1 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
2 ===========================
7 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
12 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
17 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
19 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
20 ===========================
25 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
26 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
28 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
29 ===========================
34 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
39 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
40 with a C++ header for some compilers.
42 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
44 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
45 =========================
50 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
51 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
52 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
54 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
56 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
58 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
60 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
63 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
65 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
66 search, show and tree mode)
68 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
71 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
74 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
75 always be newest first.
80 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
81 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
82 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
88 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
89 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
90 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
91 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
93 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
94 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
95 non-status providing versions.
97 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
98 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
100 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
101 promised in the documentation.
106 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
107 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
108 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
113 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
114 development version).
119 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
124 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
126 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
127 =========================
132 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
133 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
134 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
137 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
143 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
144 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
145 notmuch-properties(7)).
150 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
151 has protected headers (see
152 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
153 notmuch-properties(7)).
158 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
160 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
161 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
167 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
170 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
171 ===========================
176 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
178 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
183 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
185 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
186 ===========================
191 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
192 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
194 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
195 ===========================
200 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
202 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
203 =========================
208 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
209 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
212 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
213 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
214 the set of headers to be indexed.
216 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
219 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
220 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
221 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
224 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
225 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
226 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
228 Command Line Interface
229 ----------------------
231 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
234 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
236 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
237 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
238 more details about what is included there. This status includes
239 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
244 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
245 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
247 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
249 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
251 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
253 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
255 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
258 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
260 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
261 and may be removed in a future release.
263 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
269 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
271 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
272 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
277 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
278 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
279 cryptography support.
284 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
285 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
286 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
288 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
289 ===========================
291 Command line interface
292 ----------------------
294 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
295 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
297 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
298 ===========================
303 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
304 by message properties.
309 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
311 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
312 ===========================
317 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
322 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
323 now needed to build this documentation.
325 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
326 ===========================
331 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
332 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
334 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
335 =========================
342 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
343 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
344 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
345 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
346 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
349 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
351 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
352 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
353 correct encoding for such messages.
355 Command Line Interface
356 ----------------------
358 Support relative database paths
360 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
361 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
362 to $HOME of the invoking user.
367 Improve stderr handling
369 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
370 needed on e.g. macOS.
372 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
374 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
379 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
380 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
386 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
387 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
393 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
394 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
397 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
398 =========================
403 Add support for thread:{} queries
405 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
406 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
407 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
409 Command Line Interface
410 ----------------------
412 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
414 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
416 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
418 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
419 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
420 does not have to be available during message receipt.
425 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
431 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
432 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
434 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
435 ===========================
440 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
442 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
443 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
444 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
446 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
448 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
449 related abort in `notmuch show`.
451 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
452 ===========================
457 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
458 better late than never.
461 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
462 =========================
464 Command Line Interface
465 ----------------------
467 Support for re-indexing existing messages
469 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
470 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
471 change the way specific messages are indexed.
473 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
474 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
475 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
477 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
479 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
481 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
483 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
484 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
485 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
486 the setting of `new.tags`.
488 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
490 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
492 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
494 This inserts into the top level folder.
496 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
498 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
500 New option --output=address for notmuch address
502 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
504 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
506 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
507 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
508 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
510 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
515 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
517 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
518 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
519 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
520 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
521 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
522 config set index.decrypt true".
524 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
525 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
526 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
527 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
528 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
529 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
530 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
531 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
533 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
534 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
535 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
536 this feature without considering the security of your index.
541 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
543 Use make-process when available
545 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
546 notmuch command without using temporary files.
551 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
553 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
554 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
555 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
556 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
558 New functions to count files
560 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
561 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
563 New function to remove properties
565 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
566 drop all properties with a common pattern:
567 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
569 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
571 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
572 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
573 possibility of NULL was not documented.
575 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
577 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
578 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
579 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
580 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
581 operator may decide to change from message to message.
