1 Notmuch 0.31.4 (2021-02-18)
2 ===========================
7 Fix include bug triggered by glib 2.67.
12 Fix race condition in T568-lib-thread.
14 Notmuch 0.31.3 (2020-12-25)
15 ===========================
20 Fix for exclude tags in notmuch2 bindings.
25 Portability update for T360-symbol-hiding
30 Fix for memory error in notmuch_database_get_config_list
32 Notmuch 0.31.2 (2020-11-08)
33 ===========================
38 Catch one more occurence of "version" in the build system, which
39 caused the file to be regenerated in the release tarball.
41 Notmuch 0.31.1 (2020-11-08)
42 ===========================
47 Fix a memory initialization bug in notmuch_database_get_config_list.
52 Rename file 'version' to 'version.txt'. The old file name conflicted
53 with a C++ header for some compilers.
55 Replace use of coreutils `realpath` in configure.
57 Notmuch 0.31 (2020-09-05)
58 =========================
63 Notmuch now supports Emacs 27.1. You may need to set
64 `mml-secure-openpgp-sign-with-sender` and/or
65 `mml-secure-smime-sign-with-sender` to continue signing messages.
67 The minimum supported major version of GNU Emacs is now 25.1.
69 Add support for moving between threads after notmuch-tree-from-search-thread.
71 New `notmuch-unthreaded` mode (added in Notmuch 0.30)
73 Unthreaded view is a mode where each matching message is shown on a
76 The main key entries to unthreaded view are
78 'u' enter a query to view in unthreaded mode (works in hello,
79 search, show and tree mode)
81 'U' view the current query in unthreaded mode (works from search,
84 Saved searches can also specify that they should open in unthreaded
87 Currently it is not possible to specify the sort order: it will
88 always be newest first.
93 The shell pipeline executed by notmuch-mutt, which symlinked matched
94 files to a maildir for mutt to access is replaced with internal perl
95 processing. This search operation is now more portable, and somewhat
101 Improve exception handling in the library. This should
102 largely eliminate terminations inside the library due to uncaught
103 exceptions or internal errors. No doubt there are a few uncovered
104 code paths still; please report them as bugs.
106 Add `notmuch_message_get_flag_st` and
107 `notmuch_message_has_maildir_flag_st`, and deprecate the existing
108 non-status providing versions.
110 Move memory de-allocation from `notmuch_database_close` to
111 `notmuch_database_destroy`.
113 Handle relative filenames in `notmuch_database_index_file`, as
114 promised in the documentation.
119 Documentation for the python bindings is merged into the main
120 sphinx-doc documentation tree. The merged documentation can be built
121 with e.g. `make sphinx-html`
126 We now support building notmuch against Xapian 1.5 (the current
127 development version).
132 Test suite fixes for compatibility with Emacs 27.1.
137 Man pages are now compressed reproducibly.
139 Notmuch 0.30 (2020-07-10)
140 =========================
145 Handle S/MIME (PKCS#7) messages -- one-part signed messages, encrypted
146 messages, and multilayer messages. Treat them symmetrically to
147 OpenPGP messages. This includes handling protected headers
150 If you're using Notmuch with S/MIME, you currently need to configure
156 Detect and automatically repair a common form of message mangling
157 created by Microsoft Exchange (see index.repaired=mixedup in
158 notmuch-properties(7)).
163 Avoid indexing the legacy-display part of an encrypted message that
164 has protected headers (see
165 index.repaired=skip-protected-headers-legacy-display in
166 notmuch-properties(7)).
171 Drop support for python2, focus on python3.
173 Introduce new CFFI-based python bindings in the python module named
174 "notmuch2". Officially deprecate (but still support) the older
180 Support for Xapian 1.2 is removed. The minimum supported version of
183 Notmuch 0.29.3 (2019-11-27)
184 ===========================
189 Fix for use-after-free in notmuch_config_list_{key,val}.
191 Fix for double close of file in notmuch-dump.
196 Drop python2 support from shipped debian packaging.
198 Notmuch 0.29.2 (2019-10-19)
199 ===========================
204 Fix for file descriptor leak when opening gzipped mail files. Thanks
205 to James Troup for the bug report and the fix.
207 Notmuch 0.29.1 (2019-06-11)
208 ===========================
213 Fix for installation failure with `configure --without-emacs`.
215 Notmuch 0.29 (2019-06-07)
216 =========================
221 Add "body:" field to allow searching for terms that occur only in the
222 message body. Users will need to reindex their mail to take advantage
225 Add support for indexing user specified headers (e.g. List-Id). See
226 notmuch-config(1) for details. This requires reindexing after changing
227 the set of headers to be indexed.
229 Fix bug for searching in some headers for Xapian keywords in quoted
232 Add support for gzip compressed mail messages (/not/ multi-message
233 mboxes); e.g. `gzip -9 $MAIL/archive/giant-message && notmuch new`
234 should work. Note that maildir flag syncing for gzipped messages is
237 Notmuch is now capable of indexing, searching and rendering
238 cryptographically-protected Subject: headers of the form produced by
239 Enigmail and K-9 mail in encrypted messages.
241 Command Line Interface
242 ----------------------
244 `notmuch show` now supports --body=false and --include-html with
247 Fix several performance problems with `notmuch reindex`.
249 `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now emit per-message cryptographic
250 status in their json and sexp output formats. See devel/schemata for
251 more details about what is included there. This status includes
252 information about cryptographic protections for the Subject header.
257 Optionally check for missing attachments in outgoing messages (see
258 function `notmuch-mua-attachment-check`).
260 Bind `B` to browse URLs in current message.
262 Bind `g` to refresh the current notmuch buffer.
264 Editing a message as new now includes an FCC header.
266 Forwarded messages are now tagged as +forwarded (customizable).
268 Add references header to link forwarded message to thread of original
271 The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
273 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
274 and may be removed in a future release.
276 Notmuch-emacs documentation is somewhat expanded. More contributions
282 Notmuch release tarballs are now compressed with `xz`.
284 We now provide conventional detached signatures of the release
285 tarballs in addition to the signed `sha256sum` files.
290 Support for GMime 2.6 is removed. The minimum supported version of
291 GMime is now 3.0.3. GMime also needs to have been compiled with
292 cryptography support.
297 If either GNU parallel or moreutils parallel is installed, the tests
298 in the test suite will now be run in parallel (one per available
299 core). This can be disabled with NOTMUCH_TEST_SERIALIZE=1.
301 Notmuch 0.28.4 (2019-05-05)
302 ===========================
304 Command line interface
305 ----------------------
307 Fix a spurious error when using `notmuch show --raw` on messages whose
308 size is a multiple of the internal buffer size.
310 Notmuch 0.28.3 (2019-03-05)
311 ===========================
316 Fix a bug with the internal data structure _notmuch_string_map_t used
317 by message properties.
322 Serialize calls to sphinx-build to avoid race condition.
324 Notmuch 0.28.2 (2019-02-17)
325 ===========================
330 Invoke gpg with --batch and --no-tty.
335 Fix documentation build with Python 3.7. Note that Python >= 3.3 is
336 now needed to build this documentation.
338 Notmuch 0.28.1 (2019-02-01)
339 ===========================
344 `configure` no longer uses the special variable BASH, as this causes
345 problems on systems where /bin/sh is bash.
347 Notmuch 0.28 (2018-10-12)
348 =========================
355 The threading algorithm has been updated to consider all references,
356 not just the heuristically chosen parent (e.g. when that parent is
357 not in the database). The heuristic for choosing a parent message
358 has also been updated to again consider the In-Reply-To header, if
359 it looks sensible. Re-indexing might be needed to take advantage of
362 Handle mislabelled Windows-1252 parts
364 Messages that contain Windows-1252 are apparently frequently
365 mislabelled as ISO 8859-1. Use GMime functionality to apply the
366 correct encoding for such messages.
368 Command Line Interface
369 ----------------------
371 Support relative database paths
373 Database paths (i.e. parameters to `notmuch config set
374 database.path`) without a leading `/` are now interpreted relative
375 to $HOME of the invoking user.
380 Improve stderr handling
382 Add a real sentinel process to clean up stderr buffer. This is
383 needed on e.g. macOS.
385 Call `notmuch-mua-send-hook` hooks when sending a message
387 This hook was documented, but not functional for a very long time.
392 The zsh completion has been updated to cover most of the notmuch
393 CLI. Internally it uses regexp searching, so needs at least Notmuch
399 The build system now installs notmuch-mutt and notmuch-emacs-mua with
400 absolute shebangs, following the conventions of most Linux
406 Fix certain tests that were failing with GMime 2.6. Users are reminded
407 that support for versions of GMime before 3.0.3 has been deprecated
410 Notmuch 0.27 (2018-06-13)
411 =========================
416 Add support for thread:{} queries
418 Queries of the form `thread:{foo} and thread:{bar}` match threads
419 containing (possibly distinct) messages matching foo and bar. See
420 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for details.
422 Command Line Interface
423 ----------------------
425 Add the --full-scan option to `notmuch new`
427 This option disables mtime based optimization of scanning for new mail.
429 Add new --decrypt=stash option for `notmuch show`
431 This facilitates a workflow for encrypted messages where message
432 cleartext are indexed on first read, but the user's decryption key
433 does not have to be available during message receipt.
438 An initial manual for `notmuch-emacs` is now installed by default (in
444 As of this release, support for versions of Xapian before 1.4.0 is
445 deprecated, and may disappear in a future release of notmuch.
447 Notmuch 0.26.2 (2018-04-28)
448 ===========================
453 Work around Xapian bug with `get_mset(0,0, x)`
455 This causes aborts in `_notmuch_query_count_documents` on
456 e.g. Fedora 28. The underlying bug is fixed in Xapian commit
457 f92e2a936c1592, and will be fixed in Xapian 1.4.6.
459 Make thread indexing more robust against reference loops
461 Choose a thread root by date in case of reference loops. Fix a
462 related abort in `notmuch show`.
464 Notmuch 0.26.1 (2018-04-02)
465 ===========================
470 Bump the library minor version. This should have happened in 0.26, but
471 better late than never.
474 Notmuch 0.26 (2018-01-09)
475 =========================
477 Command Line Interface
478 ----------------------
480 Support for re-indexing existing messages
482 There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
483 messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
484 change the way specific messages are indexed.
486 Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
487 archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
488 depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
490 Improved error reporting in notmuch new
492 Give more details when reporting certain Xapian exceptions.
494 Support maildir synced tags in `new.tags`
496 Tags `draft`, `flagged`, `passed`, and `replied` are now supported
497 in `new.tags`. The tag `unread` is still special in the presence of
498 maildir syncing, and will be added for files in `new/` regardless of
499 the setting of `new.tags`.
501 Support /regex/ in new.ignore
503 Files and directories may be ignored based on regular expressions.
505 Allow `notmuch insert --folder=""`
507 This inserts into the top level folder.
509 Strip trailing '/' from folder path for notmuch insert
511 This prevents a potential problem with duplicated database records.
513 New option --output=address for notmuch address
515 Make `notmuch show` more robust against deleting duplicate files
517 The option --decrypt now takes an explicit argument
519 The --decrypt option to `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` now takes
520 an explicit argument. If you were used to invoking `notmuch show
521 --decrypt`, you should switch to `notmuch show --decrypt=true`.
523 Boolean and keyword arguments now take a `--no-` prefix
528 Indexing cleartext of encrypted e-mails
530 It's now possible to include the cleartext of encrypted e-mails in
531 the notmuch index. This makes it possible to search your encrypted
532 e-mails with the same ease as searching cleartext. This can be done
533 on a per-message basis by passing --decrypt=true to indexing
534 commands (new, insert, reindex), or by default by running "notmuch
535 config set index.decrypt true".
537 Encrypted messages whose cleartext is indexed will typically also
538 have their session keys stashed as properties associated with the
539 message. Stashed session keys permit rapid rendering of long
540 encrypted threads, and disposal of expired encryption-capable keys.
541 If for some reason you want cleartext indexing without stashed
542 session keys, use --decrypt=nostash for your indexing commands (or
543 run "notmuch config set index.decrypt nostash"). See `index.decrypt`
544 in notmuch-config(1) for more details.
546 Note that stashed session keys permit reconstruction of the
547 cleartext of the encrypted message itself, and the contents of the
548 index are roughly equivalent to the cleartext as well. DO NOT USE
549 this feature without considering the security of your index.
554 Guard against concurrent searches in notmuch-tree
556 Use make-process when available
558 This allows newer Emacs to separate stdout and stderr from the
559 notmuch command without using temporary files.
564 Indexing files with duplicate message-id
566 Files with duplicate message-id's are now indexed, and searchable
567 via terms and phrases. There are known issues related to
568 presentation of results and regular-expression search, but in
569 principle no mail file should be completely unsearchable now.
571 New functions to count files
573 Two new functions in the libnotmuch API:
574 `notmuch_message_count_files`, and `notmuch_thread_get_total_files`.
576 New function to remove properties
578 A new function was added to the libnotmuch API to make it easier to
579 drop all properties with a common pattern:
580 `notmuch_message_remove_all_properties_with_prefix`
582 Change of return value of `notmuch_thread_get_authors`
584 In certain corner cases, `notmuch_thread_get_authors` previously
585 returned NULL. This has been replaced by an empty string, since the
586 possibility of NULL was not documented.
588 Transition `notmuch_database_add_message` to `notmuch_database_index_file`
590 When indexing an e-mail message, the new
591 `notmuch_database_index_file` function is the preferred form, and
592 the old `notmuch_database_add_message` is deprecated. The new form
593 allows passing a set of options to the indexing engine, which the
594 operator may decide to change from message to message.
601 The test suite now works properly with out-of-tree builds, i.e. with
602 separate source and build directories. The --root option to tests
603 has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
609 Python bindings specific Debian packaging is removed
611 The bindings have been build by the top level Debian packaging for a
612 long time, and `bindings/python/debian` has bit-rotted.
614 Open mail files in binary mode when using Python 3
616 This avoids certain encoding related crashes under Python 3.
618 Add python bindings for `notmuch_database_{get,set}_config*`
620 Optional `decrypt_policy` flag is available for notmuch.database().index_file()
625 nmbug's internal version increases to 0.3 in this notmuch release.
626 User-facing changes with this notmuch release:
628 * Accept failures to unset `core.worktree` in `clone`, which allows
629 nmbug to be used with Git 2.11.0 and later.
630 * Auto-checkout in `clone` if it wouldn't clobber existing content,
631 which makes the initial clone more convenient.
632 * Only error for invalid diff lines in `tags/`, which allows for
633 `README`s and similar in nmbug repositories.
638 New man page: notmuch-properties(7)
640 This new page to the manual describes common conventions for how
641 properties are used by libnotmuch, the CLI, and associated programs.
642 External projects that use properties are encouraged to claim their
643 properties and conventions here to avoid collisions.
645 Notmuch 0.25.3 (2017-12-08)
646 ===========================
651 Extend mitigation (disabling handling x-display in text/enriched) for
652 Emacs bug #28350 to Emacs versions before 24.4 (i.e. without
655 Command Line Interface
656 ----------------------
658 Correctly report userid validity. Fix test suite failure for GMime >=
659 3.0.3. This change raises the minimum supported version of GMime 3.x
662 Notmuch 0.25.2 (2017-11-05)
663 ===========================
665 Command Line Interface
666 ----------------------
668 Fix segfault in notmuch-show crypto handling when compiled against
669 GMime 2.6; this was a regression in 0.25.
674 Support for GMime before 3.0 is now deprecated, and will be removed in
677 Notmuch 0.25.1 (2017-09-11)
678 ===========================
683 Disable handling x-display in text/enriched messages. Mitigation for
686 Notmuch 0.25 (2017-07-25)
687 =========================
692 Add regexp searching for mid, paths, and tags.
694 Skip HTML tags when indexing
696 In particular this avoids indexing large inline images.
698 Command Line Interface
699 ----------------------
701 Bash completion is now installed to /usr/share by default.
703 Allow space as separator for keyword arguments.
708 Support for stashing message timestamp in show and tree views
710 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-date` with a prefix argument
711 stashes the unix timestamp of the current message instead of
714 Don't use 'function' as variable name, workaround emacs bug 26406.
719 Add workaround for date parsing of bad input in older GMime
721 In certain circumstances, older GMime libraries could return
722 negative numbers when parsing syntactically invalid dates.
