1 Notmuch 0.38 (UNRELEASED)
2 =========================
4 Notmuch 0.37 (2022-08-21)
5 =========================
10 Fix uninitialized field in message objects.
12 Improve exception handling and error propagation for message objects.
17 Add one sided lastmod ranges for sexp queries.
19 Expand macro parameters inside regex and wildcard modifiers.
21 Command Line Interface
22 ----------------------
24 `notmuch help` now works for external commands.
26 `NOTMUCH_CONFIG` is now passed to external commands and hooks.
28 Promote the development tool `nmbug` to a user facing tool
29 `notmuch-git`. See notmuch-git(1) for details.
34 The function `notmuch-mua-mail` now moves point depending on the
37 Restrict what mime types are inlined in replies and on refresh.
39 The functions in notmuch-query.el are now obsolete and may be removed
40 in a future version of Notmuch.
42 Add some controls for lazy display of message bodies (See "Dealing
43 with large messages and threads" in the notmuch-emacs documentation).
45 Allow the user to select (with '%') a different duplicate message file
48 Use `message-dont-reply-to-names` in `notmuch-message-mode`.
50 Support custom header-line format for notmuch-show mode.
52 Notmuch 0.36 (2022-04-25)
53 =========================
58 Add the `sexp` prefix to the infix (traditional) query parser. This
59 allows specific subqueries to be parsed by the sexp parser (with
60 appropropriate quoting). See `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
62 Add another heuristic to regexp fields to prevent phrase parsing of
63 bracketed sub-expressions.
65 Command Line Interface
66 ----------------------
68 Envelope from ("From ") headers are now escaped as X-Envelope-From: in
69 input to `notmuch-insert`. This prevents creating mbox files when
70 calling `notmuch-insert` from e.g. `postfix`.
72 Python (CFFI) Bindings
73 ----------------------
75 Use the `config_pairs` API in ConfigIterator. This returns all
76 matching key-value pairs, not just those that happen to be stored in
82 Reorganize documention for `notmuch-config`. Add a few links from
88 Bind the usual undo key sequences to new command
89 "notmuch-tag-undo". This allows transparent undo of tagging
95 Fix smime.4 with newer gmime. Unset `XDG_DATA_HOME` and `MAILDIR` for tests.
97 New add-on tool: notmuch-web
98 -----------------------------
100 The new devel/ tool `notmuch-web` is a very thin web client. It
101 supports a full search interface for one user: there is no facility
102 for multiple users provided today. See the notmuch-web README file
103 for more information.
105 Be careful about running it on a network-connected system: it will
106 expose a web interface that requires no authentication but exposes
109 Notmuch 0.35 (2022-02-06)
110 =========================
115 Implement the `date` and `lastmod` fields in the S-expression parser.
117 Ignore trailing `/` for pathnames in both query parsers.
119 Rename configuration option `built_with.sexpr_query` to
120 `built_with.sexp_queries`.
122 Do not assume a default mail root in split (e.g. XDG) configurations.
124 Fix some small memory leaks in `notmuch_database_open_with_config`.
129 Improve handling of leading/trailing punctation and space for
132 Only ignore `.notmuch` at the top level in `notmuch new`.
134 Optionally show extra headers in `notmuch show`. See
135 `show.extra_headers` in notmuch-config(1).
140 Drop `C-TAB` binding in hello mode, document `backtab`.
142 Fix visual glitch in search mode by running `notmuch-search-hook`
145 Don't add space to completion candidates, improves compatibility with
146 third party completion frameworks.
148 Make citation formating more robust against whitespace.
150 Use `--excludes=false` when generating the 'All tags' section.
152 Use cached copy of message body for `Fcc`, avoiding variant bodies for
153 signed and/or encrypted messages.
155 Add notmuch-logo.svg and use it in notmuch-hello view, replacing
158 Make header line in show buffers optional.
160 Add customizable names for search buffers.
165 Fix out-of-tree build for `python-cffi` bindings.
167 Rearrange position of {C,CXX,CPP,LD}FLAGS, prevent some clashes with
168 installed version of notmuch.
170 Ignore more configure options.
175 Replace some uses of `gdb` in the test suite with `LD_PRELOAD` based
178 Use `--with-colons` for gpgsm, fix compatibility with newer gnupg.
183 Add `matched` property to message objects.
185 Users are reminded that the old python bindings in bindings/python are
186 deprecated; this will probably be the last major release that ships
192 Use `database.mail_root` for path completion in bash/zsh.
194 Notmuch 0.34.3 (2022-01-09)
195 ===========================
200 Do not crash when presented with a .notmuch directory without a
201 xapian/ subdirectory.
203 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
204 --------------------------
206 Database constructor now searches for configuration by default. Pass
207 `config=Database.CONFIG.EMPTY` to disable.
209 The `Message.replies()` method now returns OwnedMessage objects, to
210 prevent certain memory de-allocation errors.
212 Fix for importing `notmuch2` module when building bindings
215 Notmuch 0.34.2 (2021-12-09)
216 ===========================
221 Fix a bug that wrongly resolved conflict between the `database_path`
222 parameter to `notmuch_database_open_with_config` and configuration
223 item `database.path` in favour of the latter.
225 Python Bindings (notmuch2)
226 --------------------------
228 When building the documentation for the `notmuch2` python module,
229 import from the built module, not a system wide installed one.
231 The notmuch2.Database constructor now uses the library function
232 `notmuch_database_open_with_config` to support the same configuration
233 and database location options as the library does.
235 Fix some unprintable exception objects.
237 Notmuch 0.34.1 (2021-11-03)
238 ===========================
243 Fix for deallocation and nulling of output parameter for
244 notmuch_database_{open_with,create_with,load}_config when errors
245 occur. This change fixes a potential use-after-free bug that has been
246 present since 0.32. This release also improves the documentation of
247 status returns for the same 3 functions.
249 Notmuch 0.34 (2021-10-20)
250 =========================
255 An optional new s-expression based query parser is available if
256 notmuch is built with the `sfsexp` library. See
257 notmuch-sexp-queries(7) for syntax, and use `notmuch config get
258 built_with.sexpr_query` to check if notmuch is compiled with
259 s-expression query support.
