
2871 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
2872 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
2873 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
2874 notmuch in subsequent releases.
2881 Better guessing of From: header
2883 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
2884 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
2885 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
2886 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
2887 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
2890 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
2892 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
2893 guaranteed to match all messages.
2895 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
2897 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
2898 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
2899 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
2900 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
2901 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
2904 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
2907 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
2908 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
2909 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
2910 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
2915 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
2917 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
2918 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
2919 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
2920 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
2922 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
2924 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
2926 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
2927 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
2928 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
2930 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
2932 Previously, the user might see:
2934 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
2938 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
2940 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
2941 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
2942 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
2943 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
2945 Emacs client features
2946 ---------------------
2948 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
2950 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
2951 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
2952 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
2953 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
2954 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
2956 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
2959 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
2960 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
2961 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
2962 search with the '*' binding.
2964 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
2966 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
2967 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
2970 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
2972 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
2973 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
2974 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
2976 Build-system features
2977 ---------------------
2979 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
2981 Add support to configure for many standard options
2983 We include actual support for:
2985 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
2987 And accept and silently ignore several more:
2989 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
2990 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
2992 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
2993 separate "make install-emacs"
2995 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
2997 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
2998 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
2999 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
3001 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
3004 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
3005 ========================
3007 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
3009 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
3010 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
3012 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
3013 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
3014 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
3015 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
3016 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
3017 tags from messages in a thread.
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