1 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
2 ===========================
7 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
9 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
14 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
16 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
17 ===========================
22 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
23 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
25 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
26 ===========================
31 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
33 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
34 =========================
39 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
40 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
43 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
44 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
45 the set of headers to be indexed.
47 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
50 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
51 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
52 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
55 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
56 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
57 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
59 Command Line Interface
60 ----------------------
62 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
65 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
67 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
68 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
69 more details about what is included there. This status includes
70 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
75 Optionally check for missing attachements in outgoing messages (see
76 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
78 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
80 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
82 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
84 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
86 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
89 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
91 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
92 and may be removed in a future release.
94 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
100 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
102 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
103 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
108 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
109 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
110 cryptography support.
115 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
116 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
117 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
119 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
120 ===========================
122 Command line interface
123 ----------------------
125 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
126 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
128 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
129 ===========================
134 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
135 by message properties.
140 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
142 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
143 ===========================
148 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
153 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
154 now needed to build this documentation.
156 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
157 ===========================
162 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
163 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
165 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
166 =========================
173 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
174 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
175 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
176 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
177 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
180 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
182 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
183 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
184 correct encoding for such messages.
186 Command Line Interface
187 ----------------------
189 Support relative database paths
191 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
192 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
193 to $HOME of the invoking user.
198 Improve stderr handling
200 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
201 needed on e.g. macOS.
203 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
205 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
210 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
211 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
217 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
218 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
224 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
225 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
228 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
229 =========================
234 Add support for thread:{} queries
236 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
237 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
238 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
240 Command Line Interface
241 ----------------------
243 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
245 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
247 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
249 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
250 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
251 does not have to be available during message receipt.
256 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
262 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
263 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
265 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
266 ===========================
271 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
273 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
274 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
275 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
277 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
279 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
280 related abort in `notmuch show`.
282 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
283 ===========================
288 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
289 better late than never.
292 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
293 =========================
295 Command Line Interface
296 ----------------------
298 Support for re-indexing existing messages
300 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
301 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
302 change the way specific messages are indexed.
304 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
305 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
306 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
308 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
310 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
312 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
314 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
315 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
316 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
317 the setting of `new.tags`.
319 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
321 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
323 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
325 This inserts into the top level folder.
327 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
329 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
331 New option --output=address for notmuch address
333 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
335 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
337 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
338 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
339 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
341 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
346 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
348 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
349 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
350 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
351 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
352 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
353 config set index.decrypt true".
355 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
356 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
357 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
358 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
359 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
360 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
361 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
362 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
364 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
365 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
366 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
367 this feature without considering the security of your index.
372 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
374 Use make-process when available
376 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
377 notmuch command without using temporary files.
382 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
384 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
385 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
386 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
387 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
389 New functions to count files
391 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
392 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
394 New function to remove properties
396 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
397 drop all properties with a common pattern:
398 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
400 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
402 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
403 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
404 possibility of NULL was not documented.
406 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
408 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
409 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
410 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
411 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
412 operator may decide to change from message to message.
419 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
420 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
421 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
427 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
429 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
430 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
432 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
434 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
436 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
438 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
443 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
444 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
446 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
447 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
448 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
449 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
450 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
451 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
456 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
458 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
459 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
460 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
461 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
463 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
464 ===========================
469 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
470 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
473 Command Line Interface
474 ----------------------
476 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
477 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
480 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
481 ===========================
483 Command Line Interface
484 ----------------------
486 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
487 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
492 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
495 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
496 ===========================
501 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
504 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
505 =========================
510 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
512 Skip HTML tags when indexing
514 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
516 Command Line Interface
517 ----------------------
519 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
521 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
526 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
528 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
529 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
532 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
537 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
539 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
540 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
542 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
544 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
545 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
548 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
550 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
552 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
554 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
555 ===========================
557 Command Line Interface
558 ----------------------
560 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
565 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
567 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
568 ===========================
573 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
575 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
576 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
579 Command Line Interface
580 ----------------------
582 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
584 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
586 Fix bug in dump header
588 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
589 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
590 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
595 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
597 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
598 =========================
603 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
605 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
608 Command Line Interface
609 ----------------------
611 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
613 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
614 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
615 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
617 New default output format to 3
619 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
620 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
621 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
622 default format changes.