264 Support multiple `Delivered-To` headers in notmuch-reply(1).
269 Functions are now allowed in `notmuch-search-result-format`.
271 Improvements to unthreaded view on large threads.
273 Tolerate bad/missing working directory for most commands.
275 Allow customization of tree drawing symbols in notmuch-tree mode.
277 Notmuch 0.33.2 (2021-09-30)
278 ===========================
283 Improve reliability of T355-smime by changing gpgsm initialization.
285 Notmuch 0.33.1 (2021-09-10)
286 ===========================
291 Replace the fully-qualified-domain-name of the host with "localhost"
292 in the default email address. This should fix two flaky subtests in
295 Notmuch 0.33 (2021-09-03)
296 =========================
301 Correct documentation about transactions.
303 Add a configurable automatic commit of transactions. See
304 `database.autocommit` in notmuch-config(1).
306 Document the algorithm used to find a database.
311 Define format version 5, which supports sorting the output of
317 `notmuch` no longer sets `mail-user-agent` on load. To restore the
318 previous behaviour of using notmuch to send mail by default, customize
319 `mail-user-agent` to `notmuch-user-agent`.
321 `notmuch-company` now works in `org-msg`.
323 Improve the display of messages from long threads in unthreaded mode.
325 Prefer email addresses over User ID when showing valid signatures.
327 Define a new face `notmuch-jump-key`.
329 New commands in notmuch-tree view: `notmuch-tree-filter` and `notmuch-tree-filter-by-tag`.
331 Honour `notmuch-show-text/html-blocked-images` when using `w3m` to
334 Support toggling sort order in notmuch-tree mode.
339 Memory management of allocated notmuch objects (database, messages,
340 etc...) is now done via the Ruby GC. This removes all constraints on
341 the order of object destruction. Database close and destroy are
342 split, following an old library API change.
347 Respect excluded tags when showing a thread.
352 Fix doc build for Sphinx 4.0.
354 Improve the markup and linking of the documentation.
356 Notmuch 0.32.3 (2021-08-17)
357 ===========================
362 Restore location of database via `MAILDIR` environment variable, which
365 Bump libnotmuch minor version to match the documentation in
368 Correct documentation for deprecated database opening functions to
369 point out that they (still) do not load configuration information.
374 Restore "notmuch config get built_with.*", which was broken in 0.32.
376 Notmuch 0.32.2 (2021-06-27)
377 ===========================
382 Fix a bug from 2017 that can add duplicate thread-id terms to message
388 Fix small memory leak in notmuch new.
393 Add `(require 'seq)` for `seq-some`.
398 Fix man page build for Sphinx 4.x. Fix variable name in emacs docs.
403 Fix backup creation in `perf-test/T00-new`. Check openssl
404 prerequisite in `add_gpgsm_home`.
406 Notmuch 0.32.1 (2021-05-15)
407 ===========================
412 Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
413 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
414 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
416 Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
417 notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
418 database in a pre-new hook.
420 Fix default of `$HOME/mail` for `database.path`. In release 0.32, this
421 default worked only in "notmuch config".
426 Restore the dynamically bound variables `tag-changes` and `query` in
427 in `notmuch-before-tag-hook` and `notmuch-after-tag-hook`.
429 Add `notmuch-jump-key` face to fontify keys in `notmuch-jump` and
430 related functions. To ensure backward compatibility, the new face
431 inherits from `minibuffer-prompt`.
433 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
434 =========================
439 This release includes a significant overhaul of the configuration
440 management facilities for notmuch. The previous distinction between
441 configuration items that can be modified via plain text configuration
442 files and those that must be set in the database via the "notmuch
443 config" subcommand is gone, and all configuration items can be set in
444 both ways. The external configuration file overrides configuration
445 items in the database. The location of database, hooks, and
446 configuration files is now more flexible, with several new
447 configuration variables. In particular XDG locations are now supported
448 as fallbacks for database, configuration and hooks. For more
449 information see `notmuch-config(1)`.
454 To support the new configuration facilities, several functions and
455 constants have been added to the notmuch API. Most notably:
457 - `notmuch_database_create_with_config`
458 - `notmuch_database_open_with_config`
459 - `notmuch_database_load_config`
460 - `notmuch_config_get`
462 A previously requested API change is that `notmuch_database_reopen` is
463 now exposed (and generalized).
465 The previously severe slowdowns from large numbers calls to
466 notmuch_database_remove_message or notmuch_message_delete in one
467 session has been fixed.
469 As always, the canonical source of API documentation is
470 `lib/notmuch.h`, or the doxygen formatted documentation in `notmuch(3)`.
475 The `notmuch config set` subcommand gained a `--database` argument to
476 specify that the database should be updated, rather than a config file.
478 The speed of `notmuch new` and `notmuch reindex` in dealing with large
479 numbers of mail file deletions is significantly improved.
484 Completion related updates include: de-duplicating tags offered for
485 completion, use the actual initial input in address completion, allow
486 users to opt out of notmuch address completion, and do not force Ido
487 when prompting for senders.
489 Some keymaps used to contain bindings for unnamed commands. These
490 lambda expressions have been replaced by named commands (symbols), to
493 Lexical binding is now used in all notmuch-emacs libraries.
495 Fix bug in calling `notmuch-mua-mail` with a non-nil RETURN-ACTION.
497 Removed, inlined or renamed functions and variables:
498 `notmuch-address-locate-command`,
499 `notmuch-documentation-first-line`, `notmuch-folder`,
500 `notmuch-hello-trim', `notmuch-hello-versions` => `notmuch-version`,
501 `notmuch-remove-if-not`, `notmuch-search-disjunctive-regexp`,
502 `notmuch-sexp-eof`, `notmuch-split-content-type`, and
503 `notmuch-tree-button-activate`.
505 Keymaps are no longer fset, which means they need to be referred to in
506 define-key directly (without quotes). If your Emacs configuration has a
508 (define-key 'notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
509 you should change it to:
510 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map "7" 'foo)
512 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
513 ===========================
518 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
523 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
525 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
526 ===========================
531 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
536 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding.
541 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
543 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
544 ===========================
549 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
550 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
552 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
553 ===========================
558 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
563 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
564 with a C++ header for some compilers.