588 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
589 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
590 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
596 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
598 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
599 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
601 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
603 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
605 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
607 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
612 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
613 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
615 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
616 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
617 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
618 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
619 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
620 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
625 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
627 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
628 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
629 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
630 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
632 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
633 ===========================
638 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
639 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
642 Command Line Interface
643 ----------------------
645 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
646 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
649 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
650 ===========================
652 Command Line Interface
653 ----------------------
655 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
656 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
661 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
664 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
665 ===========================
670 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
673 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
674 =========================
679 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
681 Skip HTML tags when indexing
683 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
685 Command Line Interface
686 ----------------------
688 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
690 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
695 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
697 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
698 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
701 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
706 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
708 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
709 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
711 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
713 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
714 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
717 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
719 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
721 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
723 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
724 ===========================
726 Command Line Interface
727 ----------------------
729 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
734 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
736 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
737 ===========================
742 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
744 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
745 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
748 Command Line Interface
749 ----------------------
751 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
753 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
755 Fix bug in dump header
757 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
758 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
759 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
764 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
766 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
767 =========================
772 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
774 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
777 Command Line Interface
778 ----------------------
780 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
782 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
783 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
784 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
786 New default output format to 3
788 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
789 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
790 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
791 default format changes.
796 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
798 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
799 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
800 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
801 or tree view to resume.
803 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
804 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
805 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
808 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
809 they were when you postponed in the final message.
813 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
814 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
815 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
816 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
817 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
821 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
822 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
823 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
824 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
825 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
826 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
830 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
831 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
833 Stop display of `application/*` parts
835 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
836 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
837 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
838 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
839 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
840 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
841 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
842 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
845 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
847 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
848 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
849 only tagged the current thread.)
851 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
853 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
854 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
855 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
857 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
859 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
860 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
861 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
862 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
863 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
864 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
865 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
867 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
869 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
870 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
871 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
876 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
878 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
881 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
883 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
886 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
887 ===========================
892 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
894 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
895 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
896 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
899 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
900 ===========================
902 Command Line Interface
903 ----------------------
905 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
910 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
912 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
913 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
914 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
916 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
917 ===========================
922 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
923 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
925 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
926 ===========================
928 Command Line Interface
929 ----------------------
931 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
933 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
934 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
935 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
940 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
942 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
943 ===========================
945 Command Line Interface
946 ----------------------
948 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
953 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
955 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
956 ===========================
961 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
963 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
964 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
965 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
967 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
969 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
971 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
972 ===========================
977 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
979 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
984 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
986 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
987 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
988 the original colours.
990 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
991 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
993 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
995 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
996 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
997 bug, and hence the test.
999 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1000 =========================
1002 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1003 ---------------------
1005 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1007 Support for single argument date: queries
1009 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1011 Support for blocking opens
1013 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1014 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1016 Support for named queries
1018 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1019 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1020 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1025 Message property API
1027 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1028 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1029 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1030 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1032 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1034 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1039 Support for compile time options
1041 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1042 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1045 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1047 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1048 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1049 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1050 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1051 scripts to ignore it.
1056 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1058 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1059 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1060 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1062 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1063 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1064 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1065 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1066 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1067 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1068 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1070 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1071 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1074 Make internal address completion customizable
1076 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1077 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1078 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1079 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1082 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1084 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1085 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1086 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1087 completion for the current buffer.
1089 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1090 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1091 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1095 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1096 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1097 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1098 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1099 will be added instead.
1101 Face customization is easier
1103 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1104 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1105 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1106 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1108 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1113 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1118 Go bindings moved to contrib
1120 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1122 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1124 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1125 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1127 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1129 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1130 ===========================
1137 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1138 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1140 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1142 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1144 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1145 ===========================
1150 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1152 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1157 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1162 Use `env` to locate perl.
1167 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1169 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1171 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1173 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1175 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1176 =========================
1183 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1184 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1186 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1188 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1189 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1190 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1195 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1196 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1197 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1199 Command Line Interface
1200 ----------------------
1202 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1204 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1209 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1214 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1216 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1217 parts are now included in replies.
1219 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1220 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1221 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1222 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1224 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1226 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1228 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1230 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1231 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1232 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1233 forwards only the current message.
1235 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1237 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1238 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1239 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1240 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1241 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1242 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1243 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1244 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1247 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1248 longer generate empty buffers
1250 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1251 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1252 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1253 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1254 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1256 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1258 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1261 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1263 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1266 Address completion improvements
1268 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1269 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1270 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1271 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1272 interactive address completion.