627 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
629 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
630 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
631 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
632 or tree view to resume.
634 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
635 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
636 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
639 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
640 they were when you postponed in the final message.
644 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
645 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
646 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
647 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
648 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
652 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
653 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
654 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
655 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
656 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
657 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
661 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
662 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
664 Stop display of `application/*` parts
666 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
667 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
668 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
669 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
670 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
671 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
672 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
673 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
676 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
678 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
679 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
680 only tagged the current thread.)
682 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
684 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
685 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
686 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
688 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
690 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
691 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
692 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
693 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
694 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
695 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
696 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
698 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
700 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
701 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
702 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
707 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
709 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
712 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
714 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
717 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
718 ===========================
723 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
725 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
726 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
727 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
730 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
731 ===========================
733 Command Line Interface
734 ----------------------
736 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
741 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
743 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
744 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
745 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
747 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
748 ===========================
753 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
754 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
756 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
757 ===========================
759 Command Line Interface
760 ----------------------
762 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
764 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
765 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
766 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
771 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
773 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
774 ===========================
776 Command Line Interface
777 ----------------------
779 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
784 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
786 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
787 ===========================
792 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
794 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
795 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
796 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
798 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
800 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
802 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
803 ===========================
808 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
810 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
815 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
817 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
818 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
819 the original colours.
821 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
822 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
824 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
826 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
827 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
828 bug, and hence the test.
830 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
831 =========================
833 General (Xapian 1.4+)
834 ---------------------
836 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
838 Support for single argument date: queries
840 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
842 Support for blocking opens
844 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
845 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
847 Support for named queries
849 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
850 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
851 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
858 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
859 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
860 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
861 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
863 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
865 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
870 Support for compile time options
872 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
873 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
876 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
878 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
879 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
880 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
881 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
882 scripts to ignore it.
887 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
889 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
890 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
891 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
893 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
894 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
895 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
896 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
897 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
898 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
899 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
901 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
902 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
905 Make internal address completion customizable
907 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
908 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
909 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
910 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
913 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
915 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
916 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
917 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
918 completion for the current buffer.
920 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
921 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
922 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
926 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
927 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
928 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
929 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
930 will be added instead.
932 Face customization is easier
934 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
935 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
936 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
937 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
939 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
944 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
949 Go bindings moved to contrib
951 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
953 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
955 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
956 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
958 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
960 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
961 ===========================
968 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
969 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
971 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
973 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
975 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
976 ===========================
981 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
983 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
988 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
993 Use `env` to locate perl.
998 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1000 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1002 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1004 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1006 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1007 =========================
1014 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1015 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1017 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1019 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1020 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1021 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1026 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1027 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1028 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1030 Command Line Interface
1031 ----------------------
1033 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1035 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1040 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1045 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1047 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1048 parts are now included in replies.
1050 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1051 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1052 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1053 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1055 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1057 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1059 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1061 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1062 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1063 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1064 forwards only the current message.
1066 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1068 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1069 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1070 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1071 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1072 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1073 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1074 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1075 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1078 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1079 longer generate empty buffers
1081 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1082 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1083 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1084 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1085 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1087 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1089 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1092 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1094 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1097 Address completion improvements
1099 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1100 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1101 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1102 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1103 interactive address completion.
1105 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1107 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1108 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1109 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1114 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1115 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1116 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1122 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1123 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1124 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1125 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1126 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1127 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1129 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1130 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1131 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1132 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1133 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1134 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1136 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1137 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1139 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1140 =========================
1145 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1148 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1150 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1151 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1152 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1154 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1155 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1157 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1158 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1159 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1161 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1163 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1164 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1165 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1166 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1167 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1168 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1173 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1174 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1177 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1178 option to configure.
1180 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1182 Command Line Interface
1183 ----------------------
1185 Database revision tracking
1187 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1188 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1189 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1190 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1192 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1194 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1195 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1196 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1197 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1198 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1199 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1200 manual page for further information.
1205 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1207 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1208 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1210 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1212 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1213 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1214 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1216 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1218 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1220 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1221 customization as well.
1223 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1225 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1227 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1229 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1231 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1232 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1233 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1234 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1236 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1238 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1239 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1240 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1241 this variable to 10000.