566 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
568 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
569 =========================
574 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
575 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
576 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
578 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
580 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
582 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
584 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
587 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
589 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
590 search, show and tree mode)
592 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
595 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
598 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
599 always be newest first.
604 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
605 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
606 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
612 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
613 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
614 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
615 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
617 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
618 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
619 non-status providing versions.
621 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
622 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
624 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
625 promised in the documentation.
630 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
631 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
632 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
637 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
638 development version).
643 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
648 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
650 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
651 =========================
656 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
657 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
658 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
661 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
667 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
668 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
669 notmuch-properties(7)).
674 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
675 has protected headers (see
676 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
677 notmuch-properties(7)).
682 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
684 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
685 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
691 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
694 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
695 ===========================
700 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
702 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
707 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
709 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
710 ===========================
715 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
716 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
718 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
719 ===========================
724 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
726 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
727 =========================
732 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
733 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
736 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
737 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
738 the set of headers to be indexed.
740 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
743 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
744 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
745 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
748 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
749 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
750 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
752 Command Line Interface
753 ----------------------
755 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
758 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
760 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
761 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
762 more details about what is included there. This status includes
763 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
768 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
769 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
771 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
773 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
775 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
777 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
779 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
782 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
784 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
785 and may be removed in a future release.
787 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
793 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
795 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
796 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
801 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
802 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
803 cryptography support.
808 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
809 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
810 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
812 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
813 ===========================
815 Command line interface
816 ----------------------
818 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
819 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
821 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
822 ===========================
827 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
828 by message properties.
833 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
835 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
836 ===========================
841 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
846 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
847 now needed to build this documentation.
849 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
850 ===========================
855 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
856 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
858 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
859 =========================
866 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
867 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
868 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
869 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
870 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
873 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
875 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
876 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
877 correct encoding for such messages.
879 Command Line Interface
880 ----------------------
882 Support relative database paths
884 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
885 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
886 to $HOME of the invoking user.
891 Improve stderr handling
893 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
894 needed on e.g. macOS.
896 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
898 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
903 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
904 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
910 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
911 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
917 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
918 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
921 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
922 =========================
927 Add support for thread:{} queries
929 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
930 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
931 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
933 Command Line Interface
934 ----------------------
936 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
938 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
940 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
942 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
943 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
944 does not have to be available during message receipt.
949 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
955 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
956 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
958 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
959 ===========================
964 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
966 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
967 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
968 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
970 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
972 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
973 related abort in `notmuch show`.
975 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
976 ===========================
981 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
982 better late than never.
985 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
986 =========================
988 Command Line Interface
989 ----------------------
991 Support for re-indexing existing messages
993 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
994 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
995 change the way specific messages are indexed.
997 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
998 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
999 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
1001 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
1003 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
1005 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
1007 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
1008 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
1009 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
1010 the setting of `new.tags`.
1012 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
1014 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
1016 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
1018 This inserts into the top level folder.
1020 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
1022 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
1024 New option --output=address for notmuch address
1026 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
1028 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
1030 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
1031 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
1032 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
1034 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
1039 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
1041 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
1042 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
1043 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
1044 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
1045 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
1046 config set index.decrypt true".
1048 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
1049 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
1050 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
1051 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
1052 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
1053 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
1054 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
1055 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
1057 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
1058 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
1059 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
1060 this feature without considering the security of your index.
1065 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
1067 Use make-process when available
1069 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
1070 notmuch command without using temporary files.
1075 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
1077 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
1078 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
1079 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
1080 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
1082 New functions to count files
1084 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
1085 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
1087 New function to remove properties
1089 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
1090 drop all properties with a common pattern:
1091 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
1093 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
1095 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
1096 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
1097 possibility of NULL was not documented.
1099 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
1101 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
1102 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
1103 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
1104 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
1105 operator may decide to change from message to message.
1112 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
1113 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
1114 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
1120 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
1122 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
1123 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
1125 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
1127 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
1129 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
1131 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
1136 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
1137 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
1139 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
1140 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
1141 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
1142 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
1143 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
1144 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
1149 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
1151 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
1152 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
1153 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
1154 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
1156 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
1157 ===========================
1162 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
1163 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
1166 Command Line Interface
1167 ----------------------
1169 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
1170 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
1173 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
1174 ===========================
1176 Command Line Interface
1177 ----------------------
1179 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
1180 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
1185 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
1188 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
1189 ===========================
1194 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
1197 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
1198 =========================
1203 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
1205 Skip HTML tags when indexing
1207 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
1209 Command Line Interface
1210 ----------------------
1212 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
1214 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
1219 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
1221 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
1222 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
1225 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
1230 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
1232 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
1233 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
1235 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
1237 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
1238 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
1241 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
1243 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
1245 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
1247 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
1248 ===========================
1250 Command Line Interface
1251 ----------------------
1253 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
1258 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
1260 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
1261 ===========================
1266 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
1268 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
1269 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
1272 Command Line Interface
1273 ----------------------
1275 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
1277 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
1279 Fix bug in dump header
1281 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
1282 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
1283 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
1288 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
1290 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
1291 =========================
1296 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
1298 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
1301 Command Line Interface
1302 ----------------------
1304 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
1306 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
1307 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
1308 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
1310 New default output format to 3
1312 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
1313 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
1314 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
1315 default format changes.
1320 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
1322 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
1323 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
1324 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
1325 or tree view to resume.
1327 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
1328 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
1329 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
1332 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
1333 they were when you postponed in the final message.
1337 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
1338 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
1339 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
1340 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
1341 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
1345 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
1346 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
1347 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
1348 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
1349 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
1350 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
1354 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
1355 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
1357 Stop display of `application/*` parts
1359 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
1360 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
1361 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
1362 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
1363 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
1364 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
1365 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
1366 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
1369 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
1371 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
1372 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
1373 only tagged the current thread.)