1274 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1276 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1277 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1278 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1283 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1284 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1285 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1291 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1292 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1293 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1294 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1295 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1296 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1298 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1299 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1300 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1301 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1302 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1303 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1305 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1306 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1308 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1309 =========================
1314 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1317 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1319 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1320 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1321 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1323 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1324 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1326 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1327 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1328 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1330 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1332 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1333 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1334 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1335 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1336 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1337 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1342 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1343 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1346 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1347 option to configure.
1349 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1351 Command Line Interface
1352 ----------------------
1354 Database revision tracking
1356 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1357 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1358 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1359 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1361 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1363 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1364 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1365 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1366 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1367 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1368 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1369 manual page for further information.
1374 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1376 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1377 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1379 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1381 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1382 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1383 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1385 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1387 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1389 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1390 customization as well.
1392 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1394 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1396 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1398 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1400 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1401 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1402 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1403 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1405 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1407 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1408 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1409 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1410 this variable to 10000.
1415 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1416 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1418 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1420 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1421 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1422 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1423 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1424 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1425 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1426 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1427 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1428 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1431 Database revision tracking
1433 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1434 query parser and the new function
1435 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1437 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1439 Deprecated functions
1441 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1442 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1443 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1444 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1449 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1451 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1452 ===========================
1457 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1459 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1460 ===========================
1465 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1467 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1468 =========================
1470 Command-Line Interface
1471 ----------------------
1473 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1475 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1476 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1477 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1479 Path to gpg is now configurable
1481 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1482 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1487 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1489 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1494 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1499 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1504 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1506 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1507 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1509 New error logging facility
1511 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1512 output formerly printed to stderr.
1514 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1516 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1518 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1520 Fix for rounding of seconds
1525 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1527 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1528 documentation has been removed.
1530 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1532 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1533 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1538 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1539 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1540 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1545 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1546 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1547 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1548 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1549 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1550 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1553 git checkout config origin/config
1555 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1557 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1558 =========================
1563 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1564 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1565 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1566 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1567 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1568 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1569 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1571 Command-Line Interface
1572 ----------------------
1574 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1576 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1577 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1578 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1579 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1580 script callers should still check the return value.
1582 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1584 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1585 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1586 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1587 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1588 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1589 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1590 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1592 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1594 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1595 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1596 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1598 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1600 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1601 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1602 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1603 currently unmaintained.
1605 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1607 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1608 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1609 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1610 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1612 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1614 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1615 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1616 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1617 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1618 count of duplicate addresses.
1623 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1625 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1626 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1627 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1630 Improved handling of the unread tag
1632 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1633 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1634 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1635 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1636 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1637 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1638 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1640 Expanded default saved search settings
1642 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1643 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1645 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1647 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1648 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1649 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1651 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1653 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1654 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1655 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1656 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1657 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1658 the variable for details.
1663 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1665 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1666 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1667 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1668 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1670 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1672 Previously, library users were required to call
1673 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1674 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1675 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1676 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1677 too out of date for that API.
1679 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1681 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1682 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1683 atomic section will be aborted.
1685 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1686 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1688 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1690 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1691 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1692 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1693 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1694 messages into the same thread.
1699 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1700 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1701 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1702 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1703 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1704 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1709 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1710 from the config file. Use something like:
1714 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1715 "footer": "</body></html>",
1724 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1729 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1730 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1731 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1733 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1734 ===========================
1739 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1741 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1743 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1745 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1746 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1748 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1750 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1753 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1754 ===========================
1756 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1761 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1763 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1765 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1767 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1769 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1775 Use --quick when starting emacs
1777 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1779 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1781 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1783 Command-Line Interface
1784 ----------------------
1786 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1787 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1792 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1794 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1795 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1797 Fix for phrase indexing
1799 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1800 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1801 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1806 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1808 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1809 unintentionally removed.
1811 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1812 =========================
1817 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1818 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1819 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1820 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1821 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1822 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1823 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1824 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1825 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1831 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1833 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1834 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1835 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1836 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1837 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1838 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1839 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1840 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1842 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1844 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1845 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1846 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1847 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1850 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1852 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1853 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1854 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1855 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1856 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1857 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1858 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1863 Notmuch database upgrade
1865 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1866 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1867 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1868 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1869 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1870 released version of Notmuch before now.
1872 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1874 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1875 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1876 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1877 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1879 Message header parsing changes
1881 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1882 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1883 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1884 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1885 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1886 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1888 Command-Line Interface
1889 ----------------------
1891 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1893 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1895 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1897 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1899 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1901 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1902 user does not want it.