724 Replace deprecated functions with status returning versions
726 API of notmuch_query_{search,count}_{messages,threads} has
727 changed. notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude now returns a status
730 Add support for building against GMime 3.0.
732 Rename libutil.a to libnotmuch_util.a.
734 libnotmuch SONAME is incremented to libnotmuch.so.5.
736 Notmuch 0.24.2 (2017-06-01)
737 ===========================
739 Command Line Interface
740 ----------------------
742 Fix output from `notmuch dump --include=properties` to not include tags.
747 Fix filename stashing in tree view.
749 Notmuch 0.24.1 (2017-04-01)
750 ===========================
755 Fix regressions in non-regexp search for `from:` and `subject:`
757 The regexp search code in 0.24 introduced a regression in the
758 handling of empty queries and wildcards. These are both corrected in
761 Command Line Interface
762 ----------------------
764 Fix several memory leaks in `notmuch show`
766 Update NEWS for 0.24 to mention schema changes
768 Fix bug in dump header
770 The previous version of the dump header failed to mention the
771 inclusion of tags. This fix bumps the version number of the dump
772 format to 3. There are no other changes to the format.
777 Fix a read-after-free in the library.
779 Notmuch 0.24 (2017-03-12)
780 =========================
785 Regular expression searches supported for `from:` and `subject:`
787 This requires recent Xapian (1.4+) See notmuch-search-terms(7) for
790 Command Line Interface
791 ----------------------
793 Run external `notmuch-` prefixed commands as subcommands
795 You can now add your own `notmuch-` prefixed commands in PATH, and
796 have notmuch run them as if they were notmuch commands. See the
797 `notmuch(1)` man page for details
799 New default output format to 3
801 See devel/schemata for details. Users of the structured output
802 format are reminded of the `--format-version` argument to `notmuch
803 show` and `notmuch search` which can prevent breakage when the
804 default format changes.
809 Postpone and resume messages in `notmuch-message-mode` (composition)
811 Notmuch now has built in support for postponing, saving and resuming
812 messages. The default bindings are C-x C-s to save a draft, C-c C-p
813 to postpone a draft (save and exit compose buffer), and "e" in show
814 or tree view to resume.
816 Draft messages are tagged with `notmuch-draft-tags` (draft by
817 default) so you may wish to add that to the excluded tags list. When
818 saving a previously saved draft message the earlier draft gets
821 Note that attachments added before postponing will be included as
822 they were when you postponed in the final message.
826 It is now possible to save the list of address completions for
827 notmuch's internal completion between runs of emacs. This makes the
828 first calls to address completion much better and faster. For
829 privacy reasons it is disabled by default, to enable set or
830 customize `notmuch-address-save-filename`.
834 It is now possible to configure tagging shortcuts (with an interface
835 like notmuch jump). For example (by default) k u will remove the
836 unread tag, and k s will add a tag "spam" and remove the inbox
837 tag. Pressing k twice will do the reverse operation so, for example,
838 k k s removes the spam tag and adds the inbox tag. See the customize
839 variable `notmuch-tagging-keys` for more information.
843 It is now possible to refresh all notmuch buffers to reflect the
844 current state of the database with a single command, `M-=`.
846 Stop display of `application/*` parts
848 By default gnus displays all `application/*` parts such as
849 application/zip in the message buffer. This has several undesirable
850 effects for notmuch (security, triggering errors etc). Notmuch now
851 overrides this and does not display them by default. If you have
852 customized `mm-inline-override-types` then we assume you know what
853 you want and do not interfere; if you do want to stop the display of
854 `application/*` add `application/*` to your customization. If you want
855 to allow `application/*` then set `mm-inline-override-types` to
858 Small change in the api for notmuch-search-tag
860 When `notmuch-search-tag` is called non-interactively and the region
861 is set, then it only tags the threads in the region. (Previously it
862 only tagged the current thread.)
864 Bugfix for sending messages with very long headers
866 Previously emacs didn't fold very long headers when sending which
867 could cause the MTA to refuse to send the message. This makes sure
868 it does fold any long headers so the message is RFC compliant.
870 `notmuch emacs-mua` command installed with the Emacs interface
872 We've carried a `notmuch-emacs-mua` script in the source tree for
873 quite some time. It can be used to launch the Notmuch Emacs
874 interface from the command line in many different ways. Starting
875 with this release, it will be installed with the Emacs
876 interface. With the new external subcommand support, the script
877 transparently becomes a new notmuch command. See the
878 `notmuch-emacs-mua(1)` man page for details.
880 Notmuch Emacs desktop integration
882 The desktop integration file will now be installed with the Notmuch
883 Emacs interface, adding a Notmuch menu item and configuration to
884 allow the user to set up Notmuch Emacs as the `mailto:` URL handler.
889 `notmuch_query_count_messages` is now non-destructive
891 Internally the implementation of excludes has changed to make this
894 Improved handling of DatabaseModifiedError
896 Previously uncaught exceptions reading message metadata are now
899 Notmuch 0.23.7 (2017-02-28)
900 ===========================
905 Drop use of gpgconf --create-socketdir. Move $GNUPGHOME to /tmp.
907 It turns out the hardcoded use of /run/user in gpg doesn't work out
908 that well in some environments. The more low tech fix is to move all
909 of $GNUPGHOME to somewhere where we can control the length of the
912 Notmuch 0.23.6 (2017-02-27)
913 ===========================
915 Command Line Interface
916 ----------------------
918 Fix read-after-free bug in `notmuch new`.
923 Use gpgconf --create-socketdir if available.
925 GnuPG has a facility to use sockets in /run or /var/run to avoid
926 problems with long socket paths, but this is not enabled by default
927 for GNUPGHOME other than $HOME/.gnupg. Enable it, if possible.
929 Notmuch 0.23.5 (2017-01-09)
930 ===========================
935 Fix quoting bug in configure. This had introduced a RUNPATH into the
936 notmuch binary in cases where it was not not needed.
938 Notmuch 0.23.4 (2016-12-24)
939 ===========================
941 Command Line Interface
942 ----------------------
944 Improve error handling in notmuch insert
946 Database lock errors no longer prevent message file delivery to the
947 filesystem. Certain errors during `notmuch insert` most likely to
948 be temporary return EX_TEMPFAIL.
953 Restore autoload cookie for notmuch-search.
955 Notmuch 0.23.3 (2016-11-27)
956 ===========================
958 Command Line Interface
959 ----------------------
961 Treat disappearing files during notmuch new as non-fatal.
966 Fix incompatibility (related to signature size) with gnupg 2.1.16.
968 Notmuch 0.23.2 (2016-11-20)
969 ===========================
974 Fix notmuch-interesting-buffer and notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers.
976 notmuch-tree-mode and notmuch-message-mode buffers are now
977 considered interesting by `notmuch-interesting-buffer` and
978 `notmuch-cycle-notmuch-buffers`.
980 Restore compatibility with Emacs 23.
982 Notmuch support for Emacs 23 is now deprecated.
984 Notmuch 0.23.1 (2016-10-23)
985 ===========================
990 Require Xapian >= 1.2.6
992 The ifdef branch for older Xapian (pre-compact API) had bit-rotted.
997 Fix default colours for unread and flagged messages
999 In 0.23 the default colours for unread and flagged messages in
1000 search view were accidentally swapped. This release returns them to
1001 the original colours.
1003 A related change in 0.23 broke the customize widget for
1004 notmuch-search-line-faces. This is now fixed.
1006 Fix test failure with Emacs 25.1
1008 A previously undiscovered jit-lock related bug was exposed by Emacs
1009 25, causing a notmuch-show mode test to fail. This release fixes the
1010 bug, and hence the test.
1012 Notmuch 0.23 (2016-10-03)
1013 =========================
1015 General (Xapian 1.4+)
1016 ---------------------
1018 Compiling against Xapian 1.4 enables several new features.
1020 Support for single argument date: queries
1022 `date:<expr>` is equivalent to `date:<expr>..<expr>`.
1024 Support for blocking opens
1026 When opening a database notmuch by default will wait for another
1027 process to release a write lock, rather than returning an error.
1029 Support for named queries
1031 Named queries (also known as 'saved searches') can be defined with a
1032 `query:name` format. The expansion of these queries is stored in the
1033 database and they can be used from any notmuch client.
1038 Message property API
1040 libnotmuch now supports the attachment of arbitrary key-value pairs
1041 to messages. These can be used by various tools to manage their
1042 private data without polluting the user tag space. They also support
1043 iteration of values with the same key or same key prefix.
1045 Bug fix for `notmuch_directory_set_mtime`
1047 Update cached mtime to match on-disk mtime.
1052 Support for compile time options
1054 A group of `built_with` keys is now supported for notmuch
1055 config. Initial keys in this group are `compact`, `field_processor`,
1058 Dump/Restore support for configuration information and properties
1060 Any configuration information stored in the database (initially just
1061 named queries) is dumped and restored. Similarly any properties
1062 attached to messages are also dumped and restored. Any new
1063 information in the dump format is prefixed by '#' to allow existing
1064 scripts to ignore it.
1069 Make notmuch-message-mode use insert for fcc
1071 Notmuch-message-mode now defaults to using notmuch insert for
1072 fcc. The old file based fcc behaviour can be restored by setting the
1073 defcustom `notmuch-maildir-use-notmuch-insert` to nil.
1075 When using notmuch insert, `notmuch-fcc-dirs` must be a subdirectory
1076 of the mailstore (absolute paths are not permitted) followed by any
1077 tag changes to be applied to the inserted message. The tag changes
1078 are applied after the default tagging for new messages. For example
1079 setting the header to "sentmail -inbox +sent" would insert the
1080 message in the subdirectory sentmail of the mailstore, add the tag
1081 "sent", and not add the (normally added) "inbox" tag.
1083 Finally, if the insert fails (e.g. if the database is locked) the
1084 user is presented with the option to retry, ignore, or edit the
1087 Make internal address completion customizable
1089 There is a new defcustom `notmuch-address-internal-completion` which
1090 controls how the internal completion works: it allows the user to
1091 choose whether to match on messages the user sent, or the user
1092 received, and to filter the messages used for the match, for example
1095 Allow internal address completion on an individual basis
1097 There is a new function `notmuch-address-toggle-internal-completion`
1098 (by default it has no keybinding) which allows users who normally
1099 use an external completion command to use the builtin internal
1100 completion for the current buffer.
1102 Alternatively, if the user has company-mode enabled, then the user
1103 can use company mode commands such as `company-complete` to
1104 activate the builtin completion for an individual completion.
1108 The function `notmuch-show-resend-message` (bound to `b` in show
1109 and tree modes) will (attempt to) send current message to new
1110 recipients. The headers of the message won't be altered (e.g. `To:`
1111 may point to yourself). New `Resent-To:`, `Resent-From:` and so on
1112 will be added instead.
1114 Face customization is easier
1116 New faces `notmuch-tag-unread`, `notmuch-tag-flagged`,
1117 `notmuch-tag-deleted`, `notmuch-tag-added`,
1118 `notmuch-search-flagged-face` and `notmuch-search-unread-face` are
1119 now used by default. Customize `notmuch-faces` to modify them.
1121 Omit User-Agent header by default when sending mail
1126 Add support for `notmuch_database_get_all_tags`
1131 Go bindings moved to contrib
1133 Add support for `notmuch_threads_t` and `notmuch_thread_t`
1135 Fixed constant values so they are not all zero anymore
1137 Previously, it was impossible to open writable database handles,
1138 because `DATABASE_MODE_READ_ONLY` and `DATABASE_MODE_READ_WRITE` were
1140 The same issue occurred with sort modes.
1142 Notmuch 0.22.2 (2016-09-08)
1143 ===========================
1150 Have gdb write to a log file instead of stdout, hiding some more
1151 (harmless) stderr chatter which causes test failures.
1153 Hardcode fingerprint in PGP/MIME tests
1155 Make the tests more robust against changing GnuPG output formats.
1157 Notmuch 0.22.1 (2016-07-19)
1158 ===========================
1163 Correct the definition of `LIBNOTMUCH_CHECK_VERSION`.
1165 Document the (lack of) operations permitted on a closed database.
1170 Fix race condition in dump / restore tests.
1175 Use `env` to locate perl.
1180 Tell `message-mode` mode that outgoing messages are mail
1182 This makes message-mode configuration behave more predictably.
1184 Respect charset of MIME parts when reading them
1186 Fix previous assumption that everyone uses UTF-8.
1188 Notmuch 0.22 (2016-04-26)
1189 =========================
1196 Notmuch should now build (and the test suite should pass) on recent
1197 releases of Xapian 1.3.x. It has been tested with Xapian 1.3.5.
1199 Limited support for S/MIME messages
1201 Signature verification is supported, but not decryption. S/MIME
1202 signature creation and S/MIME encryption are supported via built-in
1203 support in Emacs. S/MIME support is not extensively tested at this
1208 Fix for threading bug involving deleting and re-adding
1209 messages. Fix for case-sensitive content disposition headers. Fix
1210 handling of 1 character directory names at top level.
1212 Command Line Interface
1213 ----------------------
1215 `notmuch show` now supports verifying S/MIME signatures
1217 This support relies on an appropriately configured `gpgsm`.
1222 Drop dependency on "pkg-config emacs".
1227 Notmuch replies now include all parts shown in the show view
1229 There are two main user visible changes. The first is that rfc822
1230 parts are now included in replies.
1232 The second change is that part headers are now included in the reply
1233 buffer to provide visible separation of the parts. The choice of
1234 which part headers to show is customizable via the variable
1235 `notmuch-mua-reply-insert-header-p-function`.
1237 Filtering or Limiting messages is now bound to `l` in the search view
1239 This binding now matches the analogous binding in show view.
1241 `F` forwards all open messages in a thread
1243 When viewing a thread of messages, the new binding `F` can be used
1244 to generate a new outgoing message which forwards all of the open
1245 messages in the thread. This is analogous to the `f` binding, which
1246 forwards only the current message.
1248 Preferred content type can be determined from the message content
1250 More flexibility in choosing which sub-part of a
1251 multipart/alternative part is initially shown is available by
1252 setting `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a function
1253 that returns a list of discouraged types. The function so specified
1254 is passed the message as an argument and can examine the message
1255 content to determine which content types should be discouraged. This
1256 is in addition to the current capabilities (i.e. setting
1257 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` to a list of discouraged
1260 When viewing a thread ("show" mode), queries that match no messages no
1261 longer generate empty buffers
1263 Should an attempt be made to view the thread corresponding to a
1264 query that matches no messages, a warning message is now displayed
1265 and the terminal bell rung rather than displaying an empty buffer
1266 (or, in some cases, displaying an empty buffer and throwing an
1267 error). This also affects re-display of the current thread.
1269 Handle S/MIME signatures in emacs
1271 The emacs interface is now capable making and verifying S/MIME
1274 `notmuch-message-address-insinuate` is now a no-op
1276 This reduces the amount of interference with non-notmuch uses of
1279 Address completion improvements
1281 An external script is no longer needed for address completion; if
1282 you previously configured one, customize the variable
1283 `notmuch-address-command` to try the internal completion. If
1284 `company-mode` is available, notmuch uses it by default for
1285 interactive address completion.
1287 Test and experiment with the emacs MUA available in source tree
1289 `./devel/try-emacs-mua` runs emacs and fills the window with
1290 information how to try the MUA safely. Emacs is configured to use
1291 the notmuch (lisp) files located in `./emacs` directory.
1296 New `notmuch-report(1)` and `notmuch-report.json(5)` man pages
1297 describe `notmuch-report` and its JSON configuration file. You can
1298 build these files by running `make` in the `devel/nmbug/doc`
1304 Renamed from `nmbug-status`. This script generates reports based on
1305 notmuch queries, and doesn't really have anything to do with nmbug,
1306 except for sharing the `NMBGIT` environment variable. The new name
1307 focuses on the script's action, instead of its historical association
1308 with the nmbug workflow. This should make it more discoverable for
1309 users looking for generic notmuch reporting tools.
1311 The default configuration file name (extracted from the `config`
1312 branch of `NBMGIT` has changed from `status-config.json` to
1313 `notmuch-report.json` so it is more obviously associated with the
1314 report-generating script. The configuration file also has a new
1315 `meta.message-url` setting, which is documented in
1316 `notmuch-report.json(5)`.
1318 `notmuch-report` now wraps query phrases in parentheses when and-ing
1319 them together, to avoid confusion about clause grouping.