1375 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
1377 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
1378 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
1379 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
1381 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
1383 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
1384 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
1385 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
1386 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
1387 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
1388 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
1389 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
1391 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
1393 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
1394 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
1395 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
1400 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
1402 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
1405 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
1407 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
1410 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
1411 ===========================
1416 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
1418 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
1419 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
1420 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
1423 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
1424 ===========================
1426 Command Line Interface
1427 ----------------------
1429 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
1434 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
1436 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
1437 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
1438 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
1440 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
1441 ===========================
1446 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
1447 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
1449 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
1450 ===========================
1452 Command Line Interface
1453 ----------------------
1455 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
1457 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
1458 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
1459 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
1464 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
1466 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
1467 ===========================
1469 Command Line Interface
1470 ----------------------
1472 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
1477 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
1479 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
1480 ===========================
1485 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
1487 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
1488 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
1489 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
1491 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
1493 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
1495 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
1496 ===========================
1501 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
1503 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
1508 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
1510 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1511 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1512 the original colours.
1514 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1515 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1517 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1519 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1520 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1521 bug, and hence the test.
1523 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1524 =========================
1526 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1527 ---------------------
1529 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1531 Support for single argument date: queries
1533 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1535 Support for blocking opens
1537 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1538 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1540 Support for named queries
1542 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1543 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1544 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1549 Message property API
1551 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1552 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1553 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1554 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1556 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1558 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1563 Support for compile time options
1565 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1566 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1569 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1571 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1572 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1573 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1574 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1575 scripts to ignore it.
1580 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1582 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1583 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1584 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1586 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1587 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1588 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1589 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1590 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1591 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1592 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1594 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1595 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1598 Make internal address completion customizable
1600 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1601 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1602 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1603 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1606 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1608 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1609 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1610 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1611 completion for the current buffer.
1613 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1614 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1615 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1619 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1620 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1621 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1622 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1623 will be added instead.
1625 Face customization is easier
1627 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1628 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1629 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1630 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1632 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1637 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1642 Go bindings moved to contrib
1644 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1646 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1648 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1649 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1651 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1653 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1654 ===========================
1661 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1662 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1664 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1666 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1668 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1669 ===========================
1674 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1676 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1681 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1686 Use `env` to locate perl.
1691 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1693 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1695 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1697 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1699 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1700 =========================
1707 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1708 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1710 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1712 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1713 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1714 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1719 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1720 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1721 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1723 Command Line Interface
1724 ----------------------
1726 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1728 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1733 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1738 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1740 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1741 parts are now included in replies.
1743 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1744 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1745 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1746 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1748 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1750 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1752 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1754 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1755 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1756 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1757 forwards only the current message.
1759 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1761 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1762 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1763 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1764 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1765 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1766 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1767 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1768 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1771 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1772 longer generate empty buffers
1774 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1775 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1776 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1777 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1778 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1780 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1782 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1785 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1787 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1790 Address completion improvements
1792 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1793 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1794 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1795 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1796 interactive address completion.
1798 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1800 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1801 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1802 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1807 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1808 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1809 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1815 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1816 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1817 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1818 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1819 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1820 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1822 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1823 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1824 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1825 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1826 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1827 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1829 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1830 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1832 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1833 =========================
1838 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1841 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1843 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1844 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1845 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1847 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1848 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1850 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1851 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1852 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1854 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1856 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1857 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1858 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1859 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1860 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1861 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1866 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1867 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1870 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1871 option to configure.
1873 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1875 Command Line Interface
1876 ----------------------
1878 Database revision tracking
1880 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1881 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1882 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1883 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1885 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1887 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1888 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1889 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1890 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1891 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1892 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1893 manual page for further information.
1898 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1900 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1901 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1903 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1905 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1906 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1907 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1909 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1911 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1913 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1914 customization as well.
1916 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1918 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1920 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1922 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1924 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1925 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1926 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1927 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1929 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1931 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1932 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1933 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1934 this variable to 10000.
1939 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1940 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1942 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1944 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1945 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1946 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1947 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1948 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1949 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1950 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1951 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1952 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1955 Database revision tracking
1957 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1958 query parser and the new function
1959 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1961 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1963 Deprecated functions
1965 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1966 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1967 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1968 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1973 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1975 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1976 ===========================
1981 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1983 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1984 ===========================
1989 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1991 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1992 =========================
1994 Command-Line Interface
1995 ----------------------
1997 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1999 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
2000 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
2001 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
2003 Path to gpg is now configurable
2005 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
2006 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
2011 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
2013 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
2018 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
2023 Support messages without Message-IDs.
2028 Undeprecate single message mboxes
2030 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
2031 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
2033 New error logging facility
2035 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
2036 output formerly printed to stderr.
2038 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
2040 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
2042 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
2044 Fix for rounding of seconds
2049 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
2051 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
2052 documentation has been removed.
2054 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
2056 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
2057 some material from the relicensed wiki.
2062 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
2063 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
2064 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
2069 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
2070 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
2071 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
2072 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
2073 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
2074 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
2077 git checkout config origin/config
2079 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
2081 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
2082 =========================
2087 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
2088 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
2089 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
2090 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
2091 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
2092 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
2093 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
2095 Command-Line Interface
2096 ----------------------
2098 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
2100 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
2101 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
2102 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
2103 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
2104 script callers should still check the return value.
2106 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
2108 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
2109 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
2110 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
2111 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
2112 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
2113 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
2114 and returning success even if indexing fails).
2116 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
2118 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
2119 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
2120 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
2122 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
2124 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
2125 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
2126 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
2127 currently unmaintained.
2129 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
2131 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
2132 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
2133 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
2134 have at least `N` files associated with them.
2136 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
2138 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
2139 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
2140 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
2141 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
2142 count of duplicate addresses.
2147 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
2149 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
2150 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
2151 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
2154 Improved handling of the unread tag
2156 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
2157 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
2158 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
2159 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
2160 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
2161 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
2162 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
2164 Expanded default saved search settings
2166 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
2167 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
2169 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
2171 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
2172 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
2173 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
2175 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
2177 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
2178 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
2179 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
2180 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
2181 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
2182 the variable for details.
2187 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
2189 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
2190 Representing these independently of the database version number will
2191 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
2192 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
2194 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2196 Previously, library users were required to call
2197 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
2198 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
2199 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
2200 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
2201 too out of date for that API.
2203 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
2205 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
2206 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
2207 atomic section will be aborted.
2209 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
2210 `notmuch_database_destroy`
2212 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
2214 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
2215 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
2216 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
2217 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
2218 messages into the same thread.