1904 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1906 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1907 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1908 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1909 support formatted output.
1911 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1913 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1914 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1915 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1923 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1924 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1925 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1926 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1927 `~/.emacs` with these.
1929 Changed format for saved searches
1931 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1932 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1933 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1934 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1937 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1938 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1939 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1940 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1942 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1943 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1944 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1946 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1947 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1948 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1949 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1950 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1952 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1954 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1955 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1956 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1958 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1960 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1961 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1962 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1963 message had been unread).
1965 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1966 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1967 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1968 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1970 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1971 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1972 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1974 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1975 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1976 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1977 to tags already present.
1981 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1982 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1983 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1984 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1985 these differ from each other.
1986 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1988 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1990 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1991 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1992 for these Emacs versions.
1994 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1996 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1997 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1999 Bug fixes for sender identities
2001 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2002 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2003 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2005 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2007 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2008 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2009 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2010 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2012 Reply pushes mark before signature
2014 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2015 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2016 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2018 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2020 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2021 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2027 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2028 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2030 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2031 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2032 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2033 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2035 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2036 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2037 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2038 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2039 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2041 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2043 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2044 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2046 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2047 =========================
2049 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2050 ---------------------------------------
2052 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2053 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2054 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2055 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2056 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2057 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2058 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2062 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2063 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2065 Command-Line Interface
2066 ----------------------
2068 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2070 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2071 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2072 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2073 print for each message.
2075 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2076 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2077 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2078 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2080 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2082 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2083 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2084 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2086 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2088 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2089 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2090 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2091 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2093 `notmuch compact` command
2095 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2096 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2097 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2098 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2099 move the compacted database into place.
2104 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2106 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2107 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2108 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2109 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2110 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2111 and multiple threads.
2113 Using `notmuch-tree`
2115 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2117 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2118 search, show and tree mode itself)
2120 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2123 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2124 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2126 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2128 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2129 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2130 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2131 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2132 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2133 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2134 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2136 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2138 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2139 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2140 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2141 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2142 thread when the search was performed.
2144 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2146 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2147 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2148 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2150 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2152 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2153 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2156 Built-in help improvements
2158 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2159 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2160 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2162 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2164 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2165 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2166 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2168 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2170 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2171 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2173 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2175 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2176 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2177 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2178 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2180 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2182 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2183 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2184 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2185 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2187 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2189 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2190 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2191 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2193 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2195 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2196 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2197 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2199 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2201 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2202 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2203 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2204 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2205 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2207 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2209 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2210 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2211 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2212 the body part of the message.
2217 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2218 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2219 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2221 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2222 =========================
2224 Command-Line Interface
2225 ----------------------
2227 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2229 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2230 folder and notmuch index.
2232 `notmuch count --batch` option
2234 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2235 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2237 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2239 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2240 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2241 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2244 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2246 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2247 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2248 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2249 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2250 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2253 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2255 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2256 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2258 Top level option to specify configuration file
2260 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2261 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2263 Bash command-line completion
2265 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2266 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2267 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2268 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2269 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2270 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2271 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2272 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2273 bash-completion package.
2275 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2280 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2282 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2283 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2284 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2285 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2286 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2287 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2288 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2289 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2291 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2293 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2294 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2295 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2297 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2299 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2300 previous thread in the search results.
2302 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2304 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2305 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2307 Faster search and show
2309 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2310 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2311 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2312 threads should show faster.
2316 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2317 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2318 in question was now removed from this release.
2323 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2324 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2329 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2331 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2332 ===========================
2337 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2339 Internal test framework changes
2340 -------------------------------
2342 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2343 being unimplemented.
2345 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2346 ===========================
2348 Internal test framework changes
2349 -------------------------------
2351 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2352 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2354 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2355 =========================
2360 Date range search support
2362 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2363 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2364 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2365 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2366 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2369 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2371 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2372 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2373 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2374 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2375 but may be removed in a future release.
2377 Command-Line Interface
2378 ----------------------
2380 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2382 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2383 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2385 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2387 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2388 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2389 officially deprecated.
2391 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2393 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2394 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2395 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2397 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2399 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2400 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2403 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2404 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2405 dump/restore format.