1321 Notmuch 0.21 (2015-10-29)
1322 =========================
1327 Notmuch now requires gmime >= 2.6.7. The gmime 2.4 series is no longer
1330 Database revision tracking: `lastmod:` queries
1332 Each message now has a metadata revision number that increases with
1333 every tagging operation. See the discussion of `lastmod:` in
1334 `notmuch-search-terms(7)` for more information.
1336 Date queries now support `date:<expr>..!` shorthand for
1337 `date:<expr>..<expr>`
1339 You can use, for example, `date:yesterday..!` to match from the
1340 beginning of yesterday to the end of yesterday. For further details,
1341 please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page.
1343 Notmuch database upgrade to support `lastmod:` queries
1345 The above mentioned `lastmod:` prefix. This will be done
1346 automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new` is
1347 run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1348 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1349 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1350 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1355 The ruby bindings are now built as part of the main notmuch build
1356 process. This can be disabled with the `--without-ruby` option to
1359 Building the documentation can be disabled with the `--without-docs`
1360 option to configure.
1362 Skipped individual tests are no longer considered as failures.
1364 Command Line Interface
1365 ----------------------
1367 Database revision tracking
1369 Two new options were added to support revision tracking. A global
1370 option "--uuid" (`notmuch(1)`) was added for to detect counter
1371 rollover and reinitialization, and `notmuch-count(1)` gained a
1372 `--lastmod` option to query database revision tracking data.
1374 The `notmuch address` command supports new deduplication schemes
1376 `notmuch address` has gained a new `--deduplicate` option to specify
1377 how the results should be deduplicated, if at all. The alternatives
1378 are `no` (do not deduplicate, useful for processing the results with
1379 external tools), `mailbox` (deduplicate based on the full, case
1380 sensitive name and email address), and `address` (deduplicate based
1381 on the case insensitive address part). See the `notmuch-address`
1382 manual page for further information.
1387 `notmuch-emacs-version` is used in `User-Agent` header
1389 The value of recently introduced variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is
1390 now used as a part of `User-Agent` header when sending emails.
1392 Removed `notmuch-version` function by renaming it to `notmuch-cli-version`
1394 With existing variable `notmuch-emacs-version` the accompanied
1395 function which retrieves the version of `notmuch-command` is
1396 better named as `notmuch-cli-version`.
1398 Query input now supports completion for "is:<tag>"
1400 New message composition mode: `notmuch-compose-mode`
1402 This is mainly to fix fcc handling, but may be useful for user
1403 customization as well.
1405 Allow filtering of search results in `notmuch-show`
1407 Add function to rerun current tree-view search in search mode
1409 Bug fix for replying to encrypted messages in `notmuch-tree` mode
1411 Allow saved searched to specify tree view rather than search view
1413 Applies to saved searches run from `notmuch-hello`, or by a keyboard
1414 shortcut (`notmuch-jump`). Can be set in the customize interface, or
1415 by adding :search-type tree to the appropriate saved search plist in
1416 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1418 Increase maximum size of rendered text parts
1420 The variable `notmuch-show-max-text-part-size` controls the maximum
1421 size (in bytes) which is automatically rendered. This may make
1422 rendering large threads slower. To get the previous behaviour set
1423 this variable to 10000.
1428 The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
1429 `notmuch_database_{open, create}`
1431 New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
1433 Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
1434 database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
1435 document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
1436 encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
1437 `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
1438 if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
1439 potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
1440 fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
1441 deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
1444 Database revision tracking
1446 Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
1447 query parser and the new function
1448 `notmuch_database_get_revision`. For the latter, see `notmuch(3)`.
1450 New status code returning API for n_query_count_{messages,threads}
1452 Deprecated functions
1454 `notmuch_query_search_threads`, `notmuch_query_search_messages`,
1455 `notmuch_query_count_messages`, and `notmuch_query_count_threads`
1456 are all deprecated as of this release. Clients are encouraged to
1457 transition to the `_st` variants supporting better error reporting.
1462 `nmbug-status` now supports specifying the sort order for each view.
1464 Notmuch 0.20.2 (2015-06-27)
1465 ===========================
1470 Bug fix for marking messages read in `notmuch-tree` mode.
1472 Notmuch 0.20.1 (2015-06-01)
1473 ===========================
1478 Work around apparent gdb bug on arm64.
1480 Notmuch 0.20 (2015-05-31)
1481 =========================
1483 Command-Line Interface
1484 ----------------------
1486 There is a new `mimetype:` search prefix
1488 The new `mimetype:` search prefix allows searching for the
1489 content-type of attachments, which is now indexed. See the
1490 `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details.
1492 Path to gpg is now configurable
1494 On systems with multiple versions of gpg, you can tell
1495 notmuch which one to use by setting `crypto.gpg_path`
1500 Avoid rendering large text attachments.
1502 Improved rendering of CID references in HTML.
1507 Vim client now respects excluded tags.
1512 Support messages without Message-IDs.
1517 Undeprecate single message mboxes
1519 It seems more trouble to remove this feature than expected, so
1520 `notmuch new` will no longer nag about mboxes with a single message.
1522 New error logging facility
1524 Clients should call `notmuch_database_status_string` to retrieve
1525 output formerly printed to stderr.
1527 Several bug fixes related to stale iterators
1529 New status code returning API for n_query_search_{messages,thread}
1531 Fix for library `install_name` on Mac OS X
1533 Fix for rounding of seconds
1538 Sphinx is now mandatory to build docs
1540 Support for using rst2man in place of sphinx to build the
1541 documentation has been removed.
1543 Improved notmuch-search-terms.7
1545 The man page `notmuch-search-terms(7)` has been extended, merging
1546 some material from the relicensed wiki.
1551 `notmuch-deliver` is removed. As far as we know, all functionality
1552 previously provided by `notmuch-deliver` should now be provided by
1553 `notmuch insert`, provided by the main notmuch binary.
1558 `nmbug-status` now only matches local branches when reading
1559 `status-config.json` from the `config` branch of the `NMBGIT`
1560 repository. To help new users running `nmbug-status`, `nmbug clone`
1561 now creates a local `config` branch tracking `origin/config`. Folks
1562 who use `nmbug-status` with an in-Git config (i.e. you don't use the
1563 `--config` option) who already have `NMBGIT` set up are encouraged to
1566 git checkout config origin/config
1568 in their `NMBGIT` repository (usually `~/.nmbug`).
1570 Notmuch 0.19 (2014-11-14)
1571 =========================
1576 This release improves the reliability of `notmuch dump` and the error
1577 handling for `notmuch insert`. The new `notmuch address` command is
1578 intended to make searching for email addresses more convenient. At the
1579 library level the revised handling of missing messages fixes at least
1580 one bug in threading. The release also includes several interface
1581 improvements to the emacs interface, most notably the ability to bind
1582 keyboard shortcuts to saved searches.
1584 Command-Line Interface
1585 ----------------------
1587 Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
1589 The dump command now takes the write lock when running. This
1590 prevents other processes from writing to the database during the
1591 dump which would cause the dump to fail. Note, if another notmuch
1592 process already has the write lock the dump will not start, so
1593 script callers should still check the return value.
1595 `notmuch insert` requires successful message indexing for success status
1597 Previously the `notmuch insert` subcommand indicated success even if
1598 the message indexing failed, as long as the message was delivered to
1599 file system. This could have lead to delivered messages missing
1600 tags, etc. `notmuch insert` is now more strict, also requiring
1601 successful indexing for success status. Use the new `--keep` option
1602 to revert to the old behaviour (keeping the delivered message file
1603 and returning success even if indexing fails).
1605 `notmuch insert` has gained support for `post-insert` hook
1607 The new `post-insert` hook is run after message delivery, similar to
1608 `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
1609 skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
1611 `notmuch deliver` is deprecated
1613 With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
1614 parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
1615 `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
1616 currently unmaintained.
1618 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
1620 Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`
1621 options, the new `--duplicate=N --output=messages` combination
1622 limits output of message IDs to messages matching search terms that
1623 have at least `N` files associated with them.
1625 Added `notmuch address` subcommand
1627 This new subcommand searches for messages matching the given search
1628 terms, and prints the addresses from them. Duplicate addresses are
1629 filtered out. The `--output` option controls which of the following
1630 information is printed: sender addresses, recipient addresses and
1631 count of duplicate addresses.
1636 Use the `j` key to access saved searches from anywhere in notmuch
1638 `j` is now globally bound to `notmuch-jump`, which provides fast,
1639 interactive keyboard shortcuts to saved searches. For example,
1640 with the default saved searches `j i` from anywhere in notmuch will
1643 Improved handling of the unread tag
1645 Notmuch now marks an open message read (i.e., removes the unread
1646 tag) if point enters the message at any time in a show buffer
1647 regardless of how point got there (mouse click, cursor command, page
1648 up/down, notmuch commands such as n,N etc). This fixes various
1649 anomalies or bugs in the previous handling. Additionally it is
1650 possible to customize the mark read handling by setting
1651 `notmuch-show-mark-read-function` to a custom function.
1653 Expanded default saved search settings
1655 The default saved searches now include several more common searches,
1656 as well as shortcut keys for `notmuch-jump`.
1658 Improved `q` binding in notmuch buffers
1660 `q` will now bury rather than kill a notmuch search, show or tree
1661 buffer if there are multiple windows showing the buffer. If only a
1662 single window is showing the buffer, it is killed.
1664 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports functions
1666 Some list archives may use a more complicated scheme for referring
1667 to messages than just concatenated URL and message ID. For example,
1668 patchwork requires a query to translate message ID to a patchwork
1669 patch ID. `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-alist` now supports
1670 functions to better cover such cases. See the help documentation for
1671 the variable for details.
1676 Introduced database version 3 with support for "database features."
1678 Features are independent aspects of the database schema.
1679 Representing these independently of the database version number will
1680 let us evolve the database format faster and more incrementally,
1681 while maintaining better forwards and backwards compatibility.
1683 Library users are no longer required to call `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1685 Previously, library users were required to call
1686 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade` and `notmuch_database_upgrade`
1687 before using a writable database. Even the CLI didn't get this
1688 right, and it is no longer required. Now, individual APIs may
1689 return `NOTMUCH_STATUS_UPGRADE_REQUIRED` if the database format is
1690 too out of date for that API.
1692 Library users can now abort an atomic section by closing the database
1694 Previously there was no supported way to abort an atomic section.
1695 Callers can now simply close the database, and any outstanding
1696 atomic section will be aborted.
1698 Add return status to `notmuch_database_close` and
1699 `notmuch_database_destroy`
1701 Bug fixes and performance improvements for thread linking
1703 The database now represents missing-but-referenced messages ("ghost
1704 messages") similarly to how it represents regular messages. This
1705 enables an improved thread linking algorithm that performs better
1706 and fixes a bug that sometimes prevented notmuch from linking
1707 messages into the same thread.
1712 The Perl script has been translated to Python; you'll need Python 2.7
1713 or anything from the 3.x line. Most of the user-facing interface is
1714 the same, but `nmbug help` is now `nmbug --help`, and the following nmbug
1715 commands have slightly different interfaces: `archive`, `commit`,
1716 `fetch`, `log`, `pull`, `push`, and `status`. For details on the
1717 new interface for a given command, run `nmbug COMMAND --help`.
1722 `nmbug-status` can now optionally load header and footer templates
1723 from the config file. Use something like:
1727 "header": "<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang="en">\n...",
1728 "footer": "</body></html>",
1737 Add support for `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude`
1742 The notmuch binaries and libraries are now build with debugging symbols
1743 by default. Users concerned with disk space should change the
1744 defaults when configuring or use the strip(1) command.
1746 Notmuch 0.18.2 (2014-10-25)
1747 ===========================
1752 Translate T380-atomicity to use gdb/python
1754 The new version is compatible with gdb 7.8
1756 Emacs 24.4 related bug fixes
1758 The Messages buffer became read-only, and the generated mime
1759 structure for signatures changed slightly.
1761 Simplify T360-symbol-hiding
1763 Replace the use of `objdump` on the object files with `nm` on the
1766 Notmuch 0.18.1 (2014-06-25)
1767 ===========================
1769 This is a bug fix and portability release.
1774 Add a workaround for systems without zlib.pc
1776 Make emacs install robust against the non-existence of emacs
1778 Put notmuch lib directory first in RPATH
1780 Fix handling of `html_static_path` in sphinx
1782 Both the python bindings and the main docs had spurious settings of
1788 Use --quick when starting emacs
1790 This avoids a hang in the T160-json tests.
1792 Allow pending break points in atomicity script
1794 This allows the atomicity tests to run on several more architectures/OSes.
1796 Command-Line Interface
1797 ----------------------
1799 To improve portability use fsync instead of fdatasync in
1800 `notmuch-dump`. There should be no functional difference.
1805 Resurrect support for single-message mbox files
1807 The removal introduced a bug with previously indexed single-message
1808 mboxes. This support remains deprecated.
1810 Fix for phrase indexing
1812 There were several bugs where words intermingled from different
1813 headers and MIME parts could match a single phrase query. This fix
1814 will affect only newly indexed messages.
1819 Make sure tagging on an empty query is harmless
1821 Previously tagging an empty query could lead to tags being
1822 unintentionally removed.
1824 Notmuch 0.18 (2014-05-06)
1825 =========================
1830 This new release includes some enhancements to searching for messages
1831 by filesystem location (`folder:` and `path:` prefixes under *General*
1832 below). Saved searches in *Emacs* have also been enhanced to allow
1833 distinct search orders for each one. Another enhancement to the
1834 *Emacs* interface is that replies to encrypted messages are now
1835 encrypted, reducing the risk of unintentional information disclosure.
1836 The default dump output format has changed to the more robust
1837 `batch-tag` format. The previously deprecated parsing of single
1838 message mboxes has been removed. For detailed release notes, see
1844 The `folder:` search prefix now requires an exact match
1846 The `folder:` prefix has been changed to search for email messages
1847 by the exact, case sensitive maildir or MH folder name. Wildcard
1848 matching (`folder:foo*`) is no longer supported. The new behaviour
1849 allows for more accurate mail folder based searches, makes it
1850 possible to search for messages in the top-level folder, and should
1851 lead to less surprising results than the old behaviour. Users are
1852 advised to see the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for details,
1853 and review how the change affects their existing `folder:` searches.
1855 There is a new `path:` search prefix
1857 The new `path:` search prefix complements the `folder:` prefix. The
1858 `path:` prefix searches for email messages that are in particular
1859 directories within the mail store, optionally recursively using a
1860 special syntax. See the `notmuch-search-terms` manual page for
1863 Notmuch database upgrade due to `folder:` and `path:` changes
1865 The above mentioned changes to the `folder:` prefix and the addition
1866 of `path:` prefix require a Notmuch database upgrade. This will be
1867 done automatically, without prompting on the next time `notmuch new`
1868 is run after the upgrade. The upgrade is not reversible, and the
1869 upgraded database will not be readable by older versions of
1870 Notmuch. As a safeguard, a database dump will be created in the
1871 `.notmuch` directory before upgrading.
1876 Notmuch database upgrade
1878 The libnotmuch consumers are reminded to handle database upgrades
1879 properly, either by relying on running `notmuch new`, or checking
1880 `notmuch_database_needs_upgrade()` and calling
1881 `notmuch_database_upgrade()` as necessary. This has always been the
1882 case, but in practise there have been no database upgrades in any
1883 released version of Notmuch before now.
1885 Support for indexing mbox files has been dropped
1887 There has never been proper support for mbox files containing
1888 multiple messages, and the support for single-message mbox files has
1889 been deprecated since Notmuch 0.15. The support has now been
1890 dropped, and all mbox files will be rejected during indexing.
1892 Message header parsing changes
1894 Notmuch previously had an internal parser for message headers. The
1895 parser has now been dropped in favour of letting GMime parse both
1896 the headers and the message MIME structure at the same pass. This is
1897 mostly an internal change, but the GMime parser is stricter in its
1898 interpretation of the headers. This may result in messages with
1899 slightly malformed message headers being now rejected.
1901 Command-Line Interface
1902 ----------------------
1904 `notmuch dump` now defaults to `batch-tag` format
1906 The old format is still available with `--format=sup`.
1908 `notmuch new` has a --quiet option
1910 This option suppresses the progress and summary reports.
1912 `notmuch insert` respects maildir.synchronize_flags config option
1914 Do not synchronize tags to maildir flags in `notmuch insert` if the
1915 user does not want it.