2223 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
2224 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
2225 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
2226 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
2227 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
2228 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
2233 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
2234 from the config file. Use something like:
2238 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
2239 "footer": "</body></html>",
2248 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
2253 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
2254 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
2255 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
2257 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
2258 ===========================
2263 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
2265 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
2267 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
2269 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
2270 structure for signatures changed slightly.
2272 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
2274 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
2277 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
2278 ===========================
2280 This is a bug fix and portability release.
2285 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
2287 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
2289 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
2291 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
2293 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
2299 Use --quick when starting emacs
2301 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
2303 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
2305 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
2307 Command-Line Interface
2308 ----------------------
2310 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
2311 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
2316 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
2318 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
2319 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
2321 Fix for phrase indexing
2323 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
2324 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
2325 will affect only newly indexed messages.
2330 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
2332 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
2333 unintentionally removed.
2335 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
2336 =========================
2341 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
2342 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
2343 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
2344 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
2345 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
2346 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
2347 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
2348 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
2349 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
2355 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
2357 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
2358 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
2359 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
2360 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
2361 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
2362 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
2363 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
2364 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
2366 There is a new `path:` search prefix
2368 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
2369 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
2370 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
2371 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
2374 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
2376 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
2377 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
2378 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
2379 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
2380 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
2381 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
2382 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
2387 Notmuch database upgrade
2389 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
2390 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
2391 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
2392 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
2393 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
2394 released version of Notmuch before now.
2396 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
2398 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
2399 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
2400 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
2401 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
2403 Message header parsing changes
2405 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
2406 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
2407 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
2408 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
2409 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
2410 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
2412 Command-Line Interface
2413 ----------------------
2415 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
2417 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
2419 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
2421 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
2423 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
2425 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
2426 user does not want it.
2428 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
2430 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
2431 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
2432 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
2433 support formatted output.
2435 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
2437 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
2438 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
2439 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
2447 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
2448 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
2449 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
2450 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
2451 `~/.emacs` with these.
2453 Changed format for saved searches
2455 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
2456 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
2457 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
2458 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
2461 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
2462 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
2463 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
2464 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2466 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
2467 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
2468 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
2470 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
2471 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
2472 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
2473 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
2474 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
2476 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
2478 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
2479 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
2480 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
2482 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
2484 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
2485 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
2486 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
2487 message had been unread).
2489 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
2490 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
2491 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
2492 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
2494 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
2495 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
2496 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
2498 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
2499 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
2500 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
2501 to tags already present.
2505 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
2506 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
2507 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
2508 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
2509 these differ from each other.
2510 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2512 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2514 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2515 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2516 for these Emacs versions.
2518 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2520 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2521 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2523 Bug fixes for sender identities
2525 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2526 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2527 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2529 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2531 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2532 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2533 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2534 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2536 Reply pushes mark before signature
2538 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2539 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2540 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2542 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2544 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2545 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2551 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2552 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2554 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2555 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2556 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2557 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2559 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2560 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2561 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2562 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2563 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2565 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2567 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2568 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2570 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2571 =========================
2573 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2574 ---------------------------------------
2576 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2577 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2578 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2579 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2580 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2581 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2582 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2586 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2587 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2589 Command-Line Interface
2590 ----------------------
2592 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2594 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2595 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2596 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2597 print for each message.
2599 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2600 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2601 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2602 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2604 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2606 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2607 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2608 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2610 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2612 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2613 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2614 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2615 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2617 `notmuch compact` command
2619 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2620 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2621 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2622 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2623 move the compacted database into place.
2628 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2630 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2631 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2632 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2633 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2634 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2635 and multiple threads.
2637 Using `notmuch-tree`
2639 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2641 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2642 search, show and tree mode itself)
2644 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2647 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2648 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2650 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2652 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2653 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2654 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2655 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2656 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2657 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2658 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2660 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2662 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2663 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2664 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2665 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2666 thread when the search was performed.
2668 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2670 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2671 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2672 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2674 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2676 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2677 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2680 Built-in help improvements
2682 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2683 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2684 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2686 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2688 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2689 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2690 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2692 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2694 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2695 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2697 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2699 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2700 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2701 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2702 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2704 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2706 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2707 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2708 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2709 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2711 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2713 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2714 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2715 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2717 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2719 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2720 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2721 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2723 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2725 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2726 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2727 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2728 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2729 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2731 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2733 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2734 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2735 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2736 the body part of the message.
2741 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2742 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2743 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2745 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2746 =========================
2748 Command-Line Interface
2749 ----------------------
2751 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2753 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2754 folder and notmuch index.
2756 `notmuch count --batch` option
2758 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2759 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2761 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2763 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2764 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2765 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2768 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2770 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2771 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2772 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2773 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2774 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2777 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2779 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2780 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2782 Top level option to specify configuration file
2784 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2785 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2787 Bash command-line completion
2789 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2790 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2791 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2792 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2793 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2794 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2795 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2796 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2797 bash-completion package.
2799 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2804 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2806 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2807 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2808 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2809 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2810 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2811 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2812 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2813 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2815 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2817 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2818 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2819 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2821 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2823 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2824 previous thread in the search results.
2826 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2828 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2829 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2831 Faster search and show
2833 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2834 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2835 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2836 threads should show faster.
2840 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2841 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2842 in question was now removed from this release.
2847 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2848 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2853 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2855 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2856 ===========================
2861 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2863 Internal test framework changes
2864 -------------------------------
2866 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2867 being unimplemented.
2869 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2870 ===========================
2872 Internal test framework changes
2873 -------------------------------
2875 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2876 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2878 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2879 =========================
2884 Date range search support
2886 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2887 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2888 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2889 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2890 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2893 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2895 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2896 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2897 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2898 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2899 but may be removed in a future release.
2901 Command-Line Interface
2902 ----------------------
2904 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2906 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2907 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2909 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2911 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2912 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2913 officially deprecated.
2915 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2917 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2918 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2919 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2921 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2923 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2924 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2927 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2928 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2929 dump/restore format.