2407 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2409 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2410 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2411 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2413 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2415 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2416 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2417 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2419 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2421 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2422 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2423 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2424 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2429 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2431 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2432 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2433 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2434 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2436 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2438 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2439 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2440 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2441 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2442 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2443 the behavior of this, see
2444 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2445 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2447 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2448 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2449 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2451 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2453 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2454 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2457 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2459 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2460 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2461 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2462 simply displayed in place of the message.
2464 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2466 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2467 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2469 Improved text/calendar content handling
2471 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2472 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2473 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2474 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2476 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2478 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2479 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2480 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2481 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2483 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2485 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2486 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2487 for HTML email containing images.
2489 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2491 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2493 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2495 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2498 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2500 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2501 the point where it was.
2503 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2505 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2506 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2507 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2508 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2509 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2511 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2513 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2514 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2515 thread instead of the message id.
2517 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2518 -----------------------------
2520 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2521 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2522 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2523 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2524 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2525 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2526 further details and installation.
2531 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2533 Internal test framework changes
2534 -------------------------------
2536 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2538 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2539 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2540 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2541 can result in buggy behavior.
2543 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2544 =========================
2549 Maildir tag synchronization
2551 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2552 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2553 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2554 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2555 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2556 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2559 Command-Line Interface
2560 ----------------------
2562 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2563 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2564 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2565 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2566 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2572 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2574 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2576 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2577 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2578 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2580 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2582 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2583 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2584 span multiple lines.
2586 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2588 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2589 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2590 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2591 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2592 inside the result or message.
2594 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2596 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2597 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2599 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2600 user-specified formatting
2602 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2603 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2604 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2605 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2606 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2608 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2609 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2611 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2612 ===========================
2617 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2618 compilation error for this contrib package.
2620 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2621 ===========================
2626 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2628 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2629 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2630 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2631 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2633 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2634 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2637 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2638 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2639 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2640 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2643 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2645 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2648 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2649 =========================
2651 Command-Line Interface
2652 ----------------------
2656 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2657 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2658 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2659 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2661 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2662 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2663 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2664 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2668 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2669 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2671 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2672 tag in your query, for example:
2674 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2676 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2677 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2679 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2680 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2682 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2684 Raw show format changes
2686 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2687 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2688 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2689 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2690 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2691 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2692 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2693 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2695 Listing configuration items
2697 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2703 Changes to tagging interface
2705 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2706 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2707 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2708 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2709 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2710 for more information.
2712 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2713 may need to update in custom configurations.
2715 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2717 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2718 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2719 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2720 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2723 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2724 -----------------------------
2726 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2727 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2728 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2729 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2730 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2731 contrib/ from now on.
2736 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2737 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2739 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2740 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2742 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2743 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2744 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2746 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2747 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2749 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2750 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2751 returning the new database object or directory object.
2758 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2759 compatible with go 1.
2761 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2762 =========================
2764 Command-Line Interface
2765 ----------------------
2769 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2770 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2771 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2772 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2774 Mail store folder/file ignore
2776 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2777 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2778 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2780 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2781 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2783 Unified help and manual pages
2785 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2786 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2789 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2791 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2792 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2800 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2801 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2802 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2803 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2805 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2807 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2808 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2810 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2813 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2814 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2815 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2817 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2819 should be changed to:
2821 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2823 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2825 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2826 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2828 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2830 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2831 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2832 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2833 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2834 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2835 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2839 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2840 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2841 of Mailing List Archives.
2843 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2845 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2846 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2849 Show view archiving key binding changes
2851 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2852 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2853 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2854 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2855 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2858 Support text/calendar MIME type
2860 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2863 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2865 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2866 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2867 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2868 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2870 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2872 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2873 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2874 messages blue by default in the search view.
2878 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2879 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2886 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2889 Python bindings changes
2890 -----------------------
2892 Python 3.2 compatibility
2894 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2896 Added missing unicode conversions
2898 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2899 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2900 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2905 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2907 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2908 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2909 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2910 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2911 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2913 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2914 ===========================
2919 Fix error handling in python bindings
2921 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2922 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2923 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2924 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2926 Quote MML tags in replies
2928 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2929 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2930 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2931 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2932 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2933 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2934 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2935 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2937 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2938 =========================
2940 Command-Line Interface
2941 ----------------------
2945 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2946 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2947 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2948 importing new messages into the database.