1917 The commands set consistent exit status codes on failures
1919 The cli commands now consistently set exit status of 1 on failures,
1920 except where explicitly otherwise noted. The notable exceptions are
1921 the status codes for format version mismatches for commands that
1922 support formatted output.
1924 Bug fix for checking configured new.tags for invalid tags
1926 `notmuch new` and `notmuch insert` now check the user configured
1927 new.tags for invalid tags, and refuse to apply them, similar to
1928 `notmuch tag`. Invalid tags are currently the empty string and tags
1936 If the file pointed by new variable `notmuch-init-file` (typically
1937 `~/.emacs.d/notmuch-config.el`) exists, it is loaded at the end of
1938 `notmuch.el`. Users can put their personal notmuch emacs lisp based
1939 configuration/customization items there instead of filling
1940 `~/.emacs` with these.
1942 Changed format for saved searches
1944 The format for `notmuch-saved-searches` has changed, but old style
1945 saved searches are still supported. The new style means that a saved
1946 search can store the desired sort order for the search, and it can
1947 store a separate query to use for generating the count notmuch
1950 The variable is fully customizable and any configuration done
1951 through customize should *just work*, with the additional options
1952 mentioned above. For manual customization see the documentation for
1953 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
1955 IMPORTANT: a new style notmuch-saved-searches variable will break
1956 previous versions of notmuch-emacs (even search will not work); to
1957 fix remove the customization for notmuch-saved-searches.
1959 If you have a custom saved search sort function (not unsorted or
1960 alphabetical) then the sort function will need to be
1961 modified. Replacing (car saved-search) by (notmuch-saved-search-get
1962 saved-search :name) and (cdr saved-search) by
1963 (notmuch-saved-search-get saved-search :query) should be sufficient.
1965 The keys of `notmuch-tag-formats` are now regexps
1967 Previously, the keys were literal strings. Customized settings of
1968 `notmuch-tag-formats` will continue to work as before unless tags
1969 contain regexp special characters like `.` or `*`.
1971 Changed tags are now shown in the buffer
1973 Previously tag changes made in a buffer were shown immediately. In
1974 some cases (particularly automatic tag changes like marking read)
1975 this made it hard to see what had happened (e.g., whether the
1976 message had been unread).
1978 The changes are now shown explicitly in the buffer: by default
1979 deleted tags are displayed with red strike-through and added tags
1980 are displayed underlined in green (inverse video is used for deleted
1981 tags if the terminal does not support strike-through).
1983 The variables `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` and
1984 `notmuch-tag-added-formats`, which have the same syntax as
1985 `notmuch-tag-formats`, allow this to be customized.
1987 Setting `notmuch-tag-deleted-formats` to `'((".*" nil))` and
1988 `notmuch-tag-added-formats` to `'((".*" tag))` will give the old
1989 behavior of hiding deleted tags and showing added tags identically
1990 to tags already present.
1994 The new, build-time generated variable `notmuch-emacs-version` is used
1995 to distinguish between notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions.
1996 The function `notmuch-hello-versions` (bound to 'v' in notmuch-hello
1997 window) prints both notmuch cli and notmuch emacs versions in case
1998 these differ from each other.
1999 This is especially useful when using notmuch remotely.
2001 Ido-completing-read initialization in Emacs 23
2003 `ido-completing-read` in Emacs 23 versions 1 through 3 freezes unless
2004 it is initialized. Defadvice-based *Ido* initialization is defined
2005 for these Emacs versions.
2007 Bug fix for saved searches with newlines in them
2009 Split lines confuse `notmuch count --batch`, so we remove embedded
2010 newlines before calling notmuch count.
2012 Bug fixes for sender identities
2014 Previously, Emacs would rewrite some sender identities in unexpected
2015 and undesirable ways. Now it will use identities exactly as
2016 configured in `notmuch-identities`.
2018 Replies to encrypted messages will be encrypted by default
2020 In the interest of maintaining confidentiality of communications,
2021 the Notmuch Emacs interface now automatically adds the mml tag to
2022 encrypt replies to encrypted messages. This should make it less
2023 likely to accidentally reply to encrypted messages in plain text.
2025 Reply pushes mark before signature
2027 We push mark and set point on reply so that the user can easily cut
2028 the quoted text. The mark is now pushed before the signature, if
2029 any, instead of end of buffer so the signature is preserved.
2031 Message piping uses the originating buffer's working directory
2033 `notmuch-show-pipe-message` now uses the originating buffer's
2034 current default directory instead of that of the `*notmuch-pipe*`
2040 nmbug adds a `clone` command for setting up the initial repository and
2041 uses `@{upstream}` instead of `FETCH_HEAD` to track upstream changes.
2043 The `@{upstream}` change reduces ambiguity when fetching multiple
2044 branches, but requires existing users update their `NMBGIT`
2045 repository (usually `~/.nmbug`) to distinguish between local and
2046 remote-tracking branches. The easiest way to do this is:
2048 1. If you have any purely local commits (i.e. they aren't in the
2049 nmbug repository on nmbug.tethera.net), push them to a remote
2050 repository. We'll restore them from the backup in step 4.
2051 2. Remove your `NMBGIT` repository (e.g. `mv .nmbug .nmbug.bak`).
2052 3. Use the new `clone` command to create a fresh clone:
2054 nmbug clone https://nmbug.notmuchmail.org/git/nmbug-tags.git
2056 4. If you had local commits in step 1, add a remote for that
2057 repository and fetch them into the new repository.
2059 Notmuch 0.17 (2013-12-30)
2060 =========================
2062 Incompatible change in SHA1 computation
2063 ---------------------------------------
2065 Previously on big endian architectures like sparc and powerpc the
2066 computation of SHA1 hashes was incorrect. This meant that messages
2067 with overlong or missing message-ids were given different computed
2068 message-ids than on more common little endian architectures like i386
2069 and amd64. If you use notmuch on a big endian architecture, you are
2070 strongly advised to make a backup of your tags using `notmuch dump`
2071 before this upgrade. You can locate the affected files using something
2075 awk '/^notmuch-sha1-[0-9a-f]{40} / \
2076 {system("notmuch search --exclude=false --output=files id:" $1)}'
2078 Command-Line Interface
2079 ----------------------
2081 New options to better support handling duplicate messages
2083 If more than one message file is associated with a message-id,
2084 `notmuch search --output=files` will print all of them. A new
2085 `--duplicate=N` option can be used to specify which duplicate to
2086 print for each message.
2088 `notmuch count` now supports `--output=files` option to output the
2089 number of files associated with matching messages. This may be
2090 bigger than the number of matching messages due to duplicates
2091 (i.e. multiple files having the same message-id).
2093 Improved `notmuch new` performance for unchanged folders
2095 `notmuch new` now skips over unchanged folders more efficiently,
2096 which can substantially improve the performance of checking for new
2097 mail in some situations (like NFS-mounted Maildirs).
2099 `notmuch reply --format=text` RFC 2047-encodes headers
2101 Previously, this used a mix of standard MIME encoding for the reply
2102 body and UTF-8 for the headers. Now, the text format reply template
2103 RFC 2047-encodes the headers, making the output a valid RFC 2822
2104 message. The JSON/sexp format is unchanged.
2106 `notmuch compact` command
2108 The new `compact` command exposes Xapian's compaction
2109 functionality through a more convenient interface than
2110 `xapian-compact`. `notmuch compact` will compact the database to a
2111 temporary location, optionally backup the original database, and
2112 move the compacted database into place.
2117 `notmuch-tree` (formerly `notmuch-pick`) has been added to mainline
2119 `notmuch-tree` is a threaded message view for the emacs
2120 interface. Each message is one line in the results and the thread
2121 structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters (similar to
2122 Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in terms of
2123 amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single threads
2124 and multiple threads.
2126 Using `notmuch-tree`
2128 The main key entries to notmuch tree are
2130 'z' enter a query to view using notmuch tree (works in hello,
2131 search, show and tree mode itself)
2133 'Z' view the current query in tree notmuch tree (works from search
2136 Once in tree mode, keybindings are mostly in line with the rest of
2137 notmuch and are all viewable with '?' as usual.
2139 Customising `notmuch-tree`
2141 `notmuch-tree` has several customisation variables. The most
2142 significant is the first notmuch-tree-show-out which determines the
2143 behaviour when selecting a message (with RET) in tree view. By
2144 default tree view uses a split window showing the single message in
2145 the bottom pane. However, if this option is set then it views the
2146 whole thread in the complete window jumping to the selected message
2147 in the thread. In either case command-prefix selects the other option.
2149 Tagging threads in search is now race-free
2151 Previously, adding or removing a tag from a thread in a search
2152 buffer would affect messages that had arrived after the search was
2153 performed, resulting in, for example, archiving messages that were
2154 never seen. Tagging now affects only the messages that were in the
2155 thread when the search was performed.
2157 `notmuch-hello` refreshes when switching to the buffer
2159 The hello buffer now refreshes whenever you switch to the buffer,
2160 regardless of how you get there. You can disable automatic
2161 refreshing by customizing `notmuch-hello-auto-refresh`.
2163 Specific mini-buffer prompts for tagging operations
2165 When entering tags to add or remove, the mini-buffer prompt now
2166 indicates what operation will be performed (e.g., "Tag thread", "Tag
2169 Built-in help improvements
2171 Documentation for many commands has been improved, as displayed by
2172 `notmuch-help` (usually bound to "?"). The bindings listed by
2173 `notmuch-help` also now include descriptions of prefixed commands.
2175 Quote replies as they are displayed in show view
2177 We now render the parts for reply quoting the same way they are
2178 rendered for show. At this time, the notable change is that replies
2179 to text/calendar are now pretty instead of raw vcalendar.
2181 Fixed inconsistent use of configured search order
2183 All ways of interactively invoking search now honor the value of
2184 `notmuch-search-oldest-first`.
2186 Common keymap for notmuch-wide bindings
2188 Several key bindings have been moved from mode-specific keymaps to
2189 the single `notmuch-common-keymap`, which is inherited by each
2190 notmuch mode. If you've customized your key bindings, you may want
2191 to move some of them to the common keymap.
2193 The `notmuch-tag` function now requires a list of tag changes
2195 For users who have scripted the Emacs interface: the `notmuch-tag`
2196 API has changed. Previously, it accepted either a list of tag
2197 changes or a space-separated string of tag changes. The latter is
2198 no longer supported and the function now returns nothing.
2200 Fixed `notmuch-reply` putting reply in primary selection
2202 On emacs 24 notmuch-reply used to put the cited text into the
2203 primary selection (which could lead to inadvertently pasting this
2204 cited text elsewhere). Now the primary-selection is not changed.
2206 Fixed `notmuch-show` invisible part handling
2208 In some obscure cases part buttons and invisibility had strange
2209 interactions: in particular, the default action for some parts gave
2210 the wrong action. This has been fixed.
2212 Fixed `notmuch-show` attachment viewers and stderr
2214 In emacs 24.3+ viewing an attachment could cause spurious text to
2215 appear in the show buffer (any stderr or stdout the viewer
2216 produced). By default this output is now discarded. For debugging,
2217 setting `notmuch-show-attachment-debug` causes notmuch to keep the
2218 viewer's stderr and stdout in a separate buffer.
2220 Fixed `notmuch-mua-reply` point placement when signature involved
2222 By restricting cursor movement to body section for cursor placement
2223 after signature is inserted, the cursor cannot "leak" to header
2224 section anymore. Now inserted citation content will definitely go to
2225 the body part of the message.
2230 It is now possible to compose new messages in the Vim interface, as
2231 opposed reply to existing messages. There is also support for
2232 going straight to a search (bypassing the folders view).
2234 Notmuch 0.16 (2013-08-03)
2235 =========================
2237 Command-Line Interface
2238 ----------------------
2240 Support for delivering messages to Maildir
2242 There is a new command `insert` that adds a message to a Maildir
2243 folder and notmuch index.
2245 `notmuch count --batch` option
2247 `notmuch count` now supports batch operations similar to `notmuch
2248 tag`. This is mostly an optimization for remote notmuch usage.
2250 `notmuch tag` option to remove all tags from matching messages
2252 `notmuch tag --remove-all` option has been added to remove all tags
2253 from matching messages. This can be combined with adding new tags,
2254 resulting in setting (rather than modifying) the tags of the
2257 Decrypting commands explicitly expect a gpg-agent
2259 Decryption in `notmuch show` and `notmuch reply` has only ever
2260 worked with a functioning gpg-agent. This is now made explicit in
2261 code and documentation. The functional change is that it's now
2262 possible to have gpg-agent running, but gpg "use-agent"
2263 configuration option disabled, not forcing the user to use the agent
2266 Configuration file saves follow symbolic links
2268 The notmuch commands that save the configuration file now follow
2269 symbolic links instead of overwrite them.
2271 Top level option to specify configuration file
2273 It's now possible to specify the configuration file to use on the
2274 command line using the `notmuch --config=FILE` option.
2276 Bash command-line completion
2278 The notmuch command-line completion support for the bash shell has
2279 been rewritten. Supported completions include all the notmuch
2280 commands, command-line arguments, values for keyword arguments,
2281 search prefixes (such as "subject:" or "from:") in all commands that
2282 use search terms, tags after + and - in `notmuch tag`, tags after
2283 "tag:" prefix, user's email addresses after "from:" and "to:"
2284 prefixes, and config options (and some config option values) in
2285 `notmuch config`. The new completion support depends on the
2286 bash-completion package.
2288 Deprecated commands "part" and "search-tags" are removed.
2293 New keymap to view/save parts; removed s/v/o/| part button bindings
2295 The commands to view, save, and open MIME parts are now prefixed
2296 with "." (". s" to save, ". v" to view, etc) and can be invoked with
2297 point anywhere in a part, unlike the old commands, which were
2298 restricted to part buttons. The old "s"/"v"/"o"/"|" commands on
2299 part buttons have been removed since they clashed with other
2300 bindings (notably "s" for search!) and could not be invoked when
2301 there was no part button. The new, prefixed bindings appear in
2302 show's help, so you no longer have to memorize them.
2304 Default part save directory is now `mm-default-directory`
2306 Previously, notmuch offered to save parts and attachments to a mix
2307 of `mm-default-directory`, `mailcap-download-directory`, and `~/`.
2308 This has been standardized on `mm-default-directory`.
2310 Key bindings for next/previous thread
2312 Show view has new key bindings M-n and M-p to move to the next and
2313 previous thread in the search results.
2315 Better handling of errors in search buffers
2317 Instead of interleaving errors in search result buffers, search mode
2318 now reports errors in the minibuffer.
2320 Faster search and show
2322 Communication between Emacs and the notmuch CLI is now more
2323 efficient because it uses the CLI's S-expression support. As a
2324 result, search mode should now fill search buffers faster and
2325 threads should show faster.
2329 The Emacs 22 support added late 2010 was sufficient only for a short
2330 period of time. After being incomplete for roughly 2 years the code
2331 in question was now removed from this release.
2336 The vim based front-end has been replaced with a new one that uses the Ruby
2337 bindings. The old font-end is available in the contrib subfolder.
2342 Fix loading of libnotmuch shared library on OS X (Darwin) systems.
2344 Notmuch 0.15.2 (2013-02-17)
2345 ===========================
2350 Update dependencies to avoid problems when building in parallel.
2352 Internal test framework changes
2353 -------------------------------
2355 Adjust Emacs test watchdog mechanism to cope with `process-attributes`
2356 being unimplemented.
2358 Notmuch 0.15.1 (2013-01-24)
2359 ===========================
2361 Internal test framework changes
2362 -------------------------------
2364 Set a default value for TERM when running tests. This fixes certain
2365 build failures in non-interactive environments.
2367 Notmuch 0.15 (2013-01-18)
2368 =========================
2373 Date range search support
2375 The `date:` prefix can now be used in queries to restrict the results
2376 to only messages within a particular time range (based on the Date:
2377 header) with a range syntax of `date:<since>..<until>`. Notmuch
2378 supports a wide variety of expressions in `<since>` and
2379 `<until>`. Please refer to the `notmuch-search-terms(7)` manual page
2382 Empty tag names and tags beginning with "-" are deprecated
2384 Such tags have been a frequent source of confusion and cause
2385 (sometimes unresolvable) conflicts with other syntax. notmuch tag
2386 no longer allows such tags to be added to messages. Removing such
2387 tags continues to be supported to allow cleanup of existing tags,
2388 but may be removed in a future release.