2931 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2933 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2934 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2935 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2937 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2939 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2940 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2941 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2943 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2945 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2946 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2947 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2948 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2953 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2955 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2956 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2957 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2958 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2960 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2962 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2963 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2964 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2965 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2966 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2967 the behavior of this, see
2968 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2969 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2971 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2972 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2973 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2975 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2977 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2978 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2981 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2983 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2984 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2985 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2986 simply displayed in place of the message.
2988 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2990 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2991 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2993 Improved text/calendar content handling
2995 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2996 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2997 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2998 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
3000 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
3002 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
3003 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
3004 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
3005 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
3007 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
3009 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
3010 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
3011 for HTML email containing images.
3013 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
3015 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
3017 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
3019 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
3022 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
3024 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
3025 the point where it was.
3027 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
3029 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
3030 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
3031 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
3032 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
3033 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
3035 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
3037 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
3038 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
3039 thread instead of the message id.
3041 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
3042 -----------------------------
3044 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
3045 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
3046 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
3047 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
3048 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
3049 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
3050 further details and installation.
3055 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
3057 Internal test framework changes
3058 -------------------------------
3060 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
3062 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
3063 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
3064 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
3065 can result in buggy behavior.
3067 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
3068 =========================
3073 Maildir tag synchronization
3075 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
3076 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
3077 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
3078 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
3079 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
3080 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
3083 Command-Line Interface
3084 ----------------------
3086 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
3087 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
3088 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
3089 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
3090 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
3096 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
3098 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
3100 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
3101 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
3102 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
3104 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
3106 It is now possible to embed newlines in
3107 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
3108 span multiple lines.
3110 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
3112 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
3113 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
3114 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
3115 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
3116 inside the result or message.
3118 Search now uses the JSON format internally
3120 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
3121 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
3123 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
3124 user-specified formatting
3126 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
3127 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
3128 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
3129 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
3130 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
3132 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
3133 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
3135 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
3136 ===========================
3141 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
3142 compilation error for this contrib package.
3144 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
3145 ===========================
3150 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
3152 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
3153 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
3154 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
3155 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
3157 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
3158 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
3161 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
3162 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
3163 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
3164 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
3167 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
3169 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
3172 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
3173 =========================
3175 Command-Line Interface
3176 ----------------------
3180 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
3181 for a reply message and full information about the original message
3182 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
3183 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
3185 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
3186 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
3187 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
3188 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
3192 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
3193 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
3195 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
3196 tag in your query, for example:
3198 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
3200 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
3201 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
3203 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
3204 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
3206 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
3208 Raw show format changes
3210 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
3211 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
3212 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
3213 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
3214 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
3215 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
3216 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
3217 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
3219 Listing configuration items
3221 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
3227 Changes to tagging interface
3229 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
3230 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
3231 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
3232 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
3233 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
3234 for more information.
3236 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
3237 may need to update in custom configurations.
3239 Reply improvement using the JSON format
3241 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
3242 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
3243 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
3244 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
3247 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
3248 -----------------------------
3250 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
3251 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
3252 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
3253 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
3254 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
3255 contrib/ from now on.
3260 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
3261 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
3263 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
3264 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
3266 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
3267 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
3268 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
3270 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
3271 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
3273 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
3274 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
3275 returning the new database object or directory object.
3282 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
3283 compatible with go 1.
3285 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
3286 =========================
3288 Command-Line Interface
3289 ----------------------
3293 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
3294 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
3295 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
3296 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
3298 Mail store folder/file ignore
3300 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
3301 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
3302 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
3304 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
3305 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
3307 Unified help and manual pages
3309 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
3310 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
3313 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
3315 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
3316 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
3324 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
3325 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
3326 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
3327 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
3329 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
3331 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
3332 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
3334 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
3337 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
3338 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
3339 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
3341 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
3343 should be changed to:
3345 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
3347 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
3349 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
3350 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
3352 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
3354 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
3355 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
3356 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
3357 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
3358 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
3359 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
3363 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
3364 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
3365 of Mailing List Archives.
3367 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
3369 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
3370 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
3373 Show view archiving key binding changes
3375 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
3376 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
3377 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
3378 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
3379 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
3382 Support text/calendar MIME type
3384 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
3387 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
3389 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
3390 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
3391 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
3392 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
3394 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
3396 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
3397 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
3398 messages blue by default in the search view.
3402 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
3403 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
3410 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
3413 Python bindings changes
3414 -----------------------
3416 Python 3.2 compatibility
3418 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
3420 Added missing unicode conversions
3422 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
3423 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
3424 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
3429 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
3431 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
3432 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
3433 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
3434 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
3435 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
3437 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
3438 ===========================
3443 Fix error handling in python bindings
3445 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
3446 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
3447 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
3448 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
3450 Quote MML tags in replies
3452 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
3453 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
3454 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
3455 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
3456 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
3457 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
3458 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
3459 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
3461 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
3462 =========================
3464 Command-Line Interface
3465 ----------------------
3469 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
3470 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
3471 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
3472 importing new messages into the database.
3474 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
3476 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
3477 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
3478 sometimes. This is now fixed.
3483 Automatic tag query optimization
3485 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
3486 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
3487 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
3489 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
3491 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
3492 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
3493 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
3498 Reduction of memory leaks
3500 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
3501 and fixed in this release.
3508 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
3509 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
3510 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3513 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3515 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3516 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3517 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3520 Improvements in saved search management
3522 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3523 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3524 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3526 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3528 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3529 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3530 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3532 New face for crypto parts headers
3534 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3535 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3536 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3539 Use space as default thousands separator
3541 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3542 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3543 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3545 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3546 buttonized id: links
3548 New function notmuch-show-advance
3550 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3551 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3552 be bound to SPC with:
3554 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3556 Various performance improvements
3561 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3562 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3565 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3566 ===========================
3571 Fix crash in python bindings
3573 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3574 for some, but not all users.
3576 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3577 ===========================
3582 Fix `--help` argument
3584 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3585 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3586 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3588 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3589 =========================
3591 New build and testing features
3592 ------------------------------
3594 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3595 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3596 prerequisites is improved.
3598 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3600 New command-line features
3601 -------------------------
3603 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3605 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3606 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3609 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3611 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3612 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3613 favour of using stdout.
3615 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3617 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3618 limit the number of results shown.
3620 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3622 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3623 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3626 New emacs UI features
3627 ---------------------
3629 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3631 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3632 starting with "tag:".