2950 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2952 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2953 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2954 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2959 Automatic tag query optimization
2961 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2962 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2963 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2965 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2967 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2968 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2969 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2974 Reduction of memory leaks
2976 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2977 and fixed in this release.
2984 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2985 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2986 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2989 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2991 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2992 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2993 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2996 Improvements in saved search management
2998 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2999 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3000 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3002 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3004 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3005 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3006 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3008 New face for crypto parts headers
3010 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3011 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3012 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3015 Use space as default thousands separator
3017 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3018 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3019 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3021 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3022 buttonized id: links
3024 New function notmuch-show-advance
3026 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3027 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3028 be bound to SPC with:
3030 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3032 Various performance improvements
3037 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3038 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3041 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3042 ===========================
3047 Fix crash in python bindings
3049 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3050 for some, but not all users.
3052 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3053 ===========================
3058 Fix `--help` argument
3060 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3061 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3062 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3064 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3065 =========================
3067 New build and testing features
3068 ------------------------------
3070 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3071 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3072 prerequisites is improved.
3074 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3076 New command-line features
3077 -------------------------
3079 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3081 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3082 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3085 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3087 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3088 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3089 favour of using stdout.
3091 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3093 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3094 limit the number of results shown.
3096 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3098 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3099 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3102 New emacs UI features
3103 ---------------------
3105 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3107 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3108 starting with "tag:".
3110 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3112 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3113 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3115 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3117 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3119 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3121 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3122 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3127 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3129 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3131 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3132 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3133 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3134 requires a database rebuild:
3136 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3137 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3139 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3141 New collection of add-on tools
3142 ------------------------------
3144 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3145 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3146 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3149 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3151 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3152 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3153 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3155 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3156 ========================
3158 New, general features
3159 ---------------------
3161 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3163 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3164 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3165 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3166 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3167 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3174 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3175 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3177 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3181 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3182 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3183 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3186 Python bindings changes
3187 -----------------------
3189 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3191 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3192 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3193 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3194 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3195 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3196 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3198 Ruby bindings changes
3199 ---------------------
3201 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3202 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3203 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3204 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3209 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3211 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3212 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3214 Reply formatting cleanup
3215 ------------------------
3217 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3218 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3220 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3221 ========================
3223 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3225 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3226 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3227 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3228 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3231 Improved Build system portability
3233 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3234 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3235 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3237 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3239 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3241 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3243 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3244 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3245 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3247 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3248 ========================
3250 Vim interface improvements
3251 --------------------------
3253 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3255 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3256 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3257 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3258 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3259 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3261 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3263 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3264 * fix compose temp file name
3266 Python Bindings changes
3267 -----------------------
3269 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3271 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3272 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3274 Build-System improvements
3275 -------------------------
3277 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3279 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3282 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3283 ==========================
3288 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3290 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3291 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3293 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3294 =======================
3296 New, general features
3297 ---------------------
3299 Folder-based searching
3301 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3302 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3303 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3307 For example, one might use things such as:
3313 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3314 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3316 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3317 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3318 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3319 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3321 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3322 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3323 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3326 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3327 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3329 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3331 Support for PGP/MIME
3333 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3334 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3335 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3337 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3339 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3340 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3342 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3343 notmuch will receive these tags.
3345 New command-line features
3346 -------------------------
3348 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3350 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3351 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3353 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3355 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3356 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3357 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3359 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3361 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3362 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3363 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3364 which parts a signature part applies).
3366 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3368 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3369 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3370 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3371 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3372 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3375 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3377 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3378 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3379 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3380 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3381 by translating it internally to the new call.
3383 Performance improvements
3384 ------------------------
3386 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3388 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3389 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3390 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3392 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3393 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3395 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3397 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3398 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3399 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3401 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3402 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3403 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3404 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3406 Faster initial indexing
3408 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3409 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3410 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3412 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3414 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3415 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3416 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3417 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3419 New emacs-interface features
3420 ----------------------------
3422 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3424 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3425 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3426 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3427 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3428 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3429 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3431 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3433 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3434 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3435 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3436 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3438 User-selectable From address
3440 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3441 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3442 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3443 will prompt for the from address to use.