2390 Command-Line Interface
2391 ----------------------
2393 `notmuch new` no longer chokes on mboxes
2395 `notmuch new` now rejects mbox files containing more than one
2396 message, rather than treating the file as one giant message.
2398 Support for single message mboxes is deprecated
2400 For historical reasons, `notmuch new` will index mbox files
2401 containing a single message; however, this behavior is now
2402 officially deprecated.
2404 Fixed `notmuch new` to skip ignored broken symlinks
2406 `notmuch new` now correctly skips symlinks if they are in the
2407 ignored files list. Previously, it would abort when encountering
2408 broken symlink, even if it was ignored.
2410 New dump/restore format and tagging interface
2412 There is a new `batch-tag` format for dump and restore that is more
2413 robust, particularly with respect to tags and message-ids containing
2416 `notmuch tag` now supports the ability to read tag operations and
2417 queries from an input stream, in a format compatible with the new
2418 dump/restore format.
2420 Bcc and Reply-To headers are now available in notmuch show json output
2422 The `notmuch show --format=json` now includes "Bcc" and "Reply-To" headers.
2423 For example notmuch Emacs client can now have these headers visible
2424 when the headers are added to the `notmuch-message-headers` variable.
2426 CLI callers can now request a specific output format version
2428 `notmuch` subcommands that support structured output now support a
2429 `--format-version` argument for requesting a specific version of the
2430 structured output, enabling better compatibility and error handling.
2432 `notmuch search` has gained a null character separated text output format
2434 The new --format=text0 output format for `notmuch search` prints
2435 output separated by null characters rather than newline
2436 characters. This is similar to the find(1) -print0 option, and works
2437 together with the xargs(1) -0 option.
2442 Removal of the deprecated `notmuch-folders` variable
2444 `notmuch-folders` has been deprecated since the introduction of saved
2445 searches and the notmuch hello view in notmuch 0.3. `notmuch-folders`
2446 has now been removed. Any remaining users should migrate to
2447 `notmuch-saved-searches`.
2449 Visibility of MIME parts can be toggled
2451 Each part of a multi-part MIME email can now be shown or hidden
2452 using the button at the top of each part (by pressing RET on it or
2453 by clicking). For emails with multiple alternative formats (e.g.,
2454 plain text and HTML), only the preferred format is shown initially,
2455 but other formats can be shown using their part buttons. To control
2456 the behavior of this, see
2457 `notmuch-multipart/alternative-discouraged` and
2458 `notmuch-show-all-multipart/alternative-parts`.
2460 Note notmuch-show-print-message (bound to '#' by default) will print
2461 all parts of multipart/alternative message regardless of whether
2462 they are currently hidden or shown in the buffer.
2464 Emacs now buttonizes mid: links
2466 mid: links are a standardized way to link to messages by message ID
2467 (see RFC 2392). Emacs now hyperlinks mid: links to the appropriate
2470 Handle errors from bodypart insertions
2472 If displaying the text of a message in show mode causes an error (in
2473 the `notmuch-show-insert-part-*` functions), notmuch no longer cuts
2474 off thread display at the offending message. The error is now
2475 simply displayed in place of the message.
2477 Emacs now detects version mismatches with the notmuch CLI
2479 Emacs now detects and reports when the Emacs interface version and
2480 the notmuch CLI version are incompatible.
2482 Improved text/calendar content handling
2484 Carriage returns in embedded text/calendar content caused insertion
2485 of the calendar content fail. Now CRs are removed before calling icalendar
2486 to extract icalendar data. In case icalendar extraction fails an error
2487 is thrown for the bodypart insertion function to deal with.
2489 Disabled coding conversions when reading in `with-current-notmuch-show-message`
2491 Depending on the user's locale, saving attachments containing 8-bit
2492 data may have performed an unintentional encoding conversion,
2493 corrupting the saved attachment. This has been fixed by making
2494 `with-current-notmuch-show-message` disable coding conversion.
2496 Fixed errors with HTML email containing images in Emacs 24
2498 Emacs 24 ships with a new HTML renderer that produces better output,
2499 but is slightly buggy. We work around a bug that caused it to fail
2500 for HTML email containing images.
2502 Fixed handling of tags with unusual characters in them
2504 Emacs now handles tags containing spaces, quotes, and parenthesis.
2506 Fixed buttonization of id: links without quote characters
2508 Emacs now correctly buttonizes id: links where the message ID is not
2511 `notmuch-hello` refresh point placement improvements
2513 Refreshing the `notmuch-hello` buffer does a better job of keeping
2514 the point where it was.
2516 Automatic tag changes are now unified and customizable
2518 All the automatic tag changes that the Emacs interface makes when
2519 reading, archiving, or replying to messages, can now be
2520 customized. Any number of tag additions and removals is supported
2521 through the `notmuch-show-mark-read`, `notmuch-archive-tags`, and
2522 `notmuch-message-replied-tags` customization variables.
2524 Support for stashing the thread id in show view
2526 Invoking `notmuch-show-stash-message-id` with a prefix argument
2527 stashes the (local and database specific) thread id of the current
2528 thread instead of the message id.
2530 New add-on tool: notmuch-pick
2531 -----------------------------
2533 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-pick` is an experimental threaded message
2534 view for the emacs interface. Each message is one line in the results
2535 and the thread structure is shown using UTF-8 box drawing characters
2536 (similar to Mutt's threaded view). It comes between search and show in
2537 terms of amount of output and can be useful for viewing both single
2538 threads and multiple threads. See the notmuch-pick README file for
2539 further details and installation.
2544 notmuch now builds on OpenBSD.
2546 Internal test framework changes
2547 -------------------------------
2549 The emacsclient binary is now user-configurable
2551 The test framework now accepts `TEST_EMACSCLIENT` in addition to
2552 `TEST_EMACS` for configuring the emacsclient to use. This is
2553 necessary to avoid using an old emacsclient with a new emacs, which
2554 can result in buggy behavior.
2556 Notmuch 0.14 (2012-08-20)
2557 =========================
2562 Maildir tag synchronization
2564 Maildir flag-to-tag synchronization now applies only to messages in
2565 maildir-like directory structures. Previously, it applied to any
2566 message that had a maildir "info" part, which meant it could
2567 incorrectly synchronize tags for non-maildir messages, while at the
2568 same time failing to synchronize tags for newly received maildir
2569 messages (typically causing new messages to not receive the "unread"
2572 Command-Line Interface
2573 ----------------------
2575 The deprecated positional output file argument to `notmuch dump` has
2576 been replaced with an `--output` option. The input file positional
2577 argument to `notmuch restore` has been replaced with an `--input`
2578 option for consistency with dump. These changes simplify the syntax
2579 of dump/restore options and make them more consistent with other
2585 Search results now get re-colored when tags are updated
2587 The formatting of tags in search results can now be customized
2589 Previously, attempting to change the format of tags in
2590 `notmuch-search-result-format` would usually break tagging from
2591 search-mode. We no longer make assumptions about the format.
2593 Experimental support for multi-line search result formats
2595 It is now possible to embed newlines in
2596 `notmuch-search-result-format` to make individual search results
2597 span multiple lines.
2599 Next/previous in search and show now move by boundaries
2601 All "next" and "previous" commands in the search and show modes now
2602 move to the next/previous result or message boundary. This doesn't
2603 change the behavior of "next", but "previous" commands will first
2604 move to the beginning of the current result or message if point is
2605 inside the result or message.
2607 Search now uses the JSON format internally
2609 This should address problems with unusual characters in authors and
2610 subject lines that could confuse the old text-based search parser.
2612 The date shown in search results is no longer padded before applying
2613 user-specified formatting
2615 Previously, the date in the search results was padded to fixed width
2616 before being formatted with `notmuch-search-result-format`. It is
2617 no longer padded. The default format has been updated, but if
2618 you've customized this variable, you may have to change your date
2619 format from `"%s "` to `"%12s "`.
2621 The thread-id for the `target-thread` argument for `notmuch-search` should
2622 now be supplied without the "thread:" prefix.
2624 Notmuch 0.13.2 (2012-06-02)
2625 ===========================
2630 Update `contrib/notmuch-deliver` for API changes in 0.13. This fixes a
2631 compilation error for this contrib package.
2633 Notmuch 0.13.1 (2012-05-29)
2634 ===========================
2639 Fix inserting of UTF-8 characters from *text/plain* parts in reply
2641 While notmuch gained ability to insert content from other than *text/plain*
2642 parts of email whenever *text/plain* parts are not available (notably
2643 HTML-only emails), replying to mails that do have *text/plain* the
2644 non-ASCII characters were incorrectly decoded. This is now fixed.
2646 `notmuch_database_get_directory` and
2647 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` now work on read-only
2650 Previously, these functions attempted to create directory documents
2651 that didn't exist and would return an error or abort when given a
2652 read-only database. Now they no longer create directory documents
2653 and simply return a `NULL` object if the directory does not exist,
2656 Fix compilation of ruby bindings
2658 Revert to dynamic linking, since the statically linked bindings did
2661 Notmuch 0.13 (2012-05-15)
2662 =========================
2664 Command-Line Interface
2665 ----------------------
2669 `notmuch reply` can now produce JSON output that contains the headers
2670 for a reply message and full information about the original message
2671 begin replied to. This allows MUAs to create replies intelligently.
2672 For example, an MUA that can parse HTML might quote HTML parts.
2674 Calling notmuch reply with `--format=json` imposes the restriction that
2675 only a single message is returned by the search, as replying to
2676 multiple messages does not have a well-defined behavior. The default
2677 retains its current behavior for multiple message replies.
2681 Tags can be automatically excluded from search results by adding them
2682 to the new `search.exclude_tags` option in the Notmuch config file.
2684 This behaviour can be overridden by explicitly including an excluded
2685 tag in your query, for example:
2687 notmuch search $your_query and tag:$excluded_tag
2689 Existing users will probably want to run `notmuch setup` again to add
2690 the new well-commented [search] section to the configuration file.
2692 For new configurations, accepting the default setting will cause the
2693 tags "deleted" and "spam" to be excluded, equivalent to running:
2695 notmuch config set search.exclude_tags deleted spam
2697 Raw show format changes
2699 The output of show `--format=raw` has changed for multipart and
2700 message parts. Previously, the output was a mash of somewhat-parsed
2701 headers and transfer-decoded bodies. Now, such parts are reproduced
2702 faithfully from the original source. Message parts (which includes
2703 part 0) output the full message, including the message headers (but
2704 not the transfer headers). Multipart parts output the part as
2705 encoded in the original message, including the part's headers. Leaf
2706 parts, as before, output the part's transfer-decoded body.
2708 Listing configuration items
2710 The new `config list` command prints out all configuration items and
2716 Changes to tagging interface
2718 The user-facing tagging functions in the Emacs interface have been
2719 normalized across all notmuch modes. The tagging functions are now
2720 notmuch-search-tag in search-mode, and notmuch-show-tag in
2721 show-mode. They accept a string representing a single tag change,
2722 or a list of tag changes. See 'M-x describe-function notmuch-tag'
2723 for more information.
2725 NOTE: This breaks compatibility with old tagging functions, so user
2726 may need to update in custom configurations.
2728 Reply improvement using the JSON format
2730 Emacs now uses the JSON reply format to create replies. It obeys
2731 the customization variables message-citation-line-format and
2732 message-citation-line-function when creating the first line of the
2733 reply body, and it will quote HTML parts if no text/plain parts are
2736 New add-on tool: notmuch-mutt
2737 -----------------------------
2739 The new contrib/ tool `notmuch-mutt` provides Notmuch integration for
2740 the Mutt mail user agent. Using it, Mutt users can perform mail
2741 search, thread reconstruction, and mail tagging/untagging without
2742 leaving Mutt. notmuch-mutt, formerly distributed under the name
2743 `mutt-notmuch` by Stefano Zacchiroli, will be maintained as a notmuch
2744 contrib/ from now on.
2749 The API changes detailed below break binary and source compatibility,
2750 so libnotmuch has been bumped to version 3.0.0.
2752 The function `notmuch_database_close` has been split into
2753 `notmuch_database_close` and `notmuch_database_destroy`
2755 This makes it possible for long running programs to close the xapian
2756 database and thus release the lock associated with it without
2757 destroying the data structures obtained from it.
2759 `notmuch_database_open`, `notmuch_database_create`, and
2760 `notmuch_database_get_directory` now return errors
2762 The type signatures of these functions have changed so that the
2763 functions now return a `notmuch_status_t` and take an out-argument for
2764 returning the new database object or directory object.
2771 The go bindings and the `notmuch-addrlookup` utility are now
2772 compatible with go 1.
2774 Notmuch 0.12 (2012-03-20)
2775 =========================
2777 Command-Line Interface
2778 ----------------------
2782 `notmuch reply` has gained the ability to create a reply template
2783 for replying just to the sender of the message, in addition to reply
2784 to all. The feature is available through the new command line option
2785 `--reply-to=(all|sender)`.
2787 Mail store folder/file ignore
2789 A new configuration option, `new.ignore`, lets users specify a
2790 ;-separated list of file and directory names that will not be
2791 searched for messages by `notmuch new`.
2793 NOTE: *Every* file/directory that goes by one of those names will
2794 be ignored, independent of its depth/location in the mail store.
2796 Unified help and manual pages
2798 The notmuch help command now runs man for the appropriate page. If
2799 you install notmuch somewhere "unusual", you may need to update
2802 Manual page for notmuch configuration options
2804 The notmuch CLI configuration file options are now documented in the
2805 notmuch-config(1) manual page in addition to the configuration file
2813 The Emacs interface has, with the new CLI support, gained the
2814 ability to reply to sender in addition to reply to all. In both show
2815 and search modes, 'r' has been bound to reply to sender, replacing
2816 reply to all, which now has key binding 'R'.
2818 More flexible and consistent tagging operations
2820 All tagging operations ('+', '-', '*') now accept multiple tags with
2821 '+' or '-' prefix, like '*' operation in notmuch-search view before.
2823 '*' operation (`notmuch-show-tag-all`) is now available in
2826 `notmuch-show-{add,remove}-tag` functions no longer accept tag
2827 argument, `notmuch-show-tag-message` should be used instead. Custom
2828 bindings using these functions should be updated, e.g.:
2830 (notmuch-show-remove-tag "unread")
2832 should be changed to:
2834 (notmuch-show-tag-message "-unread")
2836 Refreshing the show view ('=' by default) no longer opens or closes messages
2838 To get the old behavior of putting messages back in their initial
2839 opened/closed state, use a prefix argument, e.g., 'C-u ='.
2841 Attachment buttons can be used to view or save attachments.
2843 When the cursor is on an attachment button the key 's' can be used
2844 to save the attachment, the key 'v' to view the attachment in the
2845 default mailcap application, and the key 'o' prompts the user for an
2846 application to use to open the attachment. By default Enter or mouse
2847 button 1 saves the attachment but this is customisable (option
2848 Notmuch Show Part Button Default Action).
2852 `notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link{,-and-go}` allow stashing and
2853 optionally visiting a URI to the current message at one of a number
2854 of Mailing List Archives.
2856 Fix MML tag quoting in replies
2858 The MML tag quoting fix of 0.11.1 unintentionally quoted tags
2859 inserted in `message-setup-hook`. Quoting is now limited to the
2862 Show view archiving key binding changes
2864 The show view archiving key bindings 'a' and 'x' now remove the
2865 "inbox" tag from the current message only (instead of thread), and
2866 move to the next message. At the last message, 'a' proceeds to the
2867 next thread in search results, and 'x' returns to search
2868 results. The thread archiving functions are now available in 'A' and
2871 Support text/calendar MIME type
2873 The text/calendar MIME type is now supported in addition to
2876 Generate inline patch fake attachment file names from message subject
2878 Use the message subject to generate file names for the inline patch
2879 fake attachments. The names are now similar to the ones generated by
2880 'git format-patch' instead of just "inline patch". See "Notmuch Show
2881 Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize interface.
2883 Enable `notmuch-search-line-faces` by default
2885 Make the `notmuch-search-line-faces` functionality more discoverable
2886 for new users by showing "unread" messages bold and "flagged"
2887 messages blue by default in the search view.
2891 notmuch-show mode now has simple printing support, bound to '#' by
2892 default. You can customize the variable notmuch-print-mechanism.