1246 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1247 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1249 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1251 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1252 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1253 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1254 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1255 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1256 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1257 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1258 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1259 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1262 Database revision tracking
1264 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1265 query parser and the new function
1266 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1268 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1270 Deprecated functions
1272 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1273 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1274 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1275 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1280 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1282 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1283 ===========================
1288 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1290 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1291 ===========================
1296 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1298 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1299 =========================
1301 Command-Line Interface
1302 ----------------------
1304 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1306 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1307 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1308 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1310 Path to gpg is now configurable
1312 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1313 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1318 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1320 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1325 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1330 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1335 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1337 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1338 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1340 New error logging facility
1342 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1343 output formerly printed to stderr.
1345 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1347 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1349 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1351 Fix for rounding of seconds
1356 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1358 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1359 documentation has been removed.
1361 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1363 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1364 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1369 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1370 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1371 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1376 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1377 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1378 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1379 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1380 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1381 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1384 git checkout config origin/config
1386 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1388 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1389 =========================
1394 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1395 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1396 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1397 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1398 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1399 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1400 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1402 Command-Line Interface
1403 ----------------------
1405 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1407 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1408 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1409 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1410 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1411 script callers should still check the return value.
1413 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1415 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1416 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1417 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1418 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1419 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1420 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1421 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1423 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1425 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1426 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1427 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1429 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1431 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1432 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1433 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1434 currently unmaintained.
1436 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1438 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1439 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1440 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1441 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1443 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1445 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1446 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1447 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1448 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1449 count of duplicate addresses.
1454 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1456 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1457 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1458 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1461 Improved handling of the unread tag
1463 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1464 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1465 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1466 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1467 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1468 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1469 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1471 Expanded default saved search settings
1473 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1474 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1476 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1478 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1479 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1480 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1482 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1484 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1485 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1486 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1487 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1488 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1489 the variable for details.
1494 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1496 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1497 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1498 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1499 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1501 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1503 Previously, library users were required to call
1504 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1505 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1506 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1507 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1508 too out of date for that API.
1510 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1512 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1513 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1514 atomic section will be aborted.
1516 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1517 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1519 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1521 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1522 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1523 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1524 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1525 messages into the same thread.
1530 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1531 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1532 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1533 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1534 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1535 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1540 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1541 from the config file. Use something like:
1545 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1546 "footer": "</body></html>",
1555 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1560 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1561 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1562 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1564 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1565 ===========================
1570 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1572 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1574 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1576 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1577 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1579 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1581 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1584 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1585 ===========================
1587 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1592 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1594 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1596 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1598 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1600 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1606 Use --quick when starting emacs
1608 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1610 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1612 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1614 Command-Line Interface
1615 ----------------------
1617 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1618 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1623 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1625 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1626 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1628 Fix for phrase indexing
1630 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1631 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1632 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1637 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1639 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1640 unintentionally removed.
1642 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1643 =========================
1648 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1649 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1650 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1651 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1652 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1653 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1654 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1655 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1656 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1662 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1664 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1665 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1666 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1667 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1668 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1669 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1670 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1671 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1673 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1675 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1676 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1677 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1678 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1681 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1683 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1684 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1685 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1686 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1687 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1688 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1689 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1694 Notmuch database upgrade
1696 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1697 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1698 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1699 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1700 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1701 released version of Notmuch before now.
1703 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1705 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1706 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1707 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1708 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1710 Message header parsing changes
1712 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1713 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1714 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1715 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1716 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1717 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1719 Command-Line Interface
1720 ----------------------
1722 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1724 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1726 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1728 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1730 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1732 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1733 user does not want it.
1735 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1737 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1738 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1739 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1740 support formatted output.
1742 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1744 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1745 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1746 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1754 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1755 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1756 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1757 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1758 `~/.emacs` with these.
1760 Changed format for saved searches
1762 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1763 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1764 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1765 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1768 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1769 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1770 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1771 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1773 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1774 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1775 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1777 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1778 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1779 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1780 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1781 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1783 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1785 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1786 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1787 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1789 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1791 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1792 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1793 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1794 message had been unread).
1796 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1797 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1798 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1799 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1801 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1802 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1803 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1805 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1806 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1807 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1808 to tags already present.
1812 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1813 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1814 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1815 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1816 these differ from each other.
1817 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
1819 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
1821 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
1822 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
1823 for these Emacs versions.