3445 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3446 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3447 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3449 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3450 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3451 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3454 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3456 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3457 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3459 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3461 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3463 ----- Original Message -----
3465 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3466 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3467 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3468 citations work much like conventional citations.
3470 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3472 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3473 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3474 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3475 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3476 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3478 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3479 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3481 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3483 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3484 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3485 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3487 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3489 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3490 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3491 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3492 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3493 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3495 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3497 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3500 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3502 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3504 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3506 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3509 Vim interface improvements
3510 --------------------------
3512 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3514 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3515 * Implementing archive in show view
3516 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3517 * Add delete commands
3520 Bindings improvements
3521 ---------------------
3523 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3525 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3526 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3528 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3530 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3534 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3535 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3536 `list(Messages)` works now
3537 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3539 These allow, for example:
3541 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3543 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3545 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3551 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3553 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3556 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3558 New build-system features
3559 -------------------------
3561 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3563 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3564 the configure script from some other directory:
3571 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3573 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3574 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3575 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3576 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3577 manual invocation of configure.
3579 New test-suite feature
3580 ----------------------
3582 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3584 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3585 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3586 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3587 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3588 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3591 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3593 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3594 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3595 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3596 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3597 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3598 are updated to take advantage of this.
3600 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3602 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3603 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3604 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3605 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3611 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3613 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3614 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3615 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3617 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3619 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3621 to:user@elsewhere.com
3623 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3625 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3627 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3629 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3630 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3631 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3634 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3635 from the Received headers in some cases
3637 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3638 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3640 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3642 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3644 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3646 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3647 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3648 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3650 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3651 -------------------------
3653 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3655 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3656 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3657 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3659 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3661 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3662 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3663 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3666 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3668 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3669 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3670 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3671 fixed to avoid this bug.
3673 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3675 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3676 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3678 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3679 ========================
3681 New, general features
3682 ---------------------
3684 Maildir-flag synchronization
3686 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3687 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3696 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3698 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3699 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3700 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3701 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3703 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3704 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3705 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3706 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3709 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3711 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3712 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3713 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3715 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3716 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3718 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3719 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3721 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3722 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3723 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3725 New library features
3726 --------------------
3728 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3730 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3731 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3732 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3733 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3735 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3736 message with the new function:
3738 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3740 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3741 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3742 over all available filenames for a given message.
3744 New command-line features
3745 -------------------------
3747 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3749 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3750 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3751 access to the mail store itself.
3753 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3754 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3755 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3756 name of a script containing:
3758 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3760 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3761 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3767 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3769 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3771 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3773 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3774 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3775 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3776 now produces nothing).
3778 Emacs interface improvements
3779 ----------------------------
3781 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3783 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3785 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3787 Display current thread subject in a header line
3789 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3791 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3793 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3794 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3795 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3796 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3797 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3798 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3799 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3801 Vim interface improvements
3802 --------------------------
3804 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3806 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3807 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3813 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3815 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3816 ========================
3818 New command-line features
3819 -------------------------
3821 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3823 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3824 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3825 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3827 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3828 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3829 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3830 scripts. For example:
3832 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3833 <operations-on> "$file"
3836 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3838 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3839 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3840 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3841 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3842 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3843 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3845 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3847 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3848 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3849 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3850 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3852 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3854 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3855 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3856 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3857 default rather than Bcc.
3859 New library features
3860 --------------------
3862 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3864 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3865 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3870 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3872 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3873 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3874 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3875 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3876 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3877 notmuch customize interface.
3879 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3881 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3882 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3883 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3884 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3886 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3888 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3889 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3890 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3891 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3893 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3895 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3896 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3897 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3898 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3899 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3900 notmuch customize interface.
3902 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3904 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3905 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3906 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3907 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3908 notmuch customize interface.
3910 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3912 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3913 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3914 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3915 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3918 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3920 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3921 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3922 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3925 New build-system features
3926 -------------------------
3928 Various portability fixes have been applied
3930 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3931 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3932 more portable than ever before.
3934 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3936 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3937 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3938 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3940 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3941 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3942 automatically run ldconfig.
3944 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3945 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3946 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3948 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3949 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3950 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3951 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3953 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3955 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3956 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3957 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3958 used in the resulting Makefile.