3634 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3636 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3637 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3639 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3641 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3643 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3645 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3646 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3651 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3653 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3655 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3656 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3657 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3658 requires a database rebuild:
3660 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3661 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3663 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3665 New collection of add-on tools
3666 ------------------------------
3668 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3669 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3670 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3673 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3675 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3676 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3677 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3679 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3680 ========================
3682 New, general features
3683 ---------------------
3685 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3687 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3688 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3689 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3690 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3691 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3698 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3699 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3701 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3705 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3706 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3707 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3710 Python bindings changes
3711 -----------------------
3713 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3715 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3716 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3717 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3718 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3719 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3720 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3722 Ruby bindings changes
3723 ---------------------
3725 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3726 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3727 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3728 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3733 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3735 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3736 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3738 Reply formatting cleanup
3739 ------------------------
3741 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3742 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3744 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3745 ========================
3747 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3749 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3750 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3751 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3752 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3755 Improved Build system portability
3757 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3758 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3759 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3761 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3763 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3765 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3767 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3768 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3769 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3771 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3772 ========================
3774 Vim interface improvements
3775 --------------------------
3777 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3779 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3780 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3781 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3782 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3783 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3785 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3787 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3788 * fix compose temp file name
3790 Python Bindings changes
3791 -----------------------
3793 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3795 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3796 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3798 Build-System improvements
3799 -------------------------
3801 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3803 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3806 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3807 ==========================
3812 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3814 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3815 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3817 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3818 =======================
3820 New, general features
3821 ---------------------
3823 Folder-based searching
3825 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3826 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3827 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3831 For example, one might use things such as:
3837 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3838 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3840 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3841 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3842 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3843 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3845 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3846 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3847 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3850 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3851 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3853 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3855 Support for PGP/MIME
3857 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3858 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3859 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3861 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3863 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3864 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3866 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3867 notmuch will receive these tags.
3869 New command-line features
3870 -------------------------
3872 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3874 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3875 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3877 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3879 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3880 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3881 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3883 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3885 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3886 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3887 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3888 which parts a signature part applies).
3890 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3892 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3893 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3894 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3895 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3896 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3899 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3901 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3902 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3903 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3904 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3905 by translating it internally to the new call.
3907 Performance improvements
3908 ------------------------
3910 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3912 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3913 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3914 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3916 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3917 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3919 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3921 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3922 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3923 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3925 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3926 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3927 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3928 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3930 Faster initial indexing
3932 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3933 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3934 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3936 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3938 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3939 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3940 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3941 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3943 New emacs-interface features
3944 ----------------------------
3946 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3948 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3949 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3950 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3951 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3952 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3953 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3955 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3957 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3958 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3959 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3960 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3962 User-selectable From address
3964 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3965 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3966 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3967 will prompt for the from address to use.
3969 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3970 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3971 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3973 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3974 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3975 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3978 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3980 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3981 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3983 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3985 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3987 ----- Original Message -----
3989 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3990 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3991 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3992 citations work much like conventional citations.
3994 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3996 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3997 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3998 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3999 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
4000 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
4002 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
4003 Notmuch After Tag Hook
4005 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
4007 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
4008 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
4009 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
4011 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
4013 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
4014 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
4015 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
4016 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
4017 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
4019 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
4021 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
4024 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
4026 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
4028 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
4030 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
4033 Vim interface improvements
4034 --------------------------
4036 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
4038 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
4039 * Implementing archive in show view
4040 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
4041 * Add delete commands
4044 Bindings improvements
4045 ---------------------
4047 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
4049 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
4050 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
4052 Python bindings have been updated and extended
4054 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
4058 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
4059 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
4060 `list(Messages)` works now
4061 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
4063 These allow, for example:
4065 if msg1 == msg2: ...
4067 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
4069 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
4075 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
4077 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
4080 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
4082 New build-system features
4083 -------------------------
4085 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
4087 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
4088 the configure script from some other directory:
4095 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
4097 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
4098 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
4099 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
4100 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
4101 manual invocation of configure.
4103 New test-suite feature
4104 ----------------------
4106 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
4108 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
4109 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
4110 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
4111 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
4112 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
4115 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
4117 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
4118 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
4119 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
4120 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
4121 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
4122 are updated to take advantage of this.
4124 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
4126 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
4127 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
4128 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
4129 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
4135 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
4137 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
4138 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
4139 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
4141 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
4143 This fixed a bug where a search for:
4145 to:user@elsewhere.com
4147 would incorrectly match a message sent:
4149 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
4151 Fix --output=json when search has no results
4153 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
4154 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
4155 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
4158 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
4159 from the Received headers in some cases
4161 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
4162 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
4164 Cleaned up several memory leaks
4166 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
4168 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
4170 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
4171 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
4172 interface and were never intended to be exported.
4174 Emacs-interface bug fixes
4175 -------------------------
4177 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
4179 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
4180 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
4181 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
4183 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
4185 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
4186 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
4187 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
4190 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
4192 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
4193 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
4194 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
4195 fixed to avoid this bug.
4197 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
4199 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
4200 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
4202 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
4203 ========================
4205 New, general features
4206 ---------------------
4208 Maildir-flag synchronization
4210 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
4211 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
4220 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
4222 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
4223 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
4224 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
4225 renamed with an 'R' flag).
4227 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
4228 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
4229 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
4230 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
4233 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
4235 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
4236 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
4237 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
4239 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
4240 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
4242 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
4243 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
4245 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
4246 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
4247 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
4249 New library features
4250 --------------------
4252 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
4254 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
4255 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
4256 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
4257 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
4259 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
4260 message with the new function:
4262 notmuch_message_get_filenames
4264 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
4265 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
4266 over all available filenames for a given message.
4268 New command-line features
4269 -------------------------
4271 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
4273 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
4274 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
4275 access to the mail store itself.
4277 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
4278 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
4279 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
4280 name of a script containing:
4282 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
4284 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
4285 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
4291 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
4293 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
4295 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
4297 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
4298 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
4299 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
4300 now produces nothing).