2899 `notmuch_query_add_tag_exclude` supports the new tag exclusion
2902 Python bindings changes
2903 -----------------------
2905 Python 3.2 compatibility
2907 The python bindings are now compatible with both python 2.5+ and 3.2.
2909 Added missing unicode conversions
2911 Python strings have to be encoded to and decoded from utf-8 when
2912 calling libnotmuch functions. Porting the bindings to python 3.2
2913 revealed a few function calls that were missing these conversions.
2918 Compatibility with GMime 2.6
2920 It is now possible to build notmuch against both GMime 2.4 and 2.6.
2921 However, a bug in GMime 2.6 before 2.6.5 causes notmuch not to
2922 report signatures where the signer key is unavailable (GNOME bug
2923 668085). For compatibility with GMime 2.4's tolerance of "From "
2924 headers we require GMime 2.6 >= 2.6.7.
2926 Notmuch 0.11.1 (2012-02-03)
2927 ===========================
2932 Fix error handling in python bindings
2934 The python bindings in 0.11 failed to detect NULL pointers being
2935 returned from libnotmuch functions and thus failed to raise
2936 exceptions to indicate the error condition. Any subsequent calls
2937 into libnotmuch caused segmentation faults.
2939 Quote MML tags in replies
2941 MML tags are text codes that Emacs uses to indicate attachments
2942 (among other things) in messages being composed. The Emacs
2943 interface did not quote MML tags in the quoted text of a reply.
2944 User could be tricked into replying to a maliciously formatted
2945 message and not editing out the MML tags from the quoted text. This
2946 could lead to files from the user's machine being attached to the
2947 outgoing message. The Emacs interface now quotes these tags in
2948 reply text, so that they do not effect outgoing messages.
2950 Notmuch 0.11 (2012-01-13)
2951 =========================
2953 Command-Line Interface
2954 ----------------------
2958 Hooks have been introduced to notmuch. Hooks are scripts that notmuch
2959 invokes before and after certain actions. Initially, `notmuch new`
2960 supports `pre-new` and `post-new` hooks that are run before and after
2961 importing new messages into the database.
2963 `notmuch reply --decrypt bugfix`
2965 The `notmuch reply` command with `--decrypt` argument had a rarely
2966 occurring bug that caused an encrypted message not to be decrypted
2967 sometimes. This is now fixed.
2972 Automatic tag query optimization
2974 `notmuch tag` now automatically optimizes the user's query to
2975 exclude messages whose tags won't change. In the past, we've
2976 suggested that people do this by hand; this is no longer necessary.
2978 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
2980 This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
2981 information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
2982 example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. `sort(1)`.
2987 Reduction of memory leaks
2989 Two memory leaks when searching and showing messages were identified
2990 and fixed in this release.
2997 notmuch-show-advance (bound to the spacebar in notmuch-show-mode) had
2998 a bug that caused it to always jump to the next message, even if it
2999 should have scrolled down to show more of the current message instead.
3002 Support `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3004 It's now possible to use `notmuch new` as a notmuch-poll-script
3005 directly. This is also the new default. This allows taking better
3006 advantage of the `notmuch new` hooks from emacs without intermediate
3009 Improvements in saved search management
3011 New saved searches are now appended to the list of saved searches,
3012 not inserted in front. It's also possible to define a sort function
3013 for displaying saved searches; alphabetical sort is provided.
3015 Hooks for notmuch-hello
3017 Two new hooks have been added: "notmuch-hello-mode-hook" (called after
3018 entering notmuch-hello-mode) and "notmuch-hello-refresh-hook" (called
3019 after updating a notmuch-hello buffer).
3021 New face for crypto parts headers
3023 Crypto parts used to be displayed with a hardcoded color. A new face
3024 has been introduced to fix this: notmuch-crypto-part-header. It
3025 defaults to the same value as before, but can be customized to match
3028 Use space as default thousands separator
3030 Large numbers in notmuch-hello are now displayed using a space as
3031 thousands separator (e.g. "123 456" instead of "123,456"). This can be
3032 changed by customizing "notmuch-hello-thousands-separator".
3034 Call notmuch-show instead of notmuch-search when clicking on
3035 buttonized id: links
3037 New function notmuch-show-advance
3039 This new function advances through just the current thread, and is
3040 less invasive than notmuch-show-advance-and-archive. It can easily
3041 be bound to SPC with:
3043 (define-key notmuch-show-mode-map " " 'notmuch-show-advance)
3045 Various performance improvements
3050 The tool `contrib/notmuch-deliver` helps with initial delivery and
3051 tagging of mail (replacing running `notmuch new`).
3054 Notmuch 0.10.2 (2011-12-04)
3055 ===========================
3060 Fix crash in python bindings
3062 The python bindings did not call `g_type_init`, which caused crashes
3063 for some, but not all users.
3065 Notmuch 0.10.1 (2011-11-25)
3066 ===========================
3071 Fix `--help` argument
3073 Argument processing changes in 0.10 introduced a bug where
3074 `notmuch --help` crashed while `notmuch help` worked fine.
3075 This is fixed in 0.10.1.
3077 Notmuch 0.10 (2011-11-23)
3078 =========================
3080 New build and testing features
3081 ------------------------------
3083 Emacs tests are now done in `dtach`. This means that dtach is now
3084 needed to run the notmuch test suite, at least until the checking for
3085 prerequisites is improved.
3087 Full test coverage of the stashing feature in Emacs.
3089 New command-line features
3090 -------------------------
3092 Add `notmuch restore --accumulate` option
3094 The `--accumulate` switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to
3095 be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in
3098 Add search terms to `notmuch dump`
3100 The dump command now takes an optional search term much like notmuch
3101 search/show/tag. The output file argument of dump is deprecated in
3102 favour of using stdout.
3104 Add `notmuch search` `--offset` and `--limit` options
3106 The search command now takes options `--offset=[-]N` and `--limit=N` to
3107 limit the number of results shown.
3109 Add `notmuch count --output` option
3111 The count command is now capable of counting threads in addition to
3112 messages. This is selected using the new `--output=(threads|messages)`
3115 New emacs UI features
3116 ---------------------
3118 Add tab-completion for `notmuch-search` and `notmuch-search-filter`
3120 These functions now support completion tags for query parts
3121 starting with "tag:".
3123 Turn "id:MSG-ID" links into buttons associated with notmuch searches
3125 Text of the form "id:MSG-ID" in mails is now a clickable button that
3126 opens a notmuch search for the given message id.
3128 Add keybinding ('c I') for stashing Message-ID's without an id: prefix
3130 Reduces manual labor when stashing them for use outside notmuch.
3132 Do not query on `notmuch-search` exit
3134 It is harmless to kill the external notmuch process, so the user
3135 is no longer interrogated when they interrupt a search.
3140 Emacs now constructs large search buffers more efficiently
3142 Search avoids opening and parsing message files
3144 We now store more information in the database so search no longer
3145 has to open every message file to get basic headers. This can
3146 improve search speed by as much as 10X, but taking advantage of this
3147 requires a database rebuild:
3149 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3150 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3152 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3154 New collection of add-on tools
3155 ------------------------------
3157 The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch. These
3158 tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
3159 licenses. Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
3162 nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
3164 nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
3165 prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by committing
3166 them to git in one location and restoring in another.
3168 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
3169 ========================
3171 New, general features
3172 ---------------------
3174 Correct handling of interruptions during `notmuch new`
3176 `notmuch new` now operates as a series of small, self-consistent
3177 transactions, so it can correctly resume after an interruption or
3178 crash. Previously, interruption could lose existing tags, fail to
3179 detect messages on resume, or leave the database in a state
3180 temporarily or permanently inconsistent with the mail store.
3187 `notmuch_database_begin_atomic` and `notmuch_database_end_atomic`
3188 allow multiple database operations to be performed atomically.
3190 `notmuch_database_find_message_by_filename` does exactly what it says.
3194 `notmuch_database_find_message` (and `n_d_f_m_by_filename`) now return
3195 a status indicator and uses an output parameter for the
3196 message. This change required changing the SONAME of libnotmuch to
3199 Python bindings changes
3200 -----------------------
3202 - Re-encode python unicode objects to utf-8 before passing back to
3204 - Support `Database().begin_atomic()/end_atomic()`
3205 - Support `Database().find_message_by_filename()`
3206 NB! This needs a db opened in READ-WRITE mode currently, or it will crash
3207 the python process. The is a limitation (=bug) of the underlying libnotmuch.
3208 - Fixes where we would not throw NotmuchErrors when we should (Justus Winter)
3209 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3211 Ruby bindings changes
3212 ---------------------
3214 - Wrap new library functions `notmuch_database_{begin,end}_atomic.`
3215 - Add new exception `Notmuch::UnbalancedAtomicError.`
3216 - Rename destroy to destroy! according to Ruby naming conventions.
3217 - Update for `n_d_find_message*` API changes (see above).
3222 * Add gpg callback to crypto sigstatus buttons to retrieve/refresh
3224 * Add `notmuch-show-refresh-view` function (and corresponding binding)
3225 to refresh the view of a notmuch-show buffer.
3227 Reply formatting cleanup
3228 ------------------------
3230 `notmuch reply` no longer includes notification that non-leafnode
3231 MIME parts are being suppressed.
3233 Notmuch 0.8 (2011-09-10)
3234 ========================
3236 Improved handling of message/rfc822 parts
3238 Both in the CLI and the emacs interface. Output of rfc822 parts now
3239 includes the primary headers, as well as the body and all subparts.
3240 Output of the completely raw rfc822-formatted message, including all
3241 headers, is unfortunately not yet supported (but hopefully will be
3244 Improved Build system portability
3246 Certain parts of the shell script generating notmuch.sym were
3247 specific to the GNU versions of sed and nm. The new version should
3248 be more portable to e.g. OpenBSD.
3250 Documentation update for Ruby bindings
3252 Added documentation, typo fixes, and improved support for rdoc.
3254 Unicode, iterator, PEP8 changes for python bindings
3256 - PEP8 (code formatting) changes for python files.
3257 - Remove `Tags.__len__` ; see 0.6 release notes for motivation.
3258 - Decode headers as UTF8, encode (unicode) database paths as UTF8.
3260 Notmuch 0.7 (2011-08-01)
3261 ========================
3263 Vim interface improvements
3264 --------------------------
3266 Jason Woofenden provided a number of bug fixes for the Vim interface
3268 * fix citation/signature fold lengths
3269 * fix cig/cit parsing within multipart/*
3270 * fix on-screen instructions for show-signature
3271 * fix from list reformatting in search view
3272 * fix space key: now archives (did opposite)
3274 Uwe Kleine-König contributed
3276 * use full path for sendmail/doc fix
3277 * fix compose temp file name
3279 Python Bindings changes
3280 -----------------------
3282 Sebastian Spaeth contributed two changes related to unicode and UTF8:
3284 * message tags are now explicitly unicode
3285 * query string is encoded as a UTF8 byte string
3287 Build-System improvements
3288 -------------------------
3290 Generate notmuch.sym after the relevant object files
3292 This fixes a bug in parallel building. Thanks to Thomas Jost for the
3295 Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
3296 ==========================
3301 Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols
3303 It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
3304 people running gcc 4.4.5.
3306 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
3307 =======================
3309 New, general features
3310 ---------------------
3312 Folder-based searching
3314 Notmuch queries can now include a search term to match the
3315 directories in which mail files are stored (within the mail
3316 storage). The syntax is as follows:
3320 For example, one might use things such as:
3326 to match any path containing a directory "spam", "work/todo", or
3327 containing a directory starting with "2011-", respectively.
3329 This feature is particularly useful for users of delivery-agent
3330 software (such as procmail or maildrop) that is filtering mail and
3331 delivering it to particular folders, or users of systems such as
3332 Gmail that use filesystem directories to indicate message tags.
3334 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3335 notmuch will be searchable with folder: terms. In order to enable
3336 this feature for all mail, the entire notmuch index will need to be
3339 notmuch dump > notmuch.dump
3340 # Backup, then remove notmuch database ($MAIL/.notmuch)
3342 notmuch restore notmuch.dump
3344 Support for PGP/MIME
3346 Both the command-line interface and the emacs-interface have new
3347 support for PGP/MIME, detailed below. Thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor
3348 and Jameson Graef Rollins for making this happen.
3350 New, automatic tags: "signed" and "encrypted"
3352 These tags will automatically be applied to messages containing
3353 multipart/signed and multipart/encrypted parts.
3355 NOTE: Only messages that are newly indexed with this version of
3356 notmuch will receive these tags.
3358 New command-line features
3359 -------------------------
3361 Add new "notmuch show --verify" option for signature verification
3363 This option instruct notmuch to verify the signature of
3364 PGP/MIME-signed parts.
3366 Add new "notmuch show --decrypt" and "notmuch reply --decrypt" options
3368 This option instructs notmuch to decrypt PGP/MIME-encrypted parts.
3369 Note that this feature currently requires gpg-agent and a passphrase entry
3370 tool (e.g. pinentry-gtk or pinentry-curses).
3372 Proper nesting of multipart parts in "notmuch show" output
3374 MIME parts are now display with proper nesting to reflect original
3375 MIME hierarchy of a message. This allows clients to correctly
3376 analyze the MIME structure, (such as, for example, determining to
3377 which parts a signature part applies).
3379 Add new "notmuch show --part" option
3381 This is a replacement for the older "notmuch part" command, (which
3382 is now deprecated—it should still work as always, but is no longer
3383 documented). Putting part output under "notmuch show" allows for all
3384 of the "notmuch show" options to be applied when extracting a single
3385 part, (such as --format=json for extracting a message part with JSON
3388 Deprecate "notmuch search-tags" (in favor of "notmuch search --output=tags *")
3390 The "notmuch search-tags" sub-command has been redundant since the
3391 addition of the --output=tags option to "notmuch search". We now
3392 make that more clear by deprecating "notmuch search-tags", (dropping
3393 it from the documentation). We do continue to support the old syntax
3394 by translating it internally to the new call.
3396 Performance improvements
3397 ------------------------
3399 Faster searches (by doing fewer searches to construct threads)
3401 Whenever a user asks for search results as threads, notmuch first
3402 performs a search for messages matching the query, then performs
3403 additional searches to find other messages in the resulting threads.
3405 Removing inefficiencies and redundancies in these secondary searches
3406 results in a measured speedups of 1.5x for a typical search.
3408 Faster searches (by doing fewer passes to gather message data)
3410 Optimizing Xapian data access patterns (using a single pass to get
3411 all message-document data rather than a pass for each data type)
3412 results in a measured speedup of 1.7x for a typical search.
3414 The benefits of this optimization combine with the preceding
3415 optimization. With both in place, Austin Clements measured a speedup
3416 of 2.5x for a search of all messages in his inbox (was 4.5s, now
3417 1.8s). Thanks, Austin!
3419 Faster initial indexing
3421 More efficient indexing of new messages results in a measured
3422 speedup of 1.4x for the initial indexing of 3 GB of mail (1h 14m
3423 rather than 1h 46m). Thanks to Austin Clements and Michal Sojka.
3425 Make "notmuch new" faster for unchanged directories
3427 Optimizing to not do any further examinations of sub-directories
3428 when the filesystem indicates that a directory is unchanged from the
3429 last "notmuch new" results in measured speedups of 8.5 for the "No
3430 new mail" case, (was 0.77s, now 0.09s). Thanks to Karel Zak.
3432 New emacs-interface features
3433 ----------------------------
3435 Support for PGP/MIME (GnuPG)
3437 Automatically indicate validity of signatures for multipart/signed
3438 messages. Automatically display decrypted content for
3439 multipart/encrypted messages. See the emacs variable
3440 notmuch-crypto-process-mime for more information. Note that this
3441 needs gpg-agent and a pinentry tool just as the command-line tools.
3442 Also note there is no support SMIME yet.
3444 Output of pipe command is now displayed if pipe command fails
3446 This is extremely useful in the common use case of piping a patch to
3447 "git am". If git fails to cleanly merge the patch the error messages
3448 from the failed merge are now clearly displayed to the user, (where
3449 previously they were silently hidden from the user).
3451 User-selectable From address
3453 A user can choose which configured email addresses should be used as
3454 the From address whenever composing a new message. To do so, simply
3455 press C-u before the command which will open a new message. Emacs
3456 will prompt for the from address to use.
3458 The user can customize the "Notmuch Identities" setting in the
3459 notmuch customize group in order to use addresses other than those in
3460 the notmuch configuration file if desired.