3960 New test-suite features
3961 -----------------------
3963 New modularization of test suite
3965 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3966 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3967 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3968 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3969 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3970 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3971 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3972 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3974 New testing of emacs interface
3976 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3977 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3978 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3979 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3980 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3981 database via the FCC setting.
3986 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3988 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3989 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3990 persistent error of the form:
3992 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3994 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3995 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3997 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3999 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4000 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4001 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4003 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4005 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4006 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4007 parsing the notmuch results).
4009 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4011 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4014 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4015 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4016 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4021 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4023 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4024 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4025 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4026 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4027 the emacs interface.
4029 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4031 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4032 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4033 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4035 Python-binding fixes
4036 --------------------
4038 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4040 Debian-specific fixes
4041 ---------------------
4043 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4045 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4046 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4047 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4050 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4051 ==========================
4056 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4058 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4059 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4060 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4061 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4063 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4065 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4066 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4067 want notmuch to crash.
4072 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4074 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4075 directory does not exist
4080 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4082 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4083 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4085 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4086 ========================
4088 New command-line features
4089 -------------------------
4091 User-configurable tags for new messages
4093 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4094 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4095 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4096 to specify this value.
4098 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4100 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4101 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4102 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4104 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4106 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4107 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4109 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4111 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4112 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4113 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4114 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4115 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4118 Indication of author names that match a search
4120 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4121 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4122 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4123 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4124 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4125 messages in the thread are listed first.
4127 New: Python bindings
4128 --------------------
4130 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4131 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4132 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4133 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4135 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4136 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4137 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4140 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4141 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4142 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4144 Emacs interface improvements
4145 ----------------------------
4147 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4149 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4150 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4151 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4152 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4153 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4154 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4155 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4156 but without any of the disadvantages).
4158 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4159 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4160 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4163 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4164 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4165 instead running something like:
4167 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4169 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4170 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4171 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4174 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4176 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4177 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4178 tweaked by the user.
4180 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4181 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4182 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4185 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4186 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4187 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4190 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4192 This support currently relies on an external program,
4193 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4194 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4195 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4196 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4197 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4200 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4201 notmuch) is available via:
4203 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4205 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4206 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4207 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4209 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4211 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4212 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4213 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4214 making this automatic in a future release.
4216 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4218 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4219 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4220 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4221 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4222 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4223 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4226 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4228 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4229 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4230 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4232 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4234 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4235 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4236 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4238 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4239 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4240 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4241 other representation.
4243 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4244 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4247 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4249 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4250 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4251 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4253 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4254 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4255 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4257 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4259 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4260 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4261 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4262 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4263 to display the search result.
4265 More flexible handling of header visibility
4267 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4268 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4269 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4270 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4271 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4272 with the 'h' keybinding.
4274 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4275 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4276 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4278 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4280 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4282 Customizable formatting of search results
4284 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4285 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4286 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4288 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4290 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4292 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4297 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4299 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4300 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4301 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4302 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4308 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4310 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4311 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4313 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4315 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4316 accept are now all accepted.
4321 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4323 Better display of output from failed tests
4325 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4326 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4328 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4329 ========================
4331 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4332 detailed release notes this time!
4334 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4335 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4337 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4338 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4339 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4340 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4347 Better guessing of From: header
4349 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4350 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4351 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4352 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4353 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4356 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4358 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4359 guaranteed to match all messages.
4361 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4363 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4364 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4365 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4366 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4367 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4370 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4373 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4374 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4375 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4376 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4381 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4383 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4384 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4385 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4386 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4388 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4390 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4392 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4393 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4394 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4396 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4398 Previously, the user might see:
4400 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4404 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4406 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4407 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4408 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4409 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4411 Emacs client features
4412 ---------------------
4414 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4416 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4417 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4418 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4419 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4420 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4422 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4425 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4426 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4427 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4428 search with the '*' binding.
4430 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4432 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4433 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4436 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4438 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4439 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4440 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4442 Build-system features
4443 ---------------------
4445 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4447 Add support to configure for many standard options
4449 We include actual support for:
4451 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4453 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4455 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4456 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4458 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4459 separate "make install-emacs"
4461 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4463 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4464 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4465 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4467 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4470 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4471 ========================
4473 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4475 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4476 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4478 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4479 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4480 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4481 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4482 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4483 tags from messages in a thread.
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