1825 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
1827 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
1828 newlines before calling notmuch count.
1830 Bug fixes for sender identities
1832 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
1833 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
1834 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
1836 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
1838 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
1839 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
1840 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
1841 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
1843 Reply pushes mark before signature
1845 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
1846 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
1847 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
1849 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
1851 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
1852 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
1858 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
1859 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
1861 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
1862 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
1863 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
1864 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
1866 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
1867 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
1868 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
1869 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
1870 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
1872 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
1874 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
1875 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
1877 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
1878 =========================
1880 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
1881 ---------------------------------------
1883 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
1884 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
1885 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
1886 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
1887 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
1888 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
1889 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
1893 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
1894 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
1896 Command-Line Interface
1897 ----------------------
1899 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
1901 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
1902 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
1903 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
1904 print for each message.
1906 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
1907 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
1908 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
1909 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
1911 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
1913 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
1914 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
1915 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
1917 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
1919 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
1920 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
1921 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
1922 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
1924 `notmuch compact` command
1926 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
1927 functionality through a more convenient interface than
1928 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
1929 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
1930 move the compacted database into place.
1935 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
1937 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
1938 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
1939 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
1940 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
1941 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
1942 and multiple threads.
1944 Using `notmuch-tree`
1946 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
1948 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
1949 search, show and tree mode itself)
1951 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
1954 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
1955 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
1957 Customising `notmuch-tree`
1959 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
1960 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
1961 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
1962 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
1963 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
1964 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
1965 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
1967 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
1969 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
1970 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
1971 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
1972 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
1973 thread when the search was performed.
1975 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
1977 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
1978 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
1979 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
1981 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
1983 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
1984 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
1987 Built-in help improvements
1989 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
1990 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
1991 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
1993 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
1995 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
1996 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
1997 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
1999 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2001 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2002 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2004 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2006 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2007 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2008 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2009 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2011 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2013 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2014 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2015 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2016 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2018 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2020 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2021 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2022 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2024 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2026 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2027 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2028 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2030 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2032 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2033 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2034 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2035 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2036 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2038 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2040 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2041 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2042 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2043 the body part of the message.
2048 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2049 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2050 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2052 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2053 =========================
2055 Command-Line Interface
2056 ----------------------
2058 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2060 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2061 folder and notmuch index.
2063 `notmuch count --batch` option
2065 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2066 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2068 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2070 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2071 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2072 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2075 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2077 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2078 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2079 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2080 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2081 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2084 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2086 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2087 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2089 Top level option to specify configuration file
2091 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2092 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2094 Bash command-line completion
2096 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2097 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2098 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2099 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2100 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2101 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2102 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2103 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2104 bash-completion package.
2106 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2111 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2113 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2114 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2115 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2116 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2117 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2118 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2119 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2120 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2122 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2124 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2125 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2126 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2128 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2130 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2131 previous thread in the search results.
2133 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2135 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2136 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2138 Faster search and show
2140 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2141 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2142 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2143 threads should show faster.
2147 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2148 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2149 in question was now removed from this release.
2154 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2155 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2160 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2162 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2163 ===========================
2168 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2170 Internal test framework changes
2171 -------------------------------
2173 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2174 being unimplemented.
2176 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2177 ===========================
2179 Internal test framework changes
2180 -------------------------------
2182 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2183 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2185 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2186 =========================
2191 Date range search support
2193 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2194 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2195 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2196 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2197 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2200 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2202 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2203 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2204 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2205 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2206 but may be removed in a future release.
2208 Command-Line Interface
2209 ----------------------
2211 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2213 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2214 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2216 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2218 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2219 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2220 officially deprecated.
2222 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2224 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2225 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2226 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2228 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2230 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2231 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2234 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2235 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2236 dump/restore format.
2238 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2240 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2241 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2242 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2244 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2246 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2247 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2248 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2250 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2252 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2253 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2254 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2255 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2260 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2262 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2263 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2264 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2265 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2267 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2269 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2270 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2271 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2272 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2273 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2274 the behavior of this, see
2275 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2276 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2278 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2279 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2280 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2282 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2284 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2285 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2288 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2290 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2291 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2292 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2293 simply displayed in place of the message.