3462 The user can also choose to always be prompted for the from address
3463 when composing a new message (without having to use C-u) by setting
3464 the "Notmuch Always Prompt For Sender" option in the notmuch
3467 Hiding of repeated subjects in collapsed thread view
3469 In notmuch-show mode, if a collapsed message has the same subject as
3470 its parent, the subject is not shown.
3472 Automatic detection and hiding of original message in top-posted message
3474 When a message contains a line looking something like:
3476 ----- Original Message -----
3478 emacs hides this and all subsequent lines as an "original message",
3479 (allowing the user to click or press enter on the "original message"
3480 button to display it again). This makes the handling of top-posted
3481 citations work much like conventional citations.
3483 New hooks for running code when tags are modified
3485 Some users want to perform additional actions whenever a particular
3486 tag is added/removed from a message. This could be used to, for
3487 example, interface with some external spam-recognition training
3488 tool. To facilitate this, two new hooks are added which can be
3489 modified in the following settings of the notmuch customize group:
3491 Notmuch Before Tag Hook
3492 Notmuch After Tag Hook
3494 New optional support for hiding some multipart/alternative parts
3496 Many emails are sent with redundant content within a
3497 multipart/alternative group (such as a text/plain part as well as a
3498 text/html part). Users can configure the setting:
3500 Notmuch Show All Multipart/Alternative Parts
3502 to "off" in the notmuch customize group to have the interface
3503 automatically hide some part alternatives (such as text/html
3504 parts). This new part hiding is not configured by default yet
3505 because there's not yet a simple way to re-display such a hidden
3506 part if it is not actually redundant with a displayed part.
3508 Better rendering of text/x-vcalendar parts
3510 These parts are now displayed in a format suitable for use with the
3513 Avoid getting confused by Subject and Author fields with newline characters
3515 Replacing all characters with ASCII code less than 32 with a question mark.
3517 Cleaner display of From line in email messages
3519 Remove double quotes, and drop "name" if it's actually just a repeat of
3522 Vim interface improvements
3523 --------------------------
3525 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface:
3527 * Using sendmail directly rather than mailx,
3528 * Implementing archive in show view
3529 * Add support to mark as read in show and search views
3530 * Add delete commands
3533 Bindings improvements
3534 ---------------------
3536 Ruby bindings are now much more complete
3538 Including `QUERY.sort`, `QUERY.to_s`, `MESSAGE.maildir_flags_to_tags`,
3539 `MESSAGE.tags_to_maildir_flags`, and `MESSAGE.get_filenames`
3541 Python bindings have been updated and extended
3543 (docs online at https://notmuch.readthedocs.io/)
3547 - `Message().get_filenames()`, `Message().tags_to_maildir_flags()`,
3548 `Message().maildir_flags_to_tags()`, `list(Threads())` and
3549 `list(Messages)` works now
3550 - `Message().__cmp__()` and `__hash__()`
3552 These allow, for example:
3554 if msg1 == msg2: ...
3556 As well as set arithmetic on `Messages()`:
3558 s1, s2 = set(msgs1), set(msgs2)
3564 - `len(Messages())` as it exhausted the iterator
3566 Use `len(list(Messages()))` or `Query.count_messages()`
3569 Added initial Go bindings in bindings/go
3571 New build-system features
3572 -------------------------
3574 Added support for building in a directory other than the source directory
3576 This can be used with the widely-supported idiom of simply running
3577 the configure script from some other directory:
3584 Fix to save configure options for future, implicit runs of configure
3586 When a user updates the source (such as with "git pull") calling
3587 "make" may cause an automatic re-run of the configure script. When
3588 this happens, the configure script will automatically be called with
3589 the same options the user originally passed in the most-recent
3590 manual invocation of configure.
3592 New test-suite feature
3593 ----------------------
3595 Binary for bash for running test suite now located via PATH
3597 The notmuch test suite requires a fairly recent version of bash (>=
3598 bash 4). As some systems supply an older version of bash at
3599 /bin/bash, the test suite is now updated to search $PATH to locate
3600 the bash binary. This allows users of systems with old /bin/bash to
3601 simply install bash >= 4 somewhere on $PATH before /bin and then use
3604 Support for testing output with a trailing newline
3606 Previously, some tests would fail to notice a difference in the
3607 presence/absence of a trailing newline in a program output, (which
3608 has led to bugs in the past). Now, carefully-written tests (using
3609 `test_expect_equal_file` rather than `test_expect_equal`) will detect
3610 any change in the presence/absence of a trailing newline. Many tests
3611 are updated to take advantage of this.
3613 Avoiding accessing user's $HOME while running test suite
3615 The test suite now carefully creates its own HOME directory. This
3616 allows the test suite to be run with no existing HOME directory, (as
3617 some build systems apparently do), and avoids test-suite differences
3618 due to configuration files in the users HOME directory.
3624 Output *all* files for "notmuch search --output=files"
3626 For the cases where multiple files have the same Message ID,
3627 previous versions of notmuch would output only one such file. This
3628 command is now fixed to correctly output all files.
3630 Fixed spurious search results from "overlapped" indexing of addresses
3632 This fixed a bug where a search for:
3634 to:user@elsewhere.com
3636 would incorrectly match a message sent:
3638 To: user@example,com, someone@elsewhere.com
3640 Fix --output=json when search has no results
3642 A bug present since notmuch 0.4 had caused searches with no results
3643 to produce an invalid json object. This is now fixed to cleanly
3644 return a valid json object representing an empty array "[]" as
3647 Fix the automatic detection of the From address for "notmuch reply"
3648 from the Received headers in some cases
3650 Fix core dump on DragonFlyBSD due to -1 return value from
3651 `sysconf(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)`
3653 Cleaned up several memory leaks
3655 Eliminated a few, rare segmentation faults and a double-free
3657 Fix libnotmuch library to only export notmuch API functions
3659 Previous release of the notmuch library also exported some Xapian
3660 C++ exception type symbols. These were never part of the library
3661 interface and were never intended to be exported.
3663 Emacs-interface bug fixes
3664 -------------------------
3666 Display any unexpected output or errors from "notmuch search" invocations
3668 Previously any misformatted output or trailing error messages were
3669 silently ignored. This output is now clearly displayed. This fix was
3670 very helpful in identifying and fixing the bug described below.
3672 Fix bug where some threads would be missing from large search results
3674 When a search returned a "large" number of results, the emacs
3675 interface was incorrectly dropping one thread every time the output
3676 of the "notmuch search" process spanned the emacs read-buffer. This
3679 Avoid re-compression of .gz files (and similar) when saving attachment
3681 Emacs was being too clever for its own good and trying to
3682 re-compress pre-compressed .gz files when saving such attachments
3683 (potentially corrupting the attachment). The emacs interface is
3684 fixed to avoid this bug.
3686 Fix hiding of a message when a previously-hidden citation is visible
3688 Previously the citation would remain visible in this case. This is
3689 fixed so that hiding a message hides all parts.
3691 Notmuch 0.5 (2010-11-11)
3692 ========================
3694 New, general features
3695 ---------------------
3697 Maildir-flag synchronization
3699 Notmuch now knows how to synchronize flags in maildir filenames with
3700 tags in the notmuch database. The following flag/tag mappings are
3709 'S' unread (added when 'S' flag is not present)
3711 The synchronization occurs in both directions, (for example, adding
3712 the 'S' flag to a file will cause the "unread" tag to be added, and
3713 adding the "replied" tag to a message will cause the file to be
3714 renamed with an 'R' flag).
3716 This synchronization is enabled by default for users of the
3717 command-line interface, (though only files in directories named
3718 "cur" or "new" will be renamed). It can be disabled by setting the
3719 new `maildir.synchronize_flags` option in the configuration file. For
3722 notmuch config set maildir.synchronize_flags false
3724 Users upgrading may also want to run "notmuch setup" once (just
3725 accept the existing configuration) to get a new, nicely-commented
3726 [maildir] section added to the configuration file.
3728 For users of the notmuch library, the new synchronization
3729 functionality is available with the following two new functions:
3731 notmuch_message_maildir_flags_to_tags
3732 notmuch_message_tags_to_maildir_flags
3734 It is anticipated that future improvements to this support will
3735 allow for safe synchronization of the 'T' flag with the "deleted"
3736 tag, as well as support for custom flag/tag mappings.
3738 New library features
3739 --------------------
3741 Support for querying multiple filenames for a single message
3743 It is common for the mailstore to contain multiple files with the
3744 same message ID. Previously, notmuch would always hide these
3745 duplicate files, (returning a single, arbitrary filename with
3746 `notmuch_message_get_filename`).
3748 With this release, library users can access all filenames for a
3749 message with the new function:
3751 notmuch_message_get_filenames
3753 Together with `notmuch_filenames_valid`, `notmuch_filenames_get`,
3754 and `notmuch_filenames_move_to_next` it is now possible to iterate
3755 over all available filenames for a given message.
3757 New command-line features
3758 -------------------------
3760 New "notmuch show --format=raw" for getting at original email contents
3762 This new feature allows for a fully-functional email client to be
3763 built on top of the notmuch command-line without needing any direct
3764 access to the mail store itself.
3766 For example, it's now possible to run "emacs -f notmuch" on a local
3767 machine with only ssh access to the mail store/notmuch database. To
3768 do this, simply set the notmuch-command variable in emacs to the
3769 name of a script containing:
3771 ssh user@host notmuch "$@"
3773 If the ssh client has enabled connection sharing (ControlMaster
3774 option in OpenSSH), the emacs interface can be quite responsive this
3780 Fix "notmuch search" to print nothing when nothing matches
3782 The 0.4 release had a bug in which:
3784 notmuch search <expression-with-no-matches>
3786 would produce a single blank line of output, (where previous
3787 versions would produce no output. This fix also causes a change in
3788 the --format=json output, (which would previously produce "[]" and
3789 now produces nothing).
3791 Emacs interface improvements
3792 ----------------------------
3794 Fix to allow pipe ('|') command to work when using notmuch over ssh
3796 Fix count of lines in hidden signatures
3798 Omit repeated subject lines in (collapsed) thread display
3800 Display current thread subject in a header line
3802 Provide a "c i" binding to copy a thread ID from the search view
3804 Allow for notmuch-fcc-dirs to have a value of nil
3806 Also, the more complex form of notmuch-fcc-dirs now has a slightly
3807 different format. It no longer has a special first-element, fallback
3808 string. Instead it's now a list of cons cells where the car of each
3809 cell is a regular expression to be matched against the sender
3810 address, and the cdr is the name of a folder to use for an FCC. So
3811 the old fallback behavior can be achieved by including a final cell
3812 of (".*" . "default-fcc-folder").
3814 Vim interface improvements
3815 --------------------------
3817 Felipe Contreras provided a number of updates for the vim interface
3819 These include optimizations, support for newer versions of vim, fixed
3820 support for sending mail on modern systems, new commands, and
3826 Added initial ruby bindings in bindings/ruby
3828 Notmuch 0.4 (2010-11-01)
3829 ========================
3831 New command-line features
3832 -------------------------
3834 `notmuch search --output=(summary|threads|messages|tags|files)`
3836 This new option allows for particular items to be returned from
3837 notmuch searches. The "summary" option is the default and behaves
3838 just as "notmuch search" has historically behaved.
3840 The new option values allow for thread IDs, message IDs, lists of
3841 tags, and lists of filenames to be returned from searches. It is
3842 expected that this new option will be very useful in shell
3843 scripts. For example:
3845 for file in $(notmuch search --output=files <search-terms>); do
3846 <operations-on> "$file"
3849 `notmuch show --format=mbox <search-specification>`
3851 This new option allows for the messages matching a search
3852 specification to be presented as an mbox. Specifically the "mboxrd"
3853 format is used which allows for reversible quoting of lines
3854 beginning with "From ". A reader should remove a single '>' from the
3855 beginning of all lines beginning with one or more '>' characters
3856 followed by the 5 characters "From ".
3858 `notmuch config [get|set] <section>.<item> [value ...]`
3860 The new top-level "config" command allows for any value in the
3861 notmuch configuration file to be queried or set to a new value. Both
3862 single-valued and multi-valued items are supported, as our any
3863 custom items stored in the configuration file.
3865 Avoid setting Bcc header in "notmuch reply"
3867 We decided that this was a bit heavy-handed as the actual mail
3868 user-agent should be responsible for setting any Bcc option. Also,
3869 see below for the notmuch/emacs user-agent now setting an Fcc by
3870 default rather than Bcc.
3872 New library features
3873 --------------------
3875 Add `notmuch_query_get_query_string` and `notmuch_query_get_sort`
3877 These are simply functions for querying properties of a
3878 `notmuch_query_t` object.
3883 Enable Fcc of all sent messages by default (to "sent" directory)
3885 All messages sent from the emacs interface will now be saved to the
3886 notmuch mail store where they will be incorporated to the database
3887 by the next "notmuch new". By default, messages are saved to the
3888 "sent" directory at the top-level of the mail store. This directory
3889 can be customized by means of the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" option in the
3890 notmuch customize interface.
3892 Ability to all open messages in a thread to a pipe
3894 Historically, the '|' keybinding allows for piping a single message
3895 to an external command. Now, by prefixing this key with a prefix
3896 argument, (for example, by pressing "Control-U |"), all open
3897 messages in the current thread will be sent to the external command.
3899 Optional support for detecting inline patches
3901 This hook is disabled by default but can be enabled with a checkbox
3902 under "Notmuch Show Insert Text/Plain Hook" in the notmuch customize
3903 interface. It allows for inline patches to be detected and treated
3904 as if they were attachments, (with context-sensitive highlighting).
3906 Automatically tag messages as "replied" when sending a reply
3908 Messages replied to within the emacs interface will now be tagged as
3909 "replied". This feature can easily be customized to add or remove
3910 other tags as well. For example, a user might use a tag of
3911 "needs-reply" and can configure this feature to automatically remove
3912 that tag when replying. See "Notmuch Message Mark Replied" in the
3913 notmuch customize interface.
3915 Allow search-result color specifications to overlay each other
3917 For example, one tag can specify the background color of matching
3918 lines, while another can specify the foreground. With this change,
3919 both settings will now be visible simultaneously, (which was not the
3920 case in previous releases). See "Notmuch Search Line Faces" in the
3921 notmuch customize interface.
3923 Make hidden author names still available for incremental search
3925 When there is insufficient space to display all authors of a thread
3926 in search results, the names of hidden authors are now still made
3927 available to emacs' incremental search commands. As the user
3928 searches, matching lines will temporarily expand to show the hidden
3931 New binding of Control-TAB (works like TAB in reverse)
3933 Many notmuch nodes already use TAB to navigate forward through
3934 various items allowing actions, (message headers, email attachments,
3935 etc.). The new Control-TAB binding operates similarly but in the
3938 New build-system features
3939 -------------------------
3941 Various portability fixes have been applied
3943 These include fixes for build failures on at least Solaris, FreeBSD,
3944 and Fedora systems. We're hopeful that the notmuch code base is now
3945 more portable than ever before.
3947 Arrange for libnotmuch to be found automatically after make install
3949 The notmuch build system is now careful to help the user avoid
3950 errors of the form "libnotmuch.so could not be found" immediately
3951 after installing. This support takes two forms:
3953 1. If the library is installed to a system directory,
3954 (configured in /etc/ld.so.conf), then "make install" will
3955 automatically run ldconfig.
3957 2. If the library is installed to a non-system directory, the
3958 build system adds a `DR_RUNPATH` entry to the final binary
3959 pointing to the directory to which the library is installed.
3961 When this support works, the user should be able to run notmuch
3962 immediately after "make install", without any errors trying to find
3963 the notmuch library, and without having to manually set environment
3964 variables such as `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`.
3966 Check compiler/linker options before using them
3968 The configure script now carefully checks that any desired
3969 compilation options, (whether for enabling compiler warnings, or for
3970 embedding rpath, etc.), are supported. Only supported options are
3971 used in the resulting Makefile.
3973 New test-suite features
3974 -----------------------
3976 New modularization of test suite
3978 Thanks to a gracious relicensing of the test-suite infrastructure
3979 from the git project, notmuch now has a modular test suite. This
3980 provides the ability to run individual sections of the test suite
3981 rather than the whole things. It also provides better summary of
3982 test results, with support for tests that are expected to fail
3983 (BROKEN and FIXED) in addition to PASS and FAIL. Finally, it makes
3984 it easy to run the test suite within valgrind (pass --valgrind to
3985 notmuch-test or to any sub-script) which has been very useful.