4302 Emacs interface improvements
4303 ----------------------------
4305 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
4307 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
4309 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
4311 Display current thread subject in a header line
4313 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
4315 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
4317 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
4318 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
4319 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
4320 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
4321 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
4322 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
4323 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
4325 Vim interface improvements
4326 --------------------------
4328 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
4330 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
4331 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
4337 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
4339 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
4340 ========================
4342 New command-line features
4343 -------------------------
4345 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
4347 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
4348 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
4349 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
4351 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
4352 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
4353 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
4354 scripts. For example:
4356 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
4357 <operations-on> "$file"
4360 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
4362 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
4363 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
4364 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
4365 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
4366 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
4367 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
4369 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
4371 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
4372 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
4373 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
4374 custom items stored in the configuration file.
4376 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
4378 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
4379 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
4380 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
4381 default rather than Bcc.
4383 New library features
4384 --------------------
4386 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
4388 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
4389 `notmuch_query_t` object.
4394 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
4396 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
4397 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
4398 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
4399 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
4400 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
4401 notmuch customize interface.
4403 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
4405 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
4406 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
4407 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
4408 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
4410 Optional support for detecting inline patches
4412 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
4413 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
4414 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
4415 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
4417 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
4419 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
4420 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
4421 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
4422 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
4423 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
4424 notmuch customize interface.
4426 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
4428 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
4429 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
4430 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
4431 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
4432 notmuch customize interface.
4434 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
4436 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
4437 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
4438 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
4439 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
4442 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
4444 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
4445 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
4446 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
4449 New build-system features
4450 -------------------------
4452 Various portability fixes have been applied
4454 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
4455 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
4456 more portable than ever before.
4458 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
4460 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
4461 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
4462 after installing. This support takes two forms:
4464 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
4465 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
4466 automatically run ldconfig.
4468 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
4469 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
4470 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
4472 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
4473 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
4474 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
4475 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
4477 Check compiler/linker options before using them
4479 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
4480 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
4481 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
4482 used in the resulting Makefile.
4484 New test-suite features
4485 -----------------------
4487 New modularization of test suite
4489 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
4490 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
4491 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
4492 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
4493 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
4494 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
4495 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
4496 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
4498 New testing of emacs interface
4500 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
4501 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
4502 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
4503 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
4504 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
4505 database via the FCC setting.
4510 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4512 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4513 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4514 persistent error of the form:
4516 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4518 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4519 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4521 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4523 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4524 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4525 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4527 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4529 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4530 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4531 parsing the notmuch results).
4533 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4535 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4538 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4539 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4540 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4545 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4547 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4548 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4549 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4550 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4551 the emacs interface.
4553 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4555 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4556 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4557 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4559 Python-binding fixes
4560 --------------------
4562 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4564 Debian-specific fixes
4565 ---------------------
4567 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4569 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4570 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4571 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4574 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4575 ==========================
4580 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4582 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4583 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4584 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4585 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4587 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4589 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4590 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4591 want notmuch to crash.
4596 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4598 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4599 directory does not exist
4604 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4606 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4607 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4609 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4610 ========================
4612 New command-line features
4613 -------------------------
4615 User-configurable tags for new messages
4617 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4618 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4619 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4620 to specify this value.
4622 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4624 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4625 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4626 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4628 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4630 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4631 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4633 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4635 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4636 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4637 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4638 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4639 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4642 Indication of author names that match a search
4644 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4645 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4646 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4647 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4648 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4649 messages in the thread are listed first.
4651 New: Python bindings
4652 --------------------
4654 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4655 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4656 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4657 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4659 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4660 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4661 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4664 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4665 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4666 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4668 Emacs interface improvements
4669 ----------------------------
4671 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4673 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4674 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4675 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4676 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4677 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4678 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4679 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4680 but without any of the disadvantages).
4682 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4683 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4684 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4687 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4688 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4689 instead running something like:
4691 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4693 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4694 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4695 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4698 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4700 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4701 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4702 tweaked by the user.
4704 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4705 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4706 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4709 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4710 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4711 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4714 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4716 This support currently relies on an external program,
4717 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4718 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4719 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4720 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4721 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4724 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4725 notmuch) is available via:
4727 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4729 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4730 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4731 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4733 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4735 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4736 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4737 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4738 making this automatic in a future release.
4740 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4742 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4743 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4744 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4745 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4746 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4747 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4750 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4752 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4753 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4754 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4756 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4758 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4759 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4760 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4762 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4763 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4764 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4765 other representation.
4767 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4768 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4771 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4773 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4774 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4775 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4777 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4778 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4779 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4781 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4783 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4784 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4785 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4786 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4787 to display the search result.
4789 More flexible handling of header visibility
4791 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4792 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4793 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4794 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4795 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4796 with the 'h' keybinding.
4798 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4799 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4800 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4802 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4804 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4806 Customizable formatting of search results
4808 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4809 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4810 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4812 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4814 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4816 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4821 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4823 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4824 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4825 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4826 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4832 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4834 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4835 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4837 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4839 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4840 accept are now all accepted.
4845 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4847 Better display of output from failed tests
4849 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4850 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4852 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4853 ========================
4855 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4856 detailed release notes this time!
4858 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4859 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4861 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4862 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4863 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4864 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4871 Better guessing of From: header
4873 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4874 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4875 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4876 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4877 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4880 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4882 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4883 guaranteed to match all messages.
4885 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4887 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4888 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4889 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4890 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4891 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4894 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4897 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4898 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4899 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4900 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4905 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4907 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4908 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4909 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4910 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4912 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4914 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4916 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4917 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4918 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4920 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4922 Previously, the user might see:
4924 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4928 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4930 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4931 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4932 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4933 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4935 Emacs client features
4936 ---------------------
4938 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4940 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4941 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4942 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4943 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4944 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4946 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4949 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4950 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4951 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4952 search with the '*' binding.
4954 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4956 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4957 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4960 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4962 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4963 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4964 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4966 Build-system features
4967 ---------------------
4969 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4971 Add support to configure for many standard options
4973 We include actual support for:
4975 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4977 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4979 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4980 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4982 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4983 separate "make install-emacs"
4985 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4987 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4988 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4989 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4991 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4994 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4995 ========================
4997 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4999 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
5000 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
5002 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
5003 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
5004 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
5005 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
5006 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
5007 tags from messages in a thread.
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