2295 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2297 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2298 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2300 Improved text/calendar content handling
2302 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2303 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2304 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2305 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2307 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2309 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2310 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2311 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2312 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2314 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2316 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2317 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2318 for HTML email containing images.
2320 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2322 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2324 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2326 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2329 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2331 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2332 the point where it was.
2334 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2336 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2337 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2338 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2339 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2340 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2342 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2344 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2345 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2346 thread instead of the message id.
2348 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2349 -----------------------------
2351 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2352 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2353 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2354 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2355 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2356 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2357 further details and installation.
2362 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2364 Internal test framework changes
2365 -------------------------------
2367 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2369 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2370 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2371 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2372 can result in buggy behavior.
2374 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2375 =========================
2380 Maildir tag synchronization
2382 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2383 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2384 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2385 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2386 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2387 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2390 Command-Line Interface
2391 ----------------------
2393 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2394 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2395 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2396 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2397 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2403 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2405 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2407 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2408 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2409 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2411 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2413 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2414 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2415 span multiple lines.
2417 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2419 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2420 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2421 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2422 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2423 inside the result or message.
2425 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2427 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2428 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2430 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2431 user-specified formatting
2433 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2434 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2435 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2436 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2437 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2439 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2440 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2442 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2443 ===========================
2448 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2449 compilation error for this contrib package.
2451 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2452 ===========================
2457 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2459 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2460 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2461 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2462 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2464 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2465 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2468 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2469 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2470 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2471 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2474 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2476 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2479 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2480 =========================
2482 Command-Line Interface
2483 ----------------------
2487 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2488 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2489 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2490 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2492 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2493 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2494 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2495 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2499 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2500 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2502 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2503 tag in your query, for example:
2505 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2507 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2508 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2510 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2511 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2513 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2515 Raw show format changes
2517 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2518 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2519 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2520 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2521 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2522 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2523 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2524 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2526 Listing configuration items
2528 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2534 Changes to tagging interface
2536 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2537 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2538 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2539 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2540 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2541 for more information.
2543 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2544 may need to update in custom configurations.
2546 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2548 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2549 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2550 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2551 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2554 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2555 -----------------------------
2557 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2558 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2559 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2560 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2561 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2562 contrib/ from now on.
2567 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2568 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2570 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2571 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2573 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2574 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2575 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2577 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2578 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2580 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2581 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2582 returning the new database object or directory object.
2589 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2590 compatible with go 1.
2592 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2593 =========================
2595 Command-Line Interface
2596 ----------------------
2600 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2601 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2602 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2603 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2605 Mail store folder/file ignore
2607 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2608 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2609 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2611 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2612 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2614 Unified help and manual pages
2616 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2617 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2620 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2622 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2623 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2631 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2632 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2633 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2634 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2636 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2638 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2639 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2641 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2644 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2645 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2646 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2648 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2650 should be changed to:
2652 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2654 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2656 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2657 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2659 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2661 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2662 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2663 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2664 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2665 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2666 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2670 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2671 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2672 of Mailing List Archives.
2674 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2676 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2677 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2680 Show view archiving key binding changes
2682 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2683 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2684 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2685 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2686 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2689 Support text/calendar MIME type
2691 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2694 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2696 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2697 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2698 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2699 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2701 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2703 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2704 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2705 messages blue by default in the search view.
2709 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2710 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2717 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2720 Python bindings changes
2721 -----------------------
2723 Python 3.2 compatibility
2725 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2727 Added missing unicode conversions
2729 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2730 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2731 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2736 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2738 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2739 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2740 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2741 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2742 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2744 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2745 ===========================
2750 Fix error handling in python bindings
2752 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2753 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2754 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2755 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2757 Quote MML tags in replies
2759 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2760 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2761 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2762 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2763 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2764 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2765 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2766 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2768 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2769 =========================
2771 Command-Line Interface
2772 ----------------------
2776 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2777 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2778 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2779 importing new messages into the database.
2781 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2783 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2784 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2785 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2790 Automatic tag query optimization
2792 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2793 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2794 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2796 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2798 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2799 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2800 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2805 Reduction of memory leaks
2807 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2808 and fixed in this release.