3987 New testing of emacs interface
3989 The test suite has been augmented to allow automated testing of the
3990 emacs interfaces. So far, this includes basic searches, display of
3991 threads, and tag manipulation. This also includes a test that a new
3992 message can successfully be sent out through a (dummy) SMTP server
3993 and that said message is successfully integrated into the notmuch
3994 database via the FCC setting.
3999 Fix potential corruption of database when "notmuch new" is interrupted
4001 Previously, an interruption of "notmuch new" would (rarely) result
4002 in a corrupt database. The corruption would manifest itself by a
4003 persistent error of the form:
4005 document ID of 1234 has no thread ID
4007 The message-adding code has been carefully audited and reworked to
4008 avoid this sort of corruption regardless of when it is interrupted.
4010 Fix failure with extremely long message ID headers
4012 Previously, a message with an extremely long message ID, (say, more
4013 than 300 characters), would fail to be added to notmuch, (triggering
4014 Xapian exceptions). This has now been fixed.
4016 Fix for messages with "charset=unknown-8bit"
4018 Previously, messages with this charset would cause notmuch to emit a
4019 GMime warning, (which would then trip up emacs or other interfaces
4020 parsing the notmuch results).
4022 Fix `notmuch_query_search_threads` function to return NULL on any exception
4024 Fix "notmuch search" to return non-zero if `notmuch_query_search_threads`
4027 Previously, this command could confusingly report a Xapian
4028 exception, yet still return an error code of 0. It now correctly
4029 returns a failing error code of 1 in this case.
4034 Fix to handle a message with a subject containing, for example "[1234]"
4036 Previously, a message subject containing a sequence of digits within
4037 square brackets would cause the emacs interface to mis-parse the
4038 output of "notmuch search". This would result in the message being
4039 mis-displayed and prevent the user from manipulating the message in
4040 the emacs interface.
4042 Fix to correctly handle message IDs containing ".."
4044 The emacs interface now properly quotes message IDs to avoid a
4045 Xapian bug in which the ".." within a message ID would be
4046 misinterpreted as a numeric range specification.
4048 Python-binding fixes
4049 --------------------
4051 The python bindings for notmuch have been updated to work with python3.
4053 Debian-specific fixes
4054 ---------------------
4056 Fix emacs initialization so "M-x notmuch" works for users by default
4058 Now, a new Debian user can immediately run "emacs -f notmuch" after
4059 "apt-get install notmuch". Previously, the user would have had to
4060 edit the ~/.emacs file to add "(require 'notmuch)" before this would
4063 Notmuch 0.3.1 (2010-04-27)
4064 ==========================
4069 Fix an infinite loop in "notmuch reply"
4071 This bug could be triggered by replying to a message where the
4072 user's primary email address did not appear in the To: header and
4073 the user had not configured any secondary email addresses. The bug
4074 was a simple re-use of the same iterator variable in nested loops.
4076 Fix a potential SEGV in "notmuch search"
4078 This bug could be triggered by an author name ending in a ','.
4079 Admittedly - that's almost certainly a spam email, but we never
4080 want notmuch to crash.
4085 Fix calculations for line wrapping in the primary "notmuch" view
4087 Fix Fcc support to prompt to create a directory if the specified Fcc
4088 directory does not exist
4093 Fix build on OpenSolaris (at least) due to missing 'extern "C"' block
4095 Without this, the C++ sources could not find strcasestr and the
4096 final linking of notmuch would fail.
4098 Notmuch 0.3 (2010-04-27)
4099 ========================
4101 New command-line features
4102 -------------------------
4104 User-configurable tags for new messages
4106 A new "new.tags" option is available in the configuration file to
4107 determine which tags are applied to new messages. Run "notmuch
4108 setup" to generate new documentation within ~/.notmuch-config on how
4109 to specify this value.
4111 Threads search results named based on subjects that match search
4113 This means that when new mails arrived to a thread you've previously
4114 read, and the new mails have a new subject, you will see that
4115 subject in the search results rather than the old subject.
4117 Faster operation of "notmuch tag" (avoid unneeded sorting)
4119 Since the user just wants to tag all matching messages, we can make
4120 things perform a bit faster by avoiding the sort.
4122 Even Better guessing of From: header for "notmuch reply"
4124 Notmuch now looks at a number of headers when trying to figure out
4125 the best From: header to use in a reply. This is helpful if you have
4126 several configured email addresses, and you also subscribe to various
4127 mailing lists with different addresses, (so that mails you are
4128 replying to won't always include your subscribed address in the To:
4131 Indication of author names that match a search
4133 When notmuch displays threads as the result of a search, it now
4134 lists the authors that match the search before listing the other
4135 authors in the thread. It inserts a pipe '|' symbol between the last
4136 matching and first non-matching author. This is especially useful in
4137 a search that includes tag:unread. Now the authors of the unread
4138 messages in the thread are listed first.
4140 New: Python bindings
4141 --------------------
4143 Sebastian Spaeth has contributed his python bindings for the notmuch
4144 library to the central repository. These bindings were previously
4145 known as "cnotmuch" within python but have now been renamed to be
4146 accessible with a simple, and more official-looking "import notmuch".
4148 The bindings have already proven very useful as people proficient in
4149 python have been able to easily develop programs to do notmuch-based
4150 searches for email-address completion, maildir-flag synchronization,
4153 These bindings are available within the bindings/python directory, but
4154 are not yet integrated into the top-level Makefiles, nor the top-level
4155 package-building scripts. Improvements are welcome.
4157 Emacs interface improvements
4158 ----------------------------
4160 An entirely new initial view for notmuch, (friendly yet powerful)
4162 Some of us call the new view "notmuch hello" but you can get at it
4163 by simply calling "emacs -f notmuch". The new view provides a search
4164 bar where new searches can be performed. It also displays a list of
4165 recent searches, along with a button to save any of these, giving it
4166 a new name as a "saved search". Many people find these "saved
4167 searches" one of the most convenient ways of organizing their mail,
4168 (providing all of the features of "folders" in other mail clients,
4169 but without any of the disadvantages).
4171 Finally, this view can also optionally display all of the tags that
4172 exist in the database, along with a count for each tag, and a custom
4173 search of messages with that tag that's simply a click (or keypress)
4176 NOTE: For users that liked the original mode of "emacs -f notmuch"
4177 immediately displaying a particular search result, we recommend
4178 instead running something like:
4180 emacs --eval '(notmuch search "tag:inbox" t)'
4182 The "t" means to sort the messages in an "oldest first" order,
4183 (as notmuch would do previously by default). You can also
4184 leave that off to have your search results in "newest first"
4187 Full-featured "customize" support for configuring notmuch
4189 Notmuch now plugs in well to the emacs "customize" mode to make it
4190 much simpler to find things about the notmuch interface that can be
4191 tweaked by the user.
4193 You can get to this mode by starting at the main "Customize" menu in
4194 emacs, then browsing through "Applications", "Mail", and
4195 "Notmuch". Or you can go straight to "M-x customize-group"
4198 Once you're at the customize screen, you'll see a list of documented
4199 options that can be manipulated along with checkboxes, drop-down
4200 selectors, and text-entry boxes for configuring the various
4203 Support for doing tab-completion of email addresses
4205 This support currently relies on an external program,
4206 (notmuch-addresses), that is not yet shipped with notmuch
4207 itself. But multiple, suitable implementations of this program have
4208 already been written that generate address completions by doing
4209 notmuch searches of your email collection. For example, providing
4210 first those addresses that you have composed messages to in the
4213 One such program (implemented in python with the python bindings to
4214 notmuch) is available via:
4216 git clone http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/git/notmuch_addresses.git
4218 Install that program as notmuch-addresses on your PATH, and then
4219 hitting TAB on a partial email address or name within the To: or Cc:
4220 line of an email message will provide matching completions.
4222 Support for file-based (Fcc) delivery of sent messages to mail store
4224 This isn't yet enabled by default. To enable this, one will have to
4225 set the "Notmuch Fcc Dirs" setting within the notmuch customize
4226 screen, (see its documentation there for details). We anticipate
4227 making this automatic in a future release.
4229 New 'G' key binding to trigger mail refresh (G == "Get new mail")
4231 The 'G' key works wherever '=' works. Before refreshing the screen
4232 it calls an external program that can be used to poll email servers,
4233 run notmuch new and set up specific tags for the new emails. The
4234 script to be called should be configured with the "Notmuch Poll
4235 Script" setting in the customize interface. This script will
4236 typically invoke "notmuch new" and then perhaps several "notmuch
4239 Implement emacs message display with the JSON output from notmuch
4241 This is much more robust than the previous implementation, (where
4242 some HTML mails and mail quoting the notmuch code with the delimiter
4243 characters in it would cause the parser to fall over).
4245 Better handling of HTML messages and MIME attachments (inline images!)
4247 Allow for any MIME parts that emacs can display to be displayed
4248 inline. This includes inline viewing of image attachments, (provided
4249 the window is large enough to fit the image at its natural size).
4251 Much more robust handling of HTML messages. Currently both text/plain
4252 and text/html alternates will be rendered next to each other. In a
4253 future release, users will be able to decide to see only one or the
4254 other representation.
4256 Each attachment now has its own button so that attachments can be
4257 saved individually (the 'w' key is still available to save all
4260 Customizable support for tidying of text/plain message content
4262 Many new functions are available for tidying up message
4263 content. These include options such as wrapping long lines,
4264 compressing duplicate blank lines, etc.
4266 Most of these are disabled by default, but can easily be enabled by
4267 clicking the available check boxes under the "Notmuch Show Insert
4268 Text/Plain Hook" within the notmuch customize screen.
4270 New support for searchable citations (even when hidden)
4272 When portions of overly-long citations are hidden, the contents of
4273 these citations will still be available for emacs' standard
4274 "incremental search" functions. When the search matches any portion
4275 of a hidden citation, the citation will become visible temporarily
4276 to display the search result.
4278 More flexible handling of header visibility
4280 As an answer to complaints from many users, the To, Cc, and Date
4281 headers of messages are no longer hidden by default. For those users
4282 that liked that these were hidden, a new "Notmuch Messages Headers
4283 Visible" option in the customize interface can be set to nil. The
4284 visibility of headers can still be toggled on a per-message basis
4285 with the 'h' keybinding.
4287 For users that don't want to see some subset of those headers, the
4288 new "Notmuch Message Headers" variable can be customized to list
4289 only those headers that should be present in the display of a message.
4291 The Return key now toggles message visibility anywhere
4293 Previously this worked only on the first summary-line of a message.
4295 Customizable formatting of search results
4297 The user can easily customize the order, width, and formatting of
4298 the various fields in a "notmuch search" buffer. See the "Notmuch
4299 Search Result Format" section of the customize interface.
4301 Generate nicer names for search buffers when using a saved search
4303 Add a notmuch User-Agent header when sending mail from notmuch/emacs
4305 New keybinding (M-Ret) to open all collapsed messages in a thread
4310 Provide a new `NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED` value for queries
4312 This can be somewhat faster when sorting simply isn't desired. For
4313 example when collecting a set of messages that will all be
4314 manipulated identically, (adding a tag, removing a tag, deleting the
4315 messages), then there's no advantage to sorting the messages by
4321 Fix to compile against GMime 2.6
4323 Previously notmuch insisted on being able to find GMime 2.4, (even
4324 though GMime 2.6 would have worked all along).
4326 Fix configure script to accept (and ignore) various standard options
4328 For example, those that the Gentoo build scripts expect configure to
4329 accept are now all accepted.
4334 A large number of new tests for the many new features
4336 Better display of output from failed tests
4338 Now shows failures with diff rather than forcing the user to gaze at
4339 complete actual and expected output looking for deviation.
4341 Notmuch 0.2 (2010-04-16)
4342 ========================
4344 This is the second release of the notmuch mail system, with actual
4345 detailed release notes this time!
4347 This release consists of a number of minor new features that make
4348 notmuch more pleasant to use, and a few fairly major bug fixes.
4350 We didn't quite hit our release target of "about a week" from the 0.1
4351 release, (0.2 is happening 11 days after 0.1), but we hope to do
4352 better for next week. Look forward to some major features coming to
4353 notmuch in subsequent releases.
4360 Better guessing of From: header
4362 Notmuch now tries harder to guess which configured address should be
4363 used as the From: line in a "notmuch reply". It will examine the
4364 Received: headers if it fails to find any configured address in To:
4365 or Cc:. This allows it to often choose the correct address even when
4366 replying to a message sent to a mailing list, and not directly to a
4369 Make "notmuch count" with no arguments count all messages
4371 Previously, it was hard to construct a search term that was
4372 guaranteed to match all messages.
4374 Provide a new special-case search term of "*" to match all messages
4376 This can be used in any command accepting a search term, such as
4377 "notmuch search '*'". Note that you'll want to take care that the
4378 shell doesn't expand * against the current files. And note that the
4379 support for "*" is a special case. It's only meaningful as a single
4380 search term and loses its special meaning when combined with any
4383 Automatically detect thread connections even when a parent message is
4386 Previously, if two or more message were received with a common
4387 parent, but that parent was not received, then these messages would
4388 not be recognized as belonging to the same thread. This is now fixed
4389 so that such messages are properly connected in a thread.
4394 Fix potential data loss in "notmuch new" with SIGINT
4396 One code path in "notmuch new" was not properly handling
4397 SIGINT. Previously, this could lead to messages being removed from
4398 the database (and their tags being lost) if the user pressed
4399 Control-C while "notmuch new" was working.
4401 Fix segfault when a message includes a MIME part that is empty
4403 Fix handling of non-ASCII characters with --format=json
4405 Previously, characters outside the range of 7-bit ASCII were
4406 silently dropped from the JSON output. This led to corrupted display
4407 of utf-8 content in the upcoming notmuch web-based frontends.
4409 Fix headers to be properly decoded in "notmuch reply"
4411 Previously, the user might see:
4413 Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-2?q?Rozlu=E8ka?=
4417 Subject: Re: Rozlučka
4419 The former text is properly encoded to be RFC-compliant SMTP, will
4420 be sent correctly, and will be properly decoded by the
4421 recipient. But the user trying to edit the reply would likely be
4422 unable to read or edit that field in its encoded form.
4424 Emacs client features
4425 ---------------------
4427 Show the last few lines of citations as well as the first few lines
4429 It's often the case that the last sentence of a citation is what is
4430 being replied to directly, so the last few lines are often much more
4431 important. The number of lines shown at the beginning and end of any
4432 citation can be configured, (notmuch-show-citation-lines-prefix and
4433 notmuch-show-citation-lines-suffix).
4435 The '+' and '-' commands in the search view can now add and remove
4438 Selective bulk tagging is now possible by selecting a region of
4439 threads and then using either the '+' or '-' keybindings. Bulk
4440 tagging is still available for all threads matching the current
4441 search with the '*' binding.
4443 More meaningful buffer names for thread-view buffers
4445 Notmuch now uses the Subject of the thread as the buffer
4446 name. Previously it was using the thread ID, which is a meaningless
4449 Provide for customized colors of threads in search view based on tags
4451 See the documentation of notmuch-search-line-faces, (or us "M-x
4452 customize" and browse to the "notmuch" group within "Applications"
4453 and "Mail"), for details on how to configure this colorization.
4455 Build-system features
4456 ---------------------
4458 Add support to properly build libnotmuch on Darwin systems (OS X)
4460 Add support to configure for many standard options
4462 We include actual support for:
4464 --includedir --mandir --sysconfdir
4466 And accept and silently ignore several more:
4468 --build --infodir --libexecdir --localstatedir
4469 --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking
4471 Install emacs client in "make install" rather than requiring a
4472 separate "make install-emacs"
4474 Automatically compute versions numbers between releases
4476 This support uses the git-describe notation, so a version such as
4477 0.1-144-g43cbbfc indicates a version that is 144 commits since the
4478 0.1 release and is available as git commit "43cbbfc".
4480 Add a new "make test" target to run the test suite and actually
4483 Notmuch 0.1 (2010-04-05)
4484 ========================
4486 This is the first release of the notmuch mail system.
4488 It includes the libnotmuch library, the notmuch command-line
4489 interface, and an emacs-based interface to notmuch.
4491 Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or Xapian
4492 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether 1.0 or 1.1) had
4493 a performance bug that made notmuch very slow when modifying
4494 tags. This would cause distracting pauses when reading mail while
4495 notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing the "inbox" and "unread"
4496 tags from messages in a thread.
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