2815 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2816 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2817 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
2820 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2822 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
2823 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
2824 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
2827 Improvements in saved search management
2829 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
2830 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
2831 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
2833 Hooks for notmuch-hello
2835 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
2836 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
2837 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
2839 New face for crypto parts headers
2841 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
2842 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
2843 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
2846 Use space as default thousands separator
2848 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
2849 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
2850 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
2852 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
2853 buttonized id: links
2855 New function notmuch-show-advance
2857 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
2858 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
2859 be bound to SPC with:
2861 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
2863 Various performance improvements
2868 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
2869 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
2872 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
2873 ===========================
2878 Fix crash in python bindings
2880 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
2881 for some, but not all users.
2883 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
2884 ===========================
2889 Fix `--help` argument
2891 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
2892 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
2893 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
2895 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
2896 =========================
2898 New build and testing features
2899 ------------------------------
2901 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
2902 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
2903 prerequisites is improved.
2905 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
2907 New command-line features
2908 -------------------------
2910 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
2912 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
2913 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
2916 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
2918 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
2919 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
2920 favour of using stdout.
2922 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
2924 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
2925 limit the number of results shown.
2927 Add `notmuch count --output` option
2929 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
2930 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
2933 New emacs UI features
2934 ---------------------
2936 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
2938 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
2939 starting with "tag:".
2941 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
2943 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
2944 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
2946 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
2948 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
2950 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
2952 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
2953 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
2958 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
2960 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
2962 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
2963 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
2964 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
2965 requires a database rebuild:
2967 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
2968 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
2970 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
2972 New collection of add-on tools
2973 ------------------------------
2975 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
2976 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
2977 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
2980 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
2982 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
2983 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
2984 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
2986 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
2987 ========================
2989 New, general features
2990 ---------------------
2992 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
2994 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
2995 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
2996 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
2997 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
2998 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3005 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3006 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3008 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3012 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3013 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3014 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3017 Python bindings changes
3018 -----------------------
3020 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3022 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3023 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3024 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3025 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3026 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3027 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3029 Ruby bindings changes
3030 ---------------------
3032 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3033 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3034 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3035 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3040 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3042 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3043 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3045 Reply formatting cleanup
3046 ------------------------
3048 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3049 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3051 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3052 ========================
3054 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3056 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3057 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3058 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3059 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3062 Improved Build system portability
3064 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3065 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3066 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3068 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3070 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3072 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3074 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3075 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3076 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3078 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3079 ========================
3081 Vim interface improvements
3082 --------------------------
3084 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3086 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3087 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3088 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3089 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3090 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3092 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3094 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3095 * fix compose temp file name
3097 Python Bindings changes
3098 -----------------------
3100 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3102 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3103 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3105 Build-System improvements
3106 -------------------------
3108 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3110 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3113 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3114 ==========================
3119 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3121 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3122 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3124 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3125 =======================
3127 New, general features
3128 ---------------------
3130 Folder-based searching
3132 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3133 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3134 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3138 For example, one might use things such as:
3144 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3145 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3147 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3148 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3149 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3150 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3152 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3153 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3154 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3157 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3158 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3160 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3162 Support for PGP/MIME
3164 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3165 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3166 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3168 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3170 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3171 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3173 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3174 notmuch will receive these tags.
3176 New command-line features
3177 -------------------------
3179 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3181 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3182 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3184 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3186 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3187 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3188 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3190 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3192 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3193 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3194 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3195 which parts a signature part applies).
3197 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3199 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3200 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3201 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3202 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3203 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3206 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3208 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3209 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3210 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3211 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3212 by translating it internally to the new call.
3214 Performance improvements
3215 ------------------------
3217 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3219 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3220 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3221 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3223 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3224 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3226 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3228 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3229 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3230 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3232 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3233 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3234 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3235 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3237 Faster initial indexing
3239 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3240 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3241 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3243 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3245 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3246 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3247 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3248 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3250 New emacs-interface features
3251 ----------------------------
3253 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3255 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3256 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3257 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3258 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3259 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3260 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3262 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3264 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3265 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3266 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3267 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3269 User-selectable From address
3271 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3272 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3273 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3274 will prompt for the from address to use.
3276 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3277 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3278 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3280 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3281 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3282 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3285 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3287 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3288 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3290 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3292 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3294 ----- Original Message -----
3296 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3297 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3298 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3299 citations work much like conventional citations.
3301 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3303 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3304 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3305 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3306 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3307 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3309 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3310 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3312 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3314 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3315 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3316 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3318 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3320 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3321 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3322 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3323 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3324 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3326 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3328 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3331 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3333 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3335 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3337 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3340 Vim interface improvements
3341 --------------------------
3343 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3345 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3346 * Implementing archive in show view
3347 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3348 * Add delete commands
3351 Bindings improvements
3352 ---------------------
3354 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3356 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3357 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3359 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3361 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3365 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3366 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3367 `list(Messages)` works now
3368 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3370 These allow, for example:
3372 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3374 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3376 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3382 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3384 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3387 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3389 New build-system features
3390 -------------------------
3392 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3394 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3395 the configure script from some other directory:
3402 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3404 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3405 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3406 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3407 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3408 manual invocation of configure.
3410 New test-suite feature
3411 ----------------------
3413 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3415 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3416 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3417 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3418 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3419 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3422 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3424 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3425 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3426 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3427 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3428 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3429 are updated to take advantage of this.
3431 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3433 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3434 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3435 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3436 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3442 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3444 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3445 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3446 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3448 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3450 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3452 to:user@elsewhere.com
3454 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3456 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3458 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3460 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3461 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3462 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3465 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3466 from the Received headers in some cases
3468 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3469 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3471 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3473 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3475 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3477 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3478 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3479 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3481 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3482 -------------------------
3484 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3486 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3487 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3488 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3490 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3492 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3493 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3494 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3497 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3499 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3500 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3501 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3502 fixed to avoid this bug.
3504 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3506 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3507 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3509 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3510 ========================
3512 New, general features
3513 ---------------------
3515 Maildir-flag synchronization
3517 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3518 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3527 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3529 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3530 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3531 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3532 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3534 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3535 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3536 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3537 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3540 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3542 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3543 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3544 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3546 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3547 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3549 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3550 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3552 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3553 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3554 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3556 New library features
3557 --------------------
3559 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3561 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3562 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3563 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3564 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3566 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3567 message with the new function:
3569 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3571 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3572 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3573 over all available filenames for a given message.
3575 New command-line features
3576 -------------------------
3578 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3580 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3581 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3582 access to the mail store itself.
3584 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3585 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3586 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3587 name of a script containing:
3589 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3591 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3592 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3598 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3600 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3602 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3604 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3605 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3606 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3607 now produces nothing).
3609 Emacs interface improvements
3610 ----------------------------
3612 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3614 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3616 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3618 Display current thread subject in a header line
3620 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3622 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3624 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3625 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3626 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3627 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3628 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3629 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3630 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3632 Vim interface improvements
3633 --------------------------
3635 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3637 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3638 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3644 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3646 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3647 ========================
3649 New command-line features
3650 -------------------------
3652 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3654 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3655 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3656 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3658 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3659 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3660 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3661 scripts. For example:
3663 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3664 <operations-on> "$file"
3667 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3669 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3670 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3671 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3672 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3673 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3674 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3676 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3678 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3679 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3680 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3681 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3683 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3685 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3686 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3687 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3688 default rather than Bcc.
3690 New library features
3691 --------------------
3693 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3695 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3696 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3701 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3703 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3704 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3705 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3706 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3707 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3708 notmuch customize interface.
3710 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3712 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3713 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3714 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3715 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3717 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3719 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3720 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3721 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3722 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3724 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3726 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3727 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3728 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3729 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3730 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3731 notmuch customize interface.
3733 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3735 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3736 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3737 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3738 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3739 notmuch customize interface.
3741 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3743 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3744 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3745 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3746 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3749 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3751 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3752 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3753 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3756 New build-system features
3757 -------------------------
3759 Various portability fixes have been applied
3761 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3762 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3763 more portable than ever before.
3765 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3767 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3768 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3769 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3771 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3772 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3773 automatically run ldconfig.
3775 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3776 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3777 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3779 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3780 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3781 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3782 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3784 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3786 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3787 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3788 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3789 used in the resulting Makefile.
3791 New test-suite features
3792 -----------------------
3794 New modularization of test suite
3796 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3797 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3798 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3799 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3800 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3801 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3802 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3803 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3805 New testing of emacs interface
3807 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3808 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3809 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3810 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3811 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3812 database via the FCC setting.
3817 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
3819 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
3820 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
3821 persistent error of the form:
3823 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
3825 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
3826 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
3828 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
3830 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
3831 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
3832 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
3834 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
3836 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
3837 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
3838 parsing the notmuch results).
3840 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
3842 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
3845 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
3846 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
3847 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
3852 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
3854 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
3855 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
3856 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
3857 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
3858 the emacs interface.
3860 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
3862 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
3863 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
3864 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
3866 Python-binding fixes
3867 --------------------
3869 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
3871 Debian-specific fixes
3872 ---------------------
3874 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
3876 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
3877 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
3878 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
3881 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
3882 ==========================
3887 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
3889 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
3890 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
3891 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
3892 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
3894 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
3896 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
3897 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
3898 want notmuch to crash.
3903 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
3905 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
3906 directory does not exist
3911 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
3913 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
3914 final linking of notmuch would fail.
3916 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
3917 ========================
3919 New command-line features
3920 -------------------------
3922 User-configurable tags for new messages
3924 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
3925 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
3926 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
3927 to specify this value.
3929 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
3931 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
3932 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
3933 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
3935 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
3937 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
3938 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
3940 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
3942 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
3943 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
3944 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
3945 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
3946 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
3949 Indication of author names that match a search
3951 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
3952 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
3953 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
3954 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
3955 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
3956 messages in the thread are listed first.
3958 New: Python bindings
3959 --------------------
3961 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
3962 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
3963 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
3964 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
3966 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
3967 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
3968 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
3971 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
3972 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
3973 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
3975 Emacs interface improvements
3976 ----------------------------
3978 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
3980 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
3981 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
3982 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
3983 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
3984 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
3985 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
3986 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
3987 but without any of the disadvantages).
3989 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
3990 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
3991 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
3994 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
3995 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
3996 instead running something like:
3998 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4000 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4001 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4002 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4005 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4007 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4008 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4009 tweaked by the user.
4011 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4012 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4013 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4016 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4017 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4018 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4021 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4023 This support currently relies on an external program,
4024 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4025 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4026 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4027 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4028 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4031 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4032 notmuch) is available via:
4034 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4036 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4037 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4038 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4040 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4042 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4043 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4044 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4045 making this automatic in a future release.
4047 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4049 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4050 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4051 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4052 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4053 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4054 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4057 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4059 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4060 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4061 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4063 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4065 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4066 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4067 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4069 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4070 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4071 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4072 other representation.
4074 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4075 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4078 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4080 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4081 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4082 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4084 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4085 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4086 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4088 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4090 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4091 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4092 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4093 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4094 to display the search result.
4096 More flexible handling of header visibility
4098 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4099 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4100 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4101 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4102 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4103 with the 'h' keybinding.
4105 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4106 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4107 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4109 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4111 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4113 Customizable formatting of search results
4115 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4116 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4117 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4119 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4121 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4123 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4128 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4130 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4131 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4132 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4133 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4139 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4141 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4142 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4144 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4146 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4147 accept are now all accepted.
4152 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4154 Better display of output from failed tests
4156 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4157 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4159 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4160 ========================
4162 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4163 detailed release notes this time!
4165 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4166 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4168 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4169 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4170 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4171 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4178 Better guessing of From: header
4180 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4181 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4182 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4183 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4184 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4187 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4189 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4190 guaranteed to match all messages.
4192 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4194 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4195 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4196 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4197 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4198 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4201 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4204 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4205 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4206 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4207 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4212 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4214 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4215 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4216 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4217 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4219 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4221 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4223 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4224 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4225 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4227 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4229 Previously, the user might see:
4231 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4235 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4237 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4238 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4239 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4240 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4242 Emacs client features
4243 ---------------------
4245 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4247 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4248 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4249 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4250 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4251 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4253 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4256 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4257 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4258 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4259 search with the '*' binding.
4261 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4263 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4264 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4267 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4269 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4270 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4271 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4273 Build-system features
4274 ---------------------
4276 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4278 Add support to configure for many standard options
4280 We include actual support for:
4282 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4284 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4286 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4287 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4289 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4290 separate "make install-emacs"
4292 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4294 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4295 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4296 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4298 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4301 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4302 ========================
4304 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4306 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4307 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4309 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4310 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4311 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4312 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4313 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4314 tags from messages in a thread.
4321 indent-tabs-mode